Rachel Sharansky Danziger I was 4-years-old, and I struggled to spin my dreidel just so. I was 8-years-old, and my newest dreidel cast blue and green lights across the room. I was 10-years-old, and my sister and I spun dreidels as fast as we could. Who would get more of them to spin before the […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAA Reflection by David Gregory From American Jewish World Service Every winter, as the days shorten and darken, I look forward to Chanukah. The sight of the candles over eight nights helps us create those sacred moments that daily life so often crowds out. The flicker of the flame evokes history, identity, shared experience. I
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Jewish Religion, USAParents and residents are fuming after a Jerusalem community center announced that their annual Hanukka party will include a celebration for Mohammed and Santa Claus. Jerusalem’s French Hill community center traditionally holds a Hanukkah party for the community. However, residents were shocked to discover that this years party will include a celebration of Mohammed’s birthday
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — The following is an attempt to present just a few of the many reasons that contribute to a decline in numbers of the US Jewish population. Is being Jewish a religion or ethnicity? For many this is a confusing question, but it shouldn’t be. Jewish people are an
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, Jewish Religion, USAArriving in New York for a series of meetings in the US, Labor party leader Avi Gabbay attacked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Zionist Union is a joint list made up of Labor, MK Tzipi Livni’s defunct Hatnuah party, and the Green Movement. “Israel’s crisis with US Jewry is mostly the result of a
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAA Jewish skullcap that retailers are calling the world’s most expensive kippah has gone on sale for $167,000. It is capped with a two carat Russian diamond enclosed within a Star of David encrusted with more than 3,500 crystals and has been created in time for Hanukkah, known as the Jewish festival of lights, which
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Jewish Religion, Travel and FoodArchaeologists are finally uncovering the purpose of a massive cellar in Marseille, France, more than 20 years after its discovery. Following two weeks of intensive analysis, the local research team from the National Institute for Preventative Archeological Studies told a French news channel it’s likely a mikve, a ritual Jewish bath. “Every time I went
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International, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — According to an opinion poll just published in Yediot Achronot, Israel’s largest newspaper, more Israelis define themselves as Reform (7%) and Conservative (4%) when put together than the ultra-Orthodox haredim (10%). The largest number of religious Jews are Nationalist-Orthodox (29%). 44% of all Israelis don’t identify with any religious
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Jewish Religion, Middle East[youtube:2035417] Israel”s Chief Sephardic Rabbi visited Jewish communities in California during a recent trip to the west coast, a spokesperson for the rabbi reported Sunday. Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef met with members of local Jewish communities across Southern California, and lectured at the Yeshiva Gedolah of Los Angeles (YGLA). Rabbi Yosef was hosted by the
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAA fire broke out next to the tomb of Rebbe Nachman, founder of the Breslov Hassidic movement, in Uman, Ukraine on Tuesday. The blaze was first reported just after 10:00 a.m. local time in a building adjacent to the rabbi”s tomb, which has become a popular pilgrimage site, drawing tens of thousands of visitors each
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International, Jewish ReligionBy Moshe Dann JERUSALEM — Arm-twisting Israel by liberal and Progressive American Jews is threatening the delicate and vital bonds that link the two major Jewish communities. Oblivious to the consequences of creating dissension and unwilling to accept Israel’s separate and sovereign status, some Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders seem to be engaging in a
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAHundreds of Israeli Jews held a rare prayers session by a mosque in a Palestinian village on the occupied West Bank early Sunday, an AFP photographer said. The Israeli army accompanied busses carrying over 300 ultra-Orthodox men, mostly from the Breslov Hassidic sect, to Younis mosque in Halhul, north of Hebron, where according to Jewish
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe caves near the Dead Sea have been a source of constant debate for a long time now. A 12th cave was discovered in September 2017, which was used to house the ancient documents. Now, there might be a scientific way to figure out who once occupied a settlement located near the caves where the
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastFor years, Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz, 80, has been working to make the Jewish library accessible to every Jew and anywhere in the world. With his own hands the rabbi built a life project that continues gaining momentum from day to day. Today, much of the Talmud has already been translated into several languages, including
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