Amid Israel’s Political Chaos, There are Still Family and Household Concerns

Being hugged and kissed by each and every one as they came into the house was heart-warming, especially to experience our nine-year-old granddaughter hurling herself into our arms and telling us that she had missed us, as well as to meet our newest grandchild, four month-old Emily. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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‘[title of show]’ Unorthodox but Singing and Acting Excel

They poke fun at themselves and even say how they’re going to include each conversation they have back into the show, and they do.  I guess that as they got producers, and staging they just added it into the show, so that it was almost a live running commentary on the process. [Sandi Masori]

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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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OpEd: Real Goal of PA and Hamas is the Killing of Israeli Jews

It’s a fact that more than 71% of Israelis, and our terrorist antagonists, do not want “two states side by side living in peace.” It’s a Western delusion to think Muslim terrorists will settle for that. Hamas and the PLO both insist on the extirpation of Israel – their topmost goal. [Steve Kramer]

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Jewish Biography: Semyon Frank, Religious Philosopher

In the collection Landmarks (1909), which became an important event in the history of Russian philosophical thought, Frank published an article The Ethics of Nihilism, where he criticized the “nihilistic moralism” characteristic of the Russian radical intelligentsia and opposed it with a call for “creative, culture-building religious humanism.” [Alex Gordon]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Lotte Jacobi

Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]

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