Charity on the Kinneret: Tiberias Soup Kitchen Serves Hot Food Seasoned with Kindness Meir Panim’s Tiberias Free Restaurant not only provides warm meals, but the opportunity to socialize as well.
Netanyahu Talks Tough On Iran, Leaves Door Open To Diplomatic Solution
Posted on: October 2nd, 2013
News & Views → Middle East → IranWASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a blunt speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, warned that Israel was ready to go it alone against Iran should it come close to obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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The Rabbi Wore Battle Fatigues
Posted on: October 2nd, 2013
InDepth → Front PageDuring the Yom Kippur War and its immediate aftermath, Rav Amital would travel from base to base, visiting his students. His frequent visits brought him into close contact with senior IDF commanders, and soon after the war he was asked by the upper command echelons of the IDF to be the rabbinic liaison between the army and the hesder yeshivot. The military even allowed him unfettered entry, in uniform, into IDF camps.
New Survey Of U.S. Jews Shows Soaring Intermarriage, Assimilation
Posted on: October 2nd, 2013
News & Views → USThere are more people in America who identify themselves as Jews than you may have thought – an estimated 6.8 million, according to a new study. But a growing proportion of them are unlikely to raise their children Jewish or connect with Jewish institutions.
Community Currents – October 4, 2013
Posted on: October 2nd, 2013
Sections → Community → Community Currents.
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Kidz → Midrash StoriesOne of the areas in which even observant Jews sin is in their attitude towards rabbanim. A rav is not just someone whom we have the right to hire and fire; he is not just a man who gives a speech on Shabbos. He is a teacher and a leader. When he rules on a point of halacha, it is not only our right to listen to him; it is our obligation to do so.
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesAt first I thought I wouldn’t be able to use it at all. I had thought the concept was perfect. A rose-colored background, surrounding black encroaching from all sides. It would be a cave of warmth, a hiding place within the darkness.
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriThe parallel lives of my father, Shlomo Ben Dovid Schlesinger, whose name was once Severin and that of his first cousin, Severin F., diverged exponentiallys shared a maternal grandmother, Raisel Schlesinger, a frum balabusta, who lived and practiced the traditional ways of her forefathers. along different lifestyles and choices. Each of the Severin
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Milewicz Paintings: the soul exceeds its circumstances
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → ArtsThe philosopher Theodor Adorno famously wrote in 1949, “cultural criticism finds itself with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” This statement posited that the Holocaust exposed the unredeemable rotten underbelly of Western culture and therefore the very notion of creating beauty and sensitivity was at an insurmountable impasse. Alas, as cultural history has shown, he was wrong. Strikingly, it might be said that one of the few ways still provocatively available to speak about the Holocaust is in fact through poetry.
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → On Our Own/Cheryl KupferNow and then my Bubby would open up about what she went through in the camps, of what she witnessed... From time to time she would talk about her baby sisters - twins - and how she would sew them identical dresses and braid their hair the same way challenging everyone to guess who was who.
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Giving Parental Advice: Is It A Good Idea?
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Family → Marriage and RelationshipsDear Dr. Yael: How do I express my opinion in an appropriate way? There are some aspects of my sister’s parenting that I do not agree with, and feel that her methods in these areas are harming her children. I do not claim to be the best parent in the world, but I am confident that my instincts in my sister’s situation are correct.
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenYour son has a big vocabulary test this morning. He’s really anxious and studied with you last night for over an hour. Now, at breakfast, he is talking about how nervous he feels and how he hopes he doesn’t fail. You are trying to think about what is best for him. He has ten minutes before he needs to leave for school. Should you go over the words with him one last time? Should you encourage him to take deep breaths and realize that he knows the material? Or, should you get him to take a run around the living room, ending with jumping jacks and push-ups in the kitchen?
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriBefore I invite you to peer over my shoulders as I look into the mirror, a basic tutorial in the terms JMW, rigidly enmeshed and angst is in order.
It’s My Opinion: The Lowly Sukkah: The Ultimate Lesson
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Community → South FloridaModern life can keep us isolated from reality. Our homes are well lit, temperature controlled, sound proofed and sealed off from our environment. We never sweat or shiver. We sleep soundly through the greatest of storms. We neither feel nor hear the wind or rain.
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Mitzvah Chapter Holds Meet And Greet
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Community → South FloridaSouth Florida’s Mitzvah Chapter of Hadassah recently held a meet and greet at The Mexico Bravo restaurant, located at 16850 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles.
Southern NCSY Announces New S. Florida Director
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Community → South FloridaSouthern NCSY announced the appointment of Josh Geller, of Hollywood, Florida, as the new South Florida NCSY director of institutional advancement. Geller, an NCSY alumnus, will serve as an integral member of Southern NCSY development department. His focus will be to reach out to the thousands of alumni who participated in Southern NCSY as far back as the 1950s and reconnect them with the organization and its mission.
RASG Hebrew Academy Students Hold Food Drive
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
Sections → Community → South FloridaStudents at the RASG Hebrew Academy in Miami Beach started off the school year with a great mitzvah project with a fun-filled theme. The school’s annual food drive was dedicated to the Miami Dolphins football team and dubbed “The Fins Frenzy and Food Drive Day.”
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
InDepth → Front PageAs the Torah teaches, poverty will never be eradicated, nor will our obligation to assist those in need.
To Become a ‘Martyr’: Understanding Major Hasan
Posted on: September 25th, 2013
InDepth → Columns → Louis Rene BeresAgain and again, we hear the nearly visceral incantations from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah: "We love death."
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