A 12-year-old girl named Judith Kaplan Eisenstein became the first American girl to enjoy that rite of passage. Since then, nearly one million girls and women, including about 20,000 American girls annually, have marked their bat mitzvah.
The ACHI team created the hashtag #MyKlee, encouraging people to post pictures on Facebook and Instagram of their klees, filled with goods from Israel.
At the heart of Eger’s work is her desire to do good in the world.
Cotler blends traditional Jewish melodies with modern popular music to teach, inspire, heal and entertain. He has recorded six albums of original Jewish music and published two songbooks containing the songs from four of his recordings.
These vignettes from testimonies in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive bring just a few stories from these places to light. The words of survivors, as they often do, reach forward through time.
Five times a year – the High Holy Days, Hanukkah, Purim, Passover and Shavuot – the Fuerst-Hamburger team of volunteers sends thousands of packages around the world, to many of the 5,000 Jews in the U.S. military.
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