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Facebook has a new prayer feature. But is it made for Jews? J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| August 29, 2021

After her daughter was killed in a drive-by shooting earlier this year and her son began using drugs to cope with the pain, one mother was overwhelmed. Unsure what to do or how to help, she posted about it on Wednesday in PRAYER WARRIORS, a Christian Facebook group with over 827 thousand members, requesting prayers for her son to get sober. Within an hour, there were over 100 comments beneath her post, most reading simply prayers or praying, as the group rallied around her as they do each day for dozens of members requesting prayers for illness, help through hardship, or even good luck for taking a test

Work begins to partially renovate hazardous bridge to Temple Mount – The Times of Israel

| August 29, 2021

Vital repair work began Sunday to a bridge that serves as the sole entry point for Jews and non-Muslim tourists to Jerusalems Temple Mount, due to a risk of collapse. The start of maintenance work on the Mughrabi Bridge was announced by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which said it would take a few days to complete

YOM KIPPUR: Why we keep asking for forgiveness, year after year J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| August 29, 2021

When I worked at the Oakland Tribune, a copy editor with a drinking problem had been harassing me. Under his breath, Bill (not his real name) would utter, Janet Janet in a creepy voice. He would try to distract me from my writing.

Jack Hirschman, SF poet laureate and ‘bad Jew,’ dies at 87 J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| August 29, 2021

Legendary working-class poet Jack Hirschman, a longtime denizen of North Beach who once described himself as a bad Jew, died on Aug.

Pope Francis urged to clarify comments on Torah and Jewish law – Jewish News

| August 29, 2021

Israels Chief Rabbinate has asked Pope Francis to retract a recent comment about Jewish law that it said might lead Catholic listeners to derogatory conclusions about Jews. Rabbi Ratzon Arusi, chair of the Chief Rabbinates Commission for Interreligious Affairs, sent a letter to the Vatican expressing concerns about an Aug. 11 lecture there on God giving the Torah to the Jews, Reuters reported Wednesday.

Letters to the Editor August 30, 2021: Biden’s big boondoggle – The Jerusalem Post

| August 29, 2021

Bidens big boondoggleIt was disappointing to read the usually insightful and intelligent Amotz Asa-El apparently believing the lies being peddled by the Biden administration to try to cover for their incredibly incompetent and poorly planned pull-out from Afghanistan (The will to fight: A users manual, August 20). To say that the Afghans had no will to fight is to deny the fact that they lost somewhere between 50,000 to 70,000 of their own troops in recent years, as they did the fighting while Western forces provided backup.


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