3+ hour, 15+ min ago  (976+ words) Few Jewish leaders have shaped modern Judaism more profoundly than the Lubavitcher Rebbe, my rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The Rebbe believed in the infinite value of every human being. He believed no one should ever be written off. He…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (518+ words) I never caught the jigsaw puzzle fever, but my sister is an avid assembler, and during covid my wife, Sharon, also it them up. Following their lead, I’ll try to construct a metaphoric jigsaw puzzle column, presenting three pieces of…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1074+ words) New Jersey Jewish News Years ago, when I was a kid, my maternal grandfather, a widower, lived with us. To be honest we lived in comfort, never deprived of life’s necessities, even if some luxuries were beyond us. So, while…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (314+ words) Since October 7, many American Jews have quietly found themselves asking loved ones a question that once seemed unthinkable: Is it time to leave? Yet it is hardly an easy time to be living in Israel, let alone making aliyah. Israelis…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (427+ words) “When God returned our exiled people, we were like dreamers.” In my house and thousands more, this verse from Shir Ha-ma’alot (Psalms 126:1) precedes reciting the Grace after Meals on Shabbat. Thirteen years ago, my wife and I became Israeli citizens....

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (223+ words) New Jersey Jewish News About 70 representatives from organized labor, Jewish organizations, civil rights and other community groups, and public officials broke matzah together at the annual New Jersey Labor Seder organized by the Jewish Labor Committee. The program was held…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (72+ words) New Jersey Jewish News The Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Raritan Valley Community College hosts an International Holocaust Remembrance Day webinar. It features Jörg Domes and Ingo Sielaff of Borken, authors of “Jewish Families in Borken,” a town…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (756+ words) When readers of the Atlanta Jewish Times opened their Passover edition last week, they saw something surprising. The leavened bread, which Jews do not eat on the holiday, was front and center in an ad placed by Nathalie Kanani, a…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1485+ words) There are lies that wound, and there are lies that kill. Few falsehoods in human history have proven as lethal, as enduring, and as morally catastrophic as the claim that the Jewish people killed Jesus. It is a charge that…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (202+ words) And so, his “coattails” extended to Harry S. Truman and Democrats to this day. Jews together with Afro-Americans are the most reliable voters for the Democratic party compared to any other voting bloc. Meanwhile, fueled by billions invested by Qatar,…...