Ruth Yael
Earlier this week Stacey Ballis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cooking and fasting on Yom Kippur for the JBC/MJL Author Blog. Her newest book, Good Enough to Eat, will be available September 7th. I’ve long been fascinated with the relationship women have...
Retired Israeli Gen. Moshe Levy, whose acts of valor during the 1973 Yom Kippur War earned him his country’s highest military decoration, offered a personal account of Israel’s security needs as part of the third-annual Flamingo Film Festival in Toronto. Here...
The Man The Gulag Couldn’t Break By Steven Plaut Fall arrived late this year in Budapest, where I am visiting from Israel, and it is still very warm on Yom Kippur. The largest Orthodox Yom Kippur services in the city are being held in a downtown...
Editor’s Note: The following is the third winner of four recent entries by individual who will be heading to Washington, D.C. at the end of the month for JStreet’s first national conference: Driving Change, Securing Peace . The following...
AND THAT’S NOT ALL by Tamar Yonah, INN I knew that Paula Abdul was Jewish, but that she lights Shabbos Candles? So, not one just to complain and talk about negative things happening, I thought that I would write something more positive now. So...
SARID IS SITTING SHIVA ALREADY By Yossi Sarid, HAARETZ Mahmoud Abbas might as well be considered a dead man; Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak have killed him. Following a brief and angry meeting, they left a cyanide pill for him on the table and exited...
Between services this Yom Kippur, I attended a talk by a revered and learned elder in my community. Michael had a number of urgent messages to share with us that day. One of them was that the biblical story of Job never actually happened. “The Job...
Yoram Ettinger Assembled from various Jewish Sages 1. The US covenant with the Jewish State transcends contemporary policy. It precedes the establishment of Israel and the USA. Columbus Day is celebrated around Sukkot. According to “Columbus Then...
Vandalism put Jewish worshippers on edge last week when a synagogue and community center in the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Windsor Terrace was defaced just days before Yom Kippur. Here is the original post: Brooklyn Jewish Center Responds to Vandalism...
