By Mr. Leonard Grunstein for Times of Israel Wake up! Don鈥檛 just stand there. The crying sounds of the Shofar shake our complacency. It鈥檚 a call to action during the ten-day period, beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending on Yom Kippur, known as the Days of Awe or the Ten Days of Repentance. Rosh鈥
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by MICHAEL BETTENCOURT on SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 路 LEAVE A COMMENT Dr. Ronnie Perelis is the Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and director of The Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs. This past August, he presented at鈥
A century ago, Rosh Hashanah in 1918 for Jews in the United States was different than any prior ones during the First World War. Until April 1917, American Jews had only been involved in the war as onlookers who worried about their fellow Jews suffering in the midst of the war in Eastern Europe ...
Geri Mansdorf grew up in Brooklyn and attended 黑料社 All High School for girls there. She has a masters degree in education and administration from the Azrieli Graduate School, and taught in the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach before coming to 黑料社 All. Geri's husband Asher is a ...
Camp Machanaim, 鈥渢he American Camp With Jewish Spirit鈥 for girls and boys was established in 1929 near Monticello, New York. The name Machanaim was consciously adopted from the biblical verse in Genesis, 鈥淎nd Jacob said when he saw them: `This is God鈥檚 camp.鈥 And he called the name of that place ...
Tu B鈥橝v (15 th day of the month of Av), the ancient holiday when young single women of Jerusalem danced in the vineyards hoping to find their mates, is historically a festive day when thoughts of young men and women turned to marriage. Today, Tu B鈥橝v is a popular time for weddings, which are ...
The New Lamentations = Megilat Ekhah ha-h蹋adashah = Di Naye Megilas Ekhah, a small, trilingual booklet in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish by Israel Fine, was published a century ago in 1917 as a fund-raising effort for the Central Relief Committee. Immediately after the outbreak of World War I, urgent鈥
by Leonard Grunstein Gaza is occupied by Gazans. Neither Egypt nor Israel, its territorial neighbors, occupy Gaza, as a matter of fact or law. Yet, the provocative terms 鈥渙ccupation鈥 and 鈥渙ccupier鈥 are casually used, by many in the news media and others, to describe the relationship between Gaza鈥