Inside the sukkah: Reflected light
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2015
What is it about lights twinkling in the darkness that is so…transporting?
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September 24, 2015
Hebrew word of the week: Sukkot
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2015
“Sukkot holiday” (Yiddish sukes)\n
Senate blocks Republican bill denying Planned Parenthood funds
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2015
The Senate on Thursday stopped an effort by Republicans to deny federal funding for women\’s healthcare provider Planned Parenthood as part of a bill keeping government agencies operating on Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year.
The value of touch
David Suissa
September 24, 2015
The very root of the holiday is in agriculture, humanity’s most fundamental, tactile, life-giving activity.
Hillary Clinton’s pro-Israel policy
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2015
In case you missed it, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently gave a foreign policy speech worthy of a president.
The Republican debate’s $10 question
Rob Eshman
September 24, 2015
The easiest question of the second Republican presidential debate turned out to be the hardest: “Which woman would you put on the $10 bill?
Israeli ministry plows ahead with ‘world Jewry’ project, even as funding and future remain uncertain
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2015
With a budget reaching $300 million, it was conceived as a broad partnership between the Israeli government and leading Diaspora Jewish groups.
Trump rally incident, Carson anti-Muslim remarks spur civility call by 2 Jewish groups
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2015
Two Jewish groups pleaded for greater civility in political discourse after the loyalty of American Muslims was called into question during the Republican presidential campaign.
Tivnu: Buiding justice and shelters from the storm
Jewish Journal
September 24, 2015
When I describe Tivnu: Building Justice, the social-justice startup founded by my friend Steve Eisenbach-Budner, to people who know him, this is what I say: If you turned Steve into a nonprofit, Tivnu is what it would look like.
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