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Red String Bracelets Used as Amulets

Red string bracelets have been worn to protect against the evil eye and keep bad luck away. Madonna made these bracelets popular, and they were being sold at the Kabbalah Centre. [Cailin Acosta]

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Israeli Social Welfare Organization Opens Campaign to Help Youth Displaced by War with Hezbollah

The initiative focuses on Northern Israel’s hardest-hit communities, including Kiryat Shmona, Majdal Shams, the Mateh Asher and Upper Galilee regional councils, Mas’ade, and Ein Qiniyye, with a special emphasis on socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. (Press Release)

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JPAC Opposes Penalizing UCLA $1 Billion for Failing to Protect Jewish Students

Substantial work remains to effectively fight antisemitism on campus. However, cutting vital federal research funding or imposing a billion-dollar penalty would instead harm students, disrupt life-saving research, threaten economic growth, and undermine one of the nation’s most respected public university systems. [Press Release]

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Remembering Jan Genossar, Holocaust Survivor and Physics Professor, on the Centennial of His Birth

Having experienced the fear of persecution by executioners, he became the epitome of courage and bravery. Having learned what absolute evil was, he became an absolutely good man. [Alex Gordon]

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Tu B’Av, Jewish Day of Love, is Upon Us

The minor holiday of love (15th day of Av), Tu B’Av, starts Friday night and continues until Saturday night. Originally, a post-biblical day of joy, it used to be a day of matchmaking for unmarried women. Unmarried women would wear white and dance in the vineyards in search of a husband. (Cailin Acosta)

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Children’s Book Provides Gentle Introduction to Alzheimer’s

This book written for children 4 to 8 years of age portrays what happens to old people when their grasp on the present merges with their memories of the past. Without using the words, it is an introduction to “senility” and to “Alzheimer’s Disease.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Author Coburn to Discuss ‘Glimmer Factory’ at La Jolla Riford Library

RUTH: Remember Us The Holocaust’s Speaker Series presents author Jennifer Coburn at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, August 12, at the La Jolla Riford Library. USA Today Best-Selling Del Cerro author will discuss her latest historical book, The Girls of the Glimmer Factory. [Cailin Acosta}

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Hillel, Secure Community Network Urge Universities to Pay for Jewish Security Measures

“… We call on all universities and colleges with Hillels on campus to follow Harvard’s lead and cover security costs for their Hillels, especially given the threats to Jewish students across North America. No student should have to choose between their safety and fully participating in campus or religious life.” [Press Release]

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Book about David Weiss Halivni Can Prompt People to Consider Self-Improvement

He made two significant contributions to Jewish thought, both controversial and not accepted by all scholars, one dealing with the Talmud and the other with the Torah. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]

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David Weiss Halivni Examined the Presence of God at Mount Sinai and the ‘Revelation of Absence’ at Auschwitz

In his theological reflection on the Holocaust, David Weiss Halivni grapples with the haunting question of why God did not intervene in the Shoah. He dismisses the idea that the event was a punishment for sin, arguing that the scale of destruction was disproportionate to any conceivable transgression. Instead, Halivni connects the Holocaust to the concept of beḥirah ḥofshit (free will) and a historical shift in divine presence. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]

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