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Bris Avrohom Preps For High Holidays
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (155+ words) (Courtesy of Bris Avrohom) The Shulchan Aruch teaches that one should begin studying the laws of an upcoming holiday 30 days in advance. In keeping with this tradition, a five-week course on the halachot and mystical meanings behind the customs of…...
What Happens When Jews Don???t Fight
50+ min ago (287+ words) Central Synagogue, sadly, just proved my point. Instead of understanding this, rabbis, elected officials and Jewish community leaders spent the 48 hours after the attack applying all the familiar platitudes: Troubling. This is not normal. Jews do not need to feel…...
“The Hyphen”: Empower Students to Bridge Their Jewish and American Identities
31+ min ago (172+ words) Campus / Civic Life Students attend Campus Commons retreat for Jewish Student Leaders (Video Screengrab) “Are you a Jewish-American or an American-Jew?” American-Jews are trailblazers of commingling particularism and universalism in America, creating a pathway for our entire immigrant nation to…...
Thousands of Teens Gather in Israel to Celebrate Their Connection to Jewish Life — And Each Other
28+ min ago (592+ words) By 70 Faces Media More than 4,500 teens from North America and Israel gathered last month for an outdoor festival that some have described as “Israel’s teen Coachella.” Part music festival, part celebration and part networking event — featuring a musical performance from…...
How a 19th century murder introduced Americans to a Jewish funeral
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (348+ words) SERVING THE COMMUNITY FOR 49 YEARS HELP SUPPORT JEWISH JOURNAL The crime quickly attracted national attention as accounts proliferated, sometimes differing on details such as Jackson’s age. Reporters described the search for his body, the arrest of Charles Jones, known to…...
Vaught using basketball to make an impact
47+ min ago (629+ words) Vaught provides free program for local youth, using sport as productive outlet One of the Five Star Elite boys’ basketball teams, led by Derrick Vaught, on the court at a game. Derrick Vaught directs his players with the Five Star…...
How My Generation Became Antisemitic
46+ min ago (620+ words) As a high schooler, I can tell you the scale of antisemitism among my generation is far worse than any adult realizes. Among young men, a new, mainly right-wing brand of Jew-hatred has become omnipresent and is calcifying into an…...
New York has become 'Habibi City"
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (548+ words) Two great black squares that look like cosmic embrasures, where the Twin Towers once rose. The 9/11 Memorial is called “Reflecting Absence." The water, dense and dark, does not flow: it plunges. It falls without respite into the voids, in a…...
Comfort, Forgiveness and Joy
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (605+ words) Parshat Ki Teitzei “Roni akara—Sing out, O barren one,” “Pitzchi v’tzahali—Burst forth in song and be jubilant!” These clarion calls to Israel with which the Navi Yeshayahu opens our haftarah this week are truly unique cries. Consider: Throughout…...
Finding Holiness in Unexpected Places
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (1039+ words) During a family trip to northern Israel recently, two images caught my attention. The first was in Tzfat. We have all seen many moving and creative memorial projects, but this was something new. At the entrance to a coffee shop…...