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The greatest joy
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (21+ words) Real time news brief - The greatest joy - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site...
Shabbat Shalom to The Mighty Few
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (30+ words) Real time news brief - Shabbat Shalom to The Mighty Few - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Shabbat Shalom to The Mighty Few...
Shabbat Shalom to The Mighty Few - Trying to send some positivity into the world
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (1559+ words) Every Friday afternoon my phone begins to light up. Since October 7th 2023 and through the sustained amplification of hate and racism that has followed, these messages have become something more than ritual. Three years ago, there were a handful, today, there…...
Sandy Leigh’s aliyah journey from Texas to Jerusalem
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (782+ words) One day in Jerusalem, I walked by a woman and stopped to ask about her extraordinary hat. The magnificence of the style and the colors in juxtaposition to the country's constantly changing emotional landscape caught my imagination. Originally created in…...
Book Review: The Jewish Leadership in Hungary and the Holocaust
4+ hour, 4+ min ago (172+ words) In his recent book published by Yad Vashem titled Bereft of Council: The Jewish Leadership in Hungary and the Holocaust, 19441945, L'szl" Bern't Veszpr'my, who earned his PhD at the Doctoral School of Cultural History at E'tv's Lor'nd University, presents a…...
Why I call myself a Zionist in modern Israel
4+ hour, 43+ min ago (827+ words) In many of my jobs I've held over the years, I've had the opportunity to interview executives, mostly not Jewish, overseas, on the phone or via Zoom. I would do my best not to indicate where I was based, other…...
A Childhood in Jewish New Orleans
5+ hour, 4+ min ago (247+ words) I can see that one might read this and ask, Why not just convert? Part of the answer is that in New Orleans, at least our New Orleans, everybody knew everybody else, going back for at least two generations. There…...
Saturday after Ash Wednesday
9+ hour, 4+ min ago (651+ words) Reading 1 Isaiah 58:9b-14 Thus says the LORD:If you remove from your midst oppression,false accusation and malicious speech;If you bestow your bread on the hungryand satisfy the afflicted;Then light shall rise for you in the darkness,and the…...
3162) Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust (1/2)
9+ hour, 58+ min ago (644+ words) " " "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we say as we bury our dead. "Ashes and dust, two powerful Biblical images of our mortality. "And now, even as we look forward to Spring when everything comes to life, the church year…...
Collapsed Mahanoy City synagogue recalls an era when Jewish temples thrived in Schuylkill County
10+ hour, 4+ min ago (986+ words) MAHANOY CITY " When Bernard Shanfield made one of his weekly checks on Beth Israel Synagogue in May 1997, paint was peeling off its walls and some of the bulbs on its twin menorahs had burned out. Shanfield, the temple's president, was…...