Over the years, mo-ed deedani was like an extended drop-in/ playdate/meet-and-greet, whether in my parents’ living room, my aunts’ or uncles’ living rooms, a huge synagogue social hall in Forest Hills, Queens, or outside, on the lawn of a park in Manhasset, New York.
Maybe it’s time for the government to cut its long string of provocations (from religious legislation to the legal reform) and move to dealing with security, cost of living, transportation, crime – the boring stuff for which a government is usually elected.
Israel is once again under attack. Leading up to the first few days of Passover, the commencement of Easter and the Ramadan, we sadly witnessed a return of violent acts in many forms against Israel.
Neuriel Shore, an observant Jew who is director for Greater Los Angeles at Jewish National Fund-USA, embraces the Omer as a time to reflect on his life and change his mindset
The virtual Passover seder, co-hosted by the White House and the US Department of Agriculture, brought together policymakers and Jewish community leaders to reflect on the themes of liberation and justice; more than 10% of Americans face food insecurity.
Netanyahu is being viewed differently by many Israelis, as a contributor to the security threats that Israel faces rather than its savior from them.
On April 19, 1943 Nazi forces entered the Warsaw Ghetto with the stated objective of rounding up and deporting all Jews there to death camps but were attacked by organized Zionist fighters.
For those concerned with the history of the Holocaust, Bermuda is remembered as the site of a notorious U.S.-British conference, eighty years ago this week.
Here, at this program run by the Hadar Institute and supported by the Maimonides Fund, teams of high schoolers took on the Beit Din role and adjudicated halachah.
I want to challenge Jewish community leaders and donors now to expand the March of the Living as fast as possible.
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