Meir Panim: Lighting Up Life for Israel’s Neediest Residents Across Israel, Meir Panim responds to the growing needs of the country’s 1.75 million impoverished residents through various food and social service programs.
Christian IDF Recruitment Affirms Israeli Democracy
Posted on: December 5th, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsThis new mood among Christian Arabs has worried the communists and Arab nationalist.
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Posted on: December 4th, 2013
Food → Restaurant ReviewWith a menu as enticing as Reserve Cut's we left the difficult dilemma of what to eat to our personable and efficient waiter, Csaba.
Adolphus S. Solomons: Friend Of President Lincoln
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryLast month’s column sketched the myriad of social programs in which the Orthodox American communal worker and leader Adolphus S. Solomons (1826-1910) was involved. Adolphus married Rachel Seixas Phillips (1828-1881), a descendant of colonial patriot families and together they had eight daughters and a son.
Beware A Lame Duck On A Mission
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
InDepth → EditorialAfter nearly five years in office it should be clear that President Obama has always been a man on a mission to change America and the world. To be sure, we couldn’t disagree more with his vision – and in this we think we speak for most Americans.
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InDepth → EditorialWe find it noteworthy, if not surprising, that with all the well-documented systematic human rights abuses committed by governments around the world – including, but not limited to, China, Cuba, Egypt, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Zimbabwe – not one resolution condemning any of them is planned by the UN General Assembly.
Quick Takes: News You May Have Missed
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
InDepth → Columns → Aaron Klein.
Six Thousand Miles And Nine Pairs Of Shoes Later: An Interview with Professor William Helmreich
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesFor his latest book, City College’s William Helmreich walked 120,960 blocks – in other words, nearly every block of New York’s five boroughs.
Peres Meets With Gulf Arab Leaders As Ex-CIA Chief Says Iran ‘Too Close’ To Bomb
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
News & Views → Middle East → IranJERUSALEM – As the Iranians move closer to acquiring a nuclear bomb, an unprecedented meeting and a startling admission have buttressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertions that President Obama’s Iran policy is alienating America’s Mideast allies.
Giant Dreidel Featured At Thanksgiving Parade
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldThis year’s parade, the 87th annual extravaganza of marching bands, floats, and giant balloons, featured something really unique and different: a balloon/float of a large blue dreidel.
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
InDepth → Front PageThroughout the past week we have thanked Hashem for the improbable defeat of the powerful Seleucid forces by a small, untrained band of Jewish fighters. We also celebrated the story’s one open miracle, when the menorah’s lights burned for eight consecutive days following the Temple’s rededication.
Netanyahu To Pope: Israel Won’t Rely On Others To Take Care Of Iran Nuclear Threat
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
News & Views → Middle East → IranPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday with Pope Francis in the Vatican and with Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, and with both, the Iranian nuclear issue was a major topic of conversation.
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Community Currents – December 6, 2013
Posted on: December 4th, 2013
Sections → Community → Community Currents.
The Transformational Power of Empathy
Posted on: November 30th, 2013
Sections → Health and LivingEmpathy is not agreement or approval. It is simply understanding, the intuitive sensing of another person’s underlying feelings, wants, and psychological dynamics, i.e., “What would I be feeling if I were him or her?”
Set the Limits – Ditch the Power Struggle
Posted on: November 30th, 2013
Sections → Health and LivingMuch like the physical development of a child, the cognitive process, better known as the child’s ability to think, process and make decisions, develops over time
Delightful, Silly, Wonderful Dreidels – and the Miracles They Represent
Posted on: November 30th, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsNo matter where we look, our lives are touched by miracles.
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Remembering What America and Judaism Are All About
Posted on: November 30th, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsHellenism captured the imagination and hearts not only of the Greeks but of the majority of Jews in ancient Judea.
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From Athens To Vilna To Jerusalem
Posted on: November 30th, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsAll secular wisdom is essential for our Holy Torah and is included in it.
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Posted on: November 29th, 2013
Kidz → Tales of the GaonimThe Baal Shem Tov had two grandsons, Rav Moshe Chaim Ephraim and Reb Baruch. Both were pious and well educated in Torah, yet, Rav Moshe lived a frugal and poor life while his brother, Reb Baruch, became very wealthy.
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