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.
We juggle our duties as the days and nights require, our family’s interests at heart.
For Rachel and I, interviewing Chef Shimi Aaron at last week’s WIZO Queen Esther Purim Luncheon was like reuniting with a long-lost brother.
Ensuring that our behavior is equal to our values is a good message for all Jews in all places.
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.
The fire that broke out in the Judean Hills last summer raged in areas where extensive efforts had been made to prevent fires. So what went wrong, and how can the next big fire be prevented?
“Recently, the Sierra Club hastily made a decision, without consulting a robust set of stakeholders, to postpone two planned outings to Israel,” he said. “The process that led to this was done in ways that created confusion, anger, and frustration.
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