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At Israel’s airport, Ukrainian immigrants prepare to start their lives again – Haaretz

| March 16, 2022

Kate Sohorokova stood red-faced from weeping near Terminal 1 at Ben-Gurion International Airport, oblivious to the dozens of Orthodox high-school girls who had come to give a happy welcome to the immigrants. Im just a bit tired, she explained, flanked by her baby son and young daughter, just asthe days-long journey from Ukraine to Israel was ending.

When Miss Iraq met Miss Israel: War is a tragedy that has no winners – Mail and Guardian

| March 16, 2022

These are troubled and tragic times. After many years of peace, war has reared its evil head on the continent of Europe, bringing death, destruction and untold suffering to Ukraine.

Just like Israelis, the Russians love their children too – Haaretz

| March 16, 2022

Most Russians support this war. The Washington Post just published the results of a survey, according to which 58 percent of Russians support the war and only 23 percent oppose it

Next time Israelis talk about a world that closed its gates to refugees – Haaretz

| March 16, 2022

Never again. The world stood idly by

Paganism, Judaism and Christianity: Practices of Worship – The Great Courses Daily News

| March 16, 2022

By Bart D. Ehrman, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Christian Prayer Christian prayer, as was the case in all the other religions, involved praising God, thanking him for what he had done and would do, asking him for help in whatever situation one was facing. Yet, unlike pagans, one very important Christian prayer involved confessing ones sins

The first bat mitzvah was 100 years ago, and has been opening doors for Jewish women ever since – Jacksonville Journal-Courier

| March 16, 2022

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Violence And The Sacred – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| March 16, 2022

Why does Judaism include sacrifices? To be sure, they have not been part of the life of Judaism since the destruction of the Second Temple, almost two thousand years ago

Foreign Affairs Feature: The plight of Ethiopian Jews in Israel The Daily Free Press – Daily Free Press

| March 16, 2022

Between the 1980s and early 1990s, roughly 45,000 Ethiopian Jews fled to Israel following a military coup turned Marxist revolution in 1974. After years of worsening poverty and human rights violations at the hands of Emperor Haile Sellassie, the situation evolved into a years long civil war between the Derg the military junta and various groups of both communist and anti-communist ideology. At the time of Israels formation in 1948, Ethiopian Jews were not among those encouraged to return to what is considered the historic homeland of their faith.

Christmas and Easter are American holidays aren’t they? J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| March 16, 2022

Dear Dawn: Im trying to understand my Jewish girlfriends desire to not have American holidays, which she says are Christian. I said that Im willing to do the Jewish holidays in our home along with the regular American holidays of Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, etc

Ode To The Beholder – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| March 16, 2022

Its often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Why is that true? My ninth-grade students and I are currently learning Tractate Tamid


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