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Newman said the mainstreams of the Jewish and Christian communities, both Democrats and Republicans, and U.S. churches are generally supportive of Israel.

An array of Jewish groups across the country are kickstarting into action to protest and potentially challenge the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

For many American Jews, the concept of a shemittah (or Sabbatical) year may sound like a mystical event in a land far away.

While long needed in the community, where people are too far to walk to the city’s other mikvahs, YINBH’s basement mikvah has been in the works since 2006, when the concrete for the mikvah’s floor was first poured, Dunner told the Journal.

In a fractured world, it was refreshing to see women who represented a broad religious and political spectrum in their private as well as public lives.

The 10-day trip called the “Shoshana Mission” was organized by the Los Angeles-based “Persian American Civic Action Network” (PACAN).