The AJWS — which supports anti-poverty and community support projects in developing nations — is believed to be the only Jewish organization that funds projects in Afghanistan, a country controlled by the fundamentalist Islamic Taliban regime since 1996.
At the start of the Jewish year last Rosh Hashana, American Jews seemed on the cusp of fulfilling all their dreams. This year the major terrorist attack on American soil will no doubt have overshadowed every other event of the year.
The Borough Park section of Brooklyn is one of America\’s most visibly Jewish neighborhoods.
On several residential blocks of one- and two-family brick homes, almost every front door has a mezuzah. Modestly dressed women push strollers, while girls in dresses and boys in tzitzit and kippot play on the sidewalks. Sixteenth Avenue, one of the main drags, is lined with religious study centers and yeshivot, small synagogues and Judaica stores.
And in the middle of it all is an agency that runs a treatment program for Orthodox Jewish pedophiles.
A women\’s tefillin set with a beaded velvet box and blue satin straps.
A silver \”Kiddush\” cup in which ceremonial wine passes through a delicately crafted silver net formed from the Hebrew word for \”blessed.\”
A sukkah with brightly painted walls made of the long, plastic
strips found in industrial-sized refrigerators — and furnished with stools and a mirrored table symbolizing the self-reflection expected during the High Holy Days.
Jennifer Kessler always knew she would spend a year between high school and college studying at a girls\’ yeshiva in Israel.
Results of the two new studies are mixed enough that translating them into policy recommendations will not be easy.
Regardless of whether the mother is Jewish, most interfaith families — even those raising their children as Jews — incorporate substantial Christian celebrations into their lives, often including more Christian aspects as the couple and their children age.
According to a new study, however, most American Jews not only don\’t know it\’s Hebrew but aren\’t even familiar with the term tikkun olam.
Michele Frankel of Fort Lee, N.J., wants her fifth-grade son, Roger, to get a Jewish education, but she also wants him to be able to go to baseball practice and complete his regular-school homework.
A physician might be queen of the operating room, or a lawyer king of the courtroom, but put them up on a bimah, and without some serious background, they\’ll feel fumbling, foreign and clueless.