admin | March 30, 2024
Last week, the somber news emerged that Major Daniel Perez, previously reported as a hostage, was tragically no longer among the living. Our hearts go out to his parents, Rabbi Doron Perez, and his wife, Shelly.
admin | March 30, 2024
(March 27, 2024 / JNS) KADIMA-ZORAN, IsraelWalking cane in hand, the small elderly man hovers over the two fresh graves, gingerly watering the potted plants adorning them. He straightens the pictures of the young men, arranges the stones and mementos, and cleans off the tombstones. I know what pain is, Yaakov Lubinewski, 99, whose entire family was murdered by the Nazis eight decades ago, told a freshly bereaved Israeli father nearly six months ago in the aftermath of Hamass Oct
admin | March 13, 2024
Not long after Feigele (Vladka) Peltels father died of pneumonia in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, the 17-year-old found herself at a lecture about Yiddish author I.L. Peretz hosted by her social democratic youth group, Tsukunft (The Future). She doesnt precisely remember the talk, but she does recall the energy in the room
admin | March 5, 2024
Kol Israel Foundation will host a panel discussion about Talking to Children About the Holocaust and Modern-Day Antisemitism at 7 p.m. March 14 at Bnai Jeshurun Congregation at 27501 Fairmount Blvd. in Pepper Pike.
admin | March 5, 2024
The same family has owned the Good Family Residence in West Covina since its completion in 1961. (Photo by Gavin Cater) The kitchen. (Photo by Gavin Cater) The carport.
admin | February 27, 2024
Jon Stewart Takes on 'Something Light': Israel and Gaza The New York Times
admin | January 13, 2024
The two major branches Despite the fundamental uniformity of medieval Jewish culture, distinctive Jewish subcultures were shaped by the cultural and political divisions within the Mediterranean basin, in which Arabic Muslim and Latin Christian civilizations coexisted as discrete and self-contained societies. Two major branches of rabbinic civilization developed in Europe: the Ashkenazic, or Franco-German, and the Sephardic, or Andalusian-Spanish. Distinguished most conspicuously by their varying pronunciation of Hebrew, the numerous differences between them in religious orientation and practice derived, in the first instance, from the geographical fountainheads of their culturethe Ashkenazim (plural of Ashkenazi) tracing their cultural filiation to Italy and Palestine and the Sephardim (plural of Sephardi) to Babyloniaand from the influences of their respective immediate milieus
admin | December 15, 2023
Elstree and Shoham: Sharing the light during dark days The Movement for Reform Judaism
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