Our communities\’ leadership has to absorb the reality that the next generation of open-minded young people sees diversity as a plus, not as a burden to be overcome.
Students at the Hand in Hand Max Rayne Bilingual School in Jerusalem didn\’t know they were meeting a celebrity. They weren\’t born when the films \”Officer and a Gentleman\” and \”Terms of Endearment\” garnered Debra Winger her Oscar nominations.
In 1886, Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia, wrote the words to Israel\’s national anthem, \”Hatikvah.\” Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia, wrote the melody
This time of year, we know that you are seeing signs everywhere about the upcoming presidential election. So many people, so many numbers; we think you should know what it all means.
It was a given that Benjy Rabin, 9, would spend part of his summers at Camp Ramah as soon as he was old enough. His father is a Ramah alum, and so are his older brother and sister.
It\’s the same problem every year: There are a million songs about Xmas and three about Chanukah. OK, maybe not quite that, but you get the idea. In a world where \”Chanukah O\’ Chanukah\” and \”I Had a Little Dreidel\” just won\’t do, songwriter Adam Chester created a holiday miracle: a real Chanukah song that is being played on the radio that you and your parents can sing — together: \”Eight Days and Nights.\”
t\’s not Jets and Sharks, nor Bloods and Crips, but . . .\n\nTwo Israeli cliques somehow manage to \’just get along\’ in this hiphop music video from rappers Gad Elbaz and Alon de Loco
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