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The 30th of Cheshvan is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman (1908-2003).

Roosevelt visited Israel four times, the first in 1952, and the last eight months before her death in 1962... In many letters to her friends and in her newspaper columns, she frequently sang the praises of the extraordinary beauty of the Israeli landscape, and she often lauded Israel’s educational institutions and healthcare facilities.

If you mess up, miss a note, in the middle of a song, keep playing. Don’t go back and try to replay it. The rest of the orchestra is already moving on and so must you.

Sometimes, we experience what we perceive as a failure... But each failure can be repurposed creatively, and channeled into a better future for ourselves and for others.

Eventually the towels weren’t needed anymore, and although the chairs are twenty years old, they mostly remained stain free and we were spared the sticky indignity of the old school plastic covers.

But the key to stickiness is in the sharing. If there is no sharing, nothing sticks. A word can’t become a name. A second question is never asked.

Some people are willing to ignore the bad and focus on the good, while for others, their focus is squarely on the bad, despite the overwhelming good.

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Davening in a minyan is the great social equalizer because each person is typically treated with the same dignity and respect. At the RJC, that feeling of common cause transcended each person’s economic status level and extended itself to the rest of the conference experience.

Abrahams, who has twice visited Israel, said he asked if he could give his perspective on the situation and his take on the correct terminology to use for Hamas. Abrahams said, They basically said, ‘We have your number,’ as a way of refusing to let him give his take on the war.

Who could possibly believe the conversations that transpire with a person who has memory loss? Pretend that you are invisible in the room!

When you support evil, then you are held accountable for the evil that you support, and this president and his party, and this government, is supporting an evil savagery that has shocked the hearts of all decent human beings in the world.

This prayerbook, with an English translated by Isaac Pinto, is the very first prayerbook printed in the New World and the first translation into English.

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Israeli Columbia Business School professor Shai Davidai said his parents, who are in bomb shelters in Israel, are ironically more concerned about his safety on campus than they are about their own.

You issue hollow statements, serving a policy of going through the motions. You are passive. You are ‘neutral.’ You choose not to ‘risk’ your ties with the Nazi-like terror organization, and other anti-Israel and anti-Semitic entities, for the sake of innocent Jews.

For more than a decade, Huberman had been a regular performer with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and, even when Jewish musicians were being dismissed from major orchestras and blacklisted, he was one of the few Jews not fired.

It's worth asking ourselves, in this situation, is there something going on for this person that I haven't experienced? Is there something here about which I could be more understanding?

At a short lull, I tore upstairs to put on a new Yom Tov dress and yes, my sheitel. I told myself that even if I was spending my entire day in a bomb shelter, this was going to be my way of not letting Hamas take away our Shabbat and Yom Tov.

Sheitels are often necessary for work purposes outside of Israel where it would not be professional to wear a hat or a scarf. In Israel, there is no need to wear a sheitel for professional reasons.

I made the difficult decision to not wear my tichel this week as I often do, and instead opted to put on my sheitel. Fearing for my life – yes, even here in the very Jewish city of Los Angeles – I have not wanted to take any chances.

The German word derives from the Indo-European root *skeyt, meaning to cut, part, separate. That ancient root also gave us the English verb to shed, meaning to cast off.

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Only recently did I realize that Hubby’s aversion to broken cookies was deeper than even he could admit.

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The very first Hebrew book printed in London for Jewish use, this publication was named Ma'aseh Rav, and was printed by a gentile printer.

There was a lot of momentum towards leaving (Israel). Fortunately, only 2 or 3 returned home from our yeshiva, but from other yeshivas it’s been much more. I felt there needed to be a student initiative to not leave and to encourage each other.

In a previous Jewish Press article, I displayed and discussed the cards issued for the first seven Congresses, and I present here the official cards from the Eighth Zionist Congress through the Thirteenth Congress along with a brief discussion of the highlights of each.

Sarah’s judgment – her careful balancing of competing demands – is ultimately correct. It is only by following her judgment that the future of the Jewish people will be assured.

In the wake of recent events, the message has taken a decidedly different tone. The story of Sarah resonates with me in new ways.