She followed her heart to her true faith
Kylie Ora Lobell
May 21, 2015
I’m sitting in a plush rocking chair underneath a large painting of Jesus in my grandma’s living room.
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Holidays
Blintzes and beyond for Shavuot
Judy Zeidler
May 21, 2015
The holiday of Shavuot marks the receiving of the Ten Commandments by Moses, but it’s also a kind of Jewish Thanksgiving, when farm bounty and grains — “first fruits” — were brought to the temple.
On Shavuot, reopening the book
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2015
On Shavuot, which this year falls on May 23, we celebrate the day that we received the Torah on Mount Sinai more than 3,300 years ago.
Shaharit: A safe place for all sides of Israel’s arguments
Jared Sichel
April 23, 2015
At lunch in Tel Aviv over Passover, Eilon Schwartz brimmed with enthusiasm as he described Shaharit, the Israeli think tank he founded in 2012.
Letter to a Brave daughter
Jewish Journal
April 23, 2015
My very dear Ariella,\n\nI haven’t seen you since August 2014 and, with all hyperbole aside, it really does seem like forever. You made the decision to join the Israel Defense Forces and, despite my initial reservations, you persevered and followed your dream.
Sometimes Israel really does feel like the center of the earth
Jared Sichel
April 23, 2015
On the final night of Passover, I sat with my relatives in a tiny but warm apartment in Haifa, 11 of us packed tightly around a table in a sort of French-Israeli-American melting pot of a family reunion.
Passing an art legacy on to the next generation
Jewish Journal
April 17, 2015
During the lengthy visits she would have with her great-uncle and great-aunt, David and Rivka Labkovski, at their home in South Africa, Leora Raikin — who was a young girl at the time — recalls these relatives being a bit eccentric.
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