Since Cohen is a ba’al teshuva, he has experienced both a secular and a religious life, and he uses that experience in his work.
With all this pressure to be equal to our wealthy peers, coupled with the high costs of housing, gas and food, it may feel like you can never get ahead.
A common critique of religion is that it exists only to blunt our fear of death through the deployment of comforting fairytales, replacing life’s great and unsettling unknowns with visions of an afterlife which are — if not less unsettling — at least less unknown.
“Our members have cast a clear vote to answer the call for solidarity from Palestinian scholars and students experiencing violations of their right to education and other human rights,” MESA President Eve Troutt Powell said in a statement.
The funds are earmarked to support care and provide services for frail and vulnerable Holocaust survivors, the Claims Conference announced in a statement.
Some of the participants included Saint Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, Saint Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Los Angeles, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Adat Shalom, Temple Beth Am, HIAS, Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, Temple Isaiah and Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
Israel’s top early-stage accelerator, Fusion works with early-stage founders to provide institutional capital and a support system to scale their company in the United States.
Nowruz is a huge deal, celebrated by over 300 million, from Parsi populations in India to Kurds in Iraq and Uighurs in China to Persian Jews in L.A.
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