Walking the walk is leaving Yom Kippur services with a bit more patience as the traffic in the parking lot begins to build up. Walking the walk is seeing the person with whom we disagree and offering a humbling hello.
While employed at his father’s Chabad center, he filled his spare time honing his martial arts skills at local gyms. “One day a gym owner asked me to be a sponsored fighter for local competitions. From then on, my interest in martial arts grew even stronger,” Eilfort said.
Along with speaking one-on-one with patients and families, Hepner ran a 12-hour program for 40 of his colleagues in his unit at the hospital that informed them about the vaccine.
In a September 2 letter to Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Yee wrote that while she appreciated Unilever’s opposition to boycotts of Israel, the fact is that Ben & Jerry’s is in violation of Arizona’s anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) law.
The yearly sermon, which is the brainchild of synagogue founder Rabbi David Baron, invites extraordinary individuals, Jewish or not, who uphold values of freedom and courage to connect with worshippers through a shared humanity.
Their daughter, Pat, was abandoned by Beverly’s father soon after she was born, so she returned to her parents farm, where little Beverly grew up surrounded by her aunts and uncles. She remembers that her grandfather rode a horse and buggy, selling chickens house to house.
Why does the Day of Judgment precede the Day of Atonement?
The juxtaposition of Durban and 9/11 was a dark omen for the future of the virus of antisemitism, which officially mutated in order to win the support of the Enlightened western masses.
Why the riots happened when Arab Israelis seem to be progressing towards better integration and a more comfortable state of coexistence? No one can say for sure, but a fast-spreading culture of violent crime is certainly a contributing factor.
The sentiment (or lack thereof) isn’t a product of the smartphone format. I’ve been receiving phone calls or having awkward in-person conversations of a similar nature for years. You’re put on the spot by a friend, family member or acquaintance—perhaps you don’t even remember the person’s name—to grant their atonement so they can be sealed in the Book of Life for another year.
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