Jewish organization hopes to bring a Holocaust educational center to Phoenix – The Arizona Republic
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As Holocaust survivors grow older, time is of the essence in preserving their stories.
Pokin Around: What kind of world is it where vaccines and masks are likened to Holocaust? – News-Leader
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I wonder what Elie Wiesel would have thought about Monday night's City Council meeting? About 15 people wore yellow starsto liken the oppression they say they feel as they resist COVID-19 vaccination and masking to the oppression that Jews felt during the Holocaust.
Rabbis Are Supposed to Offer Hope on the High Holidays. What if I Can’t? – Jewish Exponent
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Rabbi Rachel Barenblat By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat I was a writer before I became a rabbi, and High Holiday sermons usually come easily to me. Some years I have so many ideas and teachings and hopes to share that I accidentally write more sermons than I need to give. Not this year
A great leader dies — and with him, a whole generation – Religion News Service
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Rabbi Richard Hirsch, long time leader of Reform Judaism in the United States, Israel, and worldwide has died at the age of 95. But, this death was not his alone
Rabbi Yoel Kahn retires after 36 years of service to Bay Area Jews J. – The Jewish News of Northern California
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Thirty-six years after landing his first job out of rabbinical school, Rabbi Yoel Kahn has decided the time has come to retire. He had held multiple Bay Area pulpit and Jewish agency jobs over the decades, but since 2007 had served as senior rabbi at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley. And it was from that Reform pulpit he announced recently he would be stepping down.
Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman: The start of a new year can be both scary and exciting – GoErie.com
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Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman| Special to the Erie Times-News Jews celebrate the new year in much the same way as college students and public school teachers: in the fall. Our new year, called Rosh Hashana, is far more similar to the beginning of the academic year than it is to the secular new year. There is anxiety and trepidation about the coming year, like it was the first day of school, because we celebrate the day by reflecting on our past deeds and anticipating the future year to come
Q & A With Rabbi Ahron Rapps – Yated.com
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Question When someone dies, candles are lit in the house of the people sitting shivah. What is the connection between the neshomah of a person and candles
Earth Etude for Elul 10: Too Much of a Good Thing, or When All You’ve Ever Wanted Is Really Too Much – jewishboston.com
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While its always a good thing to conserve our blessings, setting up a water barrelphysical or metaphoricto save blessings like water against a future drought, its also important to express our gratitude and to savor the blessings we have received in life. The overgrown plants in my back yard may be feeling to me like just too muchbut when I give myself a chance to focus on them, I can be aware of the miracles present in my yard on an everyday basis.
Daily Joke: Priest Is Curious about a Sheet of Paper the Chief Rabbi Gives the Pope Every Year – AmoMama
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Every year, the Chief Rabbi visited Vatican City. On getting there, he would walk to where the Pope sits and stand there. For his visits, the Chief Rabbi always carried a linen bag and would give the Pope a worn-out and dusty piece of paper
I moved my family back in with my parents at the start of the pandemic. After a lovely year and a half, I’m rethinking the dream of the single-family…
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The author's two children in their grandparent's backyard. Rabbi Yael Buechler When the pandemic began, my husband and I left New York City with our two young sons to live with my parents. After almost a year and a half, we are finally moving out and back to the city
