Bracelet Bandwagon
\”People wear this jewelry to make a statement,\” Yael Swerdlow said, \”and we hope to make ours.\”
\”People wear this jewelry to make a statement,\” Yael Swerdlow said, \”and we hope to make ours.\”
The fish was the ugliest I had ever seen. I actually recoiled as my son proudly pointed him out in the aquarium. He loves fish.
I have devoted almost my entire professional career to fostering interfaith understanding, respect and cooperation.
When we arrive in heaven, the talmudic sages wondered, what will God ask of us?
For millions of American Jews, the official end of the summer season brings with it an important new beginning. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, ushers in the holiest period of the Jewish calendar.
There seems to be an unwritten rule that states: \”If you are going through a convulsive experience, you ought to be open to those with equally or more compelling issues.\” Whatever happened to: \”Put your own mask on first, then, tighten the straps before you try to assist others\”?
There are only two ways to ever make peace in the Middle East, and both are extreme. One is for one side to obliterate the other in a military conquest. The other, far more favorable approach, is for an unrelated third party to broker peace. For this to succeed, this person must come with absolutely no agenda — not one of country, religion, politics or money. Just peace.
Nearly 60 years ago, out of the ashes of the Holocaust, thousands of Jews came with not much more than the shirts on their backs to a land recognizable only as a collective and distant memory.