admin | March 29, 2022
In the summer of 1970, 21-year-old American college student David Biale volunteered on Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in northern Israel.
admin | March 29, 2022
Do what I say and not what I do, seems to be the catchphrase for the newest season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The fourth season sees comedy prodigy Miriam Midge Maisel rejecting the rules of a mans world and attempting to have it all her Upper West Side lifestyle, her job and her familys approval as she attempts to make it in standup
admin | March 29, 2022
Gribetz at the tomb of Helena of Adiabene in Jerusalem. Photo courtesy of GribetzJerusalems history is abundant with stories about powerful men, but often leaves out the voices of its women, said Fordham professor Sarit Kattan Gribetz. In her new book Jerusalem: A Feminist History, Gribetz is documenting the citys history with a focus on the women who helped bring Jerusalem to life
admin | March 29, 2022
The best Seniors Festival experiences are to be found in our very own Jewish community. Judaism teaches us to respect and revere our elders, and as a result we offer some of the best services for seniors
admin | March 29, 2022
Earlier this week, four Israelis were killed, and several others were injured, in a terrorist stabbing attack at a shopping center and gas station in Beer Sheva. Beautiful, innocent souls, guilty only of being Jewish and living in the one and only Jewish homeland, were murdered in cold blood, reminding us yet again how our brothers and sisters in Israel live daily with threats and dangers
admin | 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
admin | 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
admin | March 16, 2022
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admin | 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.
admin | 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
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