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Thousands of Teens Gather in Israel to Celebrate Their Connection to Jewish Life — And Each Other
1+ hour, 17+ 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…...
Editorial: Too Jewish to Publish
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (437+ words) Something deeply troubling is happening in American publishing. What may have begun as hostility toward Israel and Zionism increasingly appears to be bleeding into something broader: discomfort with Jews and Jewish identity itself. The evidence is becoming difficult to dismiss....
Opinion: Don’t Turn Away From Israel and Jewish People — This Is the Time to Lean in and Double Down
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (378+ words) These concerns are real, and they deserve honest discussion and debate. Friends and family can disagree on these issues while remaining committed to Israel’s future. Faced with these pressures, some have begun to distance themselves. They reduce their support for…...
D'var Torah: No One Left by the Roadside
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (348+ words) By Rabba Daphne Lazar Price This week’s Torah portion is Shoftim: Deuteronomy 16:18 — 21:9 At first glance, Parshat Shoftim seems like a patchwork of unrelated laws: judges and kings, prophets and witnesses, cities of refuge, the conduct of war, and the ritual…...
Opinion: A Maimonides Statue in Córdoba Was Defaced. The Rambam’s Writings Have an Answer To Hate.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (545+ words) By Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, July 31 into August 1, someone crept into the Plaza de Tiberíades in the old Jewish quarter of Córdoba, Spain and sprayed a swastika across the base of the bronze statue…...
Rabbi Emily Stern: Leads Kol HaLev and Deepens Her Love of Judaism
1+ week, 2+ day ago (749+ words) For Rabbi Emily Stern of Kol HaLev, it’s a bit more nuanced than simply saying she “always” wanted to be a rabbi. “There are always moments you can look back on and find threads of anything. Looking back through the lens…...
Joan Grayson Cohen Sets Retirement, Reflects on Decades of Service at JCS
1+ week, 3+ day ago (701+ words) Last month, Joan Grayson Cohen, executive director of Jewish Community Services, announced on social media she will retire in July 2027. By the time she retires, Cohen will have spent 33 years at JCS, starting at the agency when it operated as…...
D'var Torah: The Meaning of the Mezuzah
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (187+ words) By Rabbi Geri Newburge This week’s Torah portion is Re’eh: Deuteronomy 11:26 — 16:17 It is impossible to deny the Temple’s paramount status in Jewish text and thought over the centuries. We recently commemorated the destruction of both Temples with the observance of…...
Editorial: When Hatred Stops Shocking Us
2+ week, 1+ day ago (268+ words) Societies do not become tolerant of hatred overnight. They get there gradually, as prejudice becomes familiar, outrage fades and decent people convince themselves that someone else will deal with the problem. That is the most troubling lesson from a new…...
Opinion: Jewish Families are Refusing to Retreat
2+ week, 1+ day ago (659+ words) At the Yael Foundation, we recently analyzed data from our global network of 145 Jewish educational institutions spanning 48 countries, and the findings are striking. Despite, or perhaps due to, the pressures facing the Jewish world today, more than half (52%) of our…...