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The Jerusalem Post
2024-05-01
My neighbor sat shiva during the week . Through her
My neighbor sat shiva during the week . Through her late mother’s family, she is a 7th-generation Jerusalemite, now residing in Shiloh. She is now a grandmother and so the generations extend. Her roots in the Land of Israel go back some 140 years, as her family was from the group known as the “students of the Gra,” the Gaon Eliyahu of Vilna. Addit...
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2024-04-26
As the war has taken its toll on us all
As the war has taken its toll on us all in one way or another, just existing from day to day is enough of a challenge for many. Processing the enormity of the tragedy that has befallen us as a country, a nation, and a people, as well as actively participating in the war effort is something that takes time, patience, and strength – attributes that ...
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2024-04-16
‘Together, we will win” is a slogan that has been
‘Together, we will win” is a slogan that has been spoken by the citizens of Israel since the beginning of the war that calls for unity. However, it is important to remember that there is also an international audience to whom this call for unity appeals. Since , another front has been opened – on the international level, in which Diaspora Jews and...
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2024-04-05
What do Ukraine’s President and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog have
What do Ukraine’s President and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog have between them? Believe it or not – a Torah Scroll. Recently completed in Jerusalem the new scroll will be transferred in coming months to Kyiv’s Great Synagogue JCC, Beit Menachem. Zelensky wrote the first letter in the scroll, and Herzog the last, though one suspects that Herzog ...
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2024-03-31
The penultimate stop on my latest spring North American tour
The penultimate stop on my latest spring North American tour was Rochester, New York. Before speaking to the community about internalized anti-Jewishness, I had lunch with some of the Federation staff. There I met a young Israeli, Ron Kronberger Netzer. He was spending a year in the US on the ShinShinim program, a project where young Israelis spen...
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The Jerusalem Post
2024-03-25
The conventional wisdom of the day is that are terrible
The conventional wisdom of the day is that are terrible at advocacy. This is the explanation offered to explain why Hamas sympathizers are running circles around the Jews in the current public relations war. But this adage is just not true. Jews were instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, demanding equal righ...
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2024-02-25
The book Front Page brings you modern Israel''s extraordinary history
The book Front Page brings you modern Israel''s extraordinary history as it was captured on the front pages of The Jerusalem Post. We selected Jerusalem Post Front pages, drawn from 1932 through to today. These pages represent some of the most significant and thrilling moments in our country's evolution and the historic achievements of the Jewish p...
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The Jerusalem Post
2024-02-24
reflects the fusion of worldly influences in Israeli society and
reflects the fusion of worldly influences in Israeli society and thousands of years of Jewish tradition, to which some artists feel deeply connected, while others are completely detached from it. This world is vibrant and colorful, but it has also expressed conflict with the difficult Israeli reality. Quoting Amitai Mendelsohn, senior curator for ...
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The Jerusalem Post
2024-02-17
Conversations around the dinner table, both in Israel and abroad,
Conversations around the dinner table, both in Israel and abroad, take on special meaning during a period in which there are questions and fear about how this current will play out for Jews in Israel, as well as for Jews living in the Diaspora. The combination of this unprecedented war in Israel, together with a hike in antisemitism worldwide that...
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The Jerusalem Post
2024-02-17
I recently had the privilege of participating in the pilot
I recently had the privilege of participating in the pilot cohort of Birthright Israel’s latest staff training initiative, the Educators Forum, in Israel. The goal of the program was to bring together an experienced group of Jewish professionals – US and Canadian staff members and Israeli tour educators – so that together we could bear witness to t...
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