admin | April 13, 2022
As we gather around our seder tables this week, we encourage serious discussion about the reported atrocities being perpetrated by the Russian war machine against defenseless civilians in Ukraine. According to reports, Russian forces have left a shocking trail of death in their wake.
admin | April 13, 2022
The Jewish Museum London has appointed Frances Jeens as its director as part of its 90th anniversary celebrations. Jeens has been the museums interim director for two years and guided the organisation through the Covid pandemic.
admin | April 13, 2022
6326-6330 North Washtenaw Avenue (Google Maps) The closed former home of St. Timothys parish in Chicagos West Ridge neighborhood will soon get a new life as a Jewish elementary school. Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Elementary School bought the property at 6326-6330 North Washtenaw Avenue for $2.95 million, Block Club Chicago reported.
admin | April 13, 2022
Photographer Zion Ozeris new Passover Haggadah, Pictures Tell, is a journey of images documenting Jewish life worldwide. The 76-page Haggadah, published by Gefen Publishing House, was edited by Joshua Feinberg and Sara Wolkenfeld, and includes Ozeris photos from his decades of travel
admin | April 13, 2022
Rabbi Abe Friedman By Rabbi Abe Friedman Passover Of all the great seder experiences I have had, the year that sticks in my mind is 2006. My parents put me and my wife Rebecca in charge of planning the seder, and we decided that, on the first night, after the opening rituals of karpas (dipping vegetables) and yachatz (breaking the middle matzah), we would set aside the Haggadah for a while and let my father simply tell the Exodus story to my nephews, 7 and 3 at the time, who were the only children present. No one was better suited to fill this role.
admin | April 13, 2022
By Ruthie Blum At a Tel Aviv caf on April 11, I overheard a couple talking about the terrorist surge responsible for the fact that the normally packed establishment was as relatively empty as the adjacent Carmel Market. On such a beautiful day, and with Passover fast approaching, both venues ought to have been teeming with Israelis taking a time out from grocery shopping to sip espresso in the sun
admin | April 13, 2022
Without the Jews the world would have been a radically different place. What values are essential for the proper functioning of society? If you were to ask the average person on the street, good chance theyd mention these five: These values are so essential and obvious to us today that we might assume that theyve always been part of society throughout human history.
admin | April 13, 2022
Joint List party leader Aymen Odeh on Monday doubled down on his call to Arab Israelis not to serve in the security forces operating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, now also calling on Jewish Israelis to refuse to do so. Odeh caused outrage on Sunday when he said Arab Israelis serving in the security forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem were humiliating their own people and called on them to throw down their weapons and quit.
admin | April 3, 2022
NEW YORK (VINnews) Eliya Haliwa, who married a member of a Syrian Jewish family in Brooklyn last October, was exposed immediately after the wedding as a Shiite Muslim from Lebanon. The revelation led to a huge controversy and calls for more stringent investigation of peoples Jewish lineage before allowing them to wed. Haliwa himself was forced to leave his new wife and even though he wished to convert to Judaism, the Syrian Jewish community maintains a longstanding ban on accepting Jewish converts
admin | April 3, 2022
In March, Noah Jacob took his team on his dream trip to New York: A five-day tour of New Yorks iconic Jewish delis, bakeries, and restaurants. They ate bagels and bialys at Kossars, kishke and chopped liver at Katz, smoked fish at Barney Greengrass, knishes at Yonah Schimmels. And of course, they took the obligatory trip to Zabars, strolling the aisles of the famous Upper West Side market and bakery, peering in the deli cases and watching gloved men slice sable.
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