Combining Modern Living in Traditional Jerusalem A unique and prestigious residential project in now being built in Mekor Haim Street in Jerusalem.
On Rye Please, Hold The Stereotypes
Posted on: June 15th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldIn an effort to procrastinate, I occasionally like to bounce some ideas around. As I work from home with only my two cats for company, this often means waiting until my children return home from school.
1Teaching Our Community To Fish
Posted on: June 7th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldMr. Stein (not his real name) saw his career hit a dead end three years ago when the market went sour. As a commercial real estate broker, he and his wife, Devora, then a student studying toward her degree in social work, knew something had to change quickly if they were to survive financially. Friends and family members had suggested they open their own business, but the Steins had no money to invest in the project. They had no credit and the money they borrowed from relatives went directly to day-to-day living. That’s when they contacted the Emergency Parnossa Initiative (EPI) and the OU Job Board and began the process of transforming their lives.
Posted on: June 4th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldHong Kong’s Ohel Leah Synagogue recently celebrated the dedication of a new Sefer Torah. Britain’s Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Lady Elaine Sacks joined Rabbi Asher Oser and Assistant Rabbi Ariel Zamir of Ohel Leah at the festivities. Also present were Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon of Chabad of Hong Kong, Rabbis Meir Azarzar and Avner Cohen from the Shuva Israel community, and the sofer, Rabbi Yehonatan Yitzhak-Halevy. Hundreds of members of the Hong Kong Jewish community participated as well.
Before The Deluge: The Jews Of Turkey
Posted on: May 23rd, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldEuropean Turkey in its present form consists of the small region around Istanbul, Adrianopolis, Kirkilisse, and Rodosto. For the history of the Jews, the cities Adrianopolis – today’s Edirne, and the capital from 1361 – 1453 – and Constantinople – today’s Istanbul, capital since 1453 – come into consideration. Both cities once had thriving Jewish communities, but show signs of going under today.
Posted on: May 11th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldPesach means bite-sized sweet kidney mangos and the return of the longon. Shavuot brings back the pomelo. Chanukah means miniature Mandarin oranges. And its always star-fruit for Rosh Hashanah. While our palates might have changed, along with our knowledge of Southeast Asian fruit, when it comes to Pesach it’s really all Osem and Yehuda Matzot for us.
NCFJE’s Toys For Children: Bringing Cheer To Those Who Need It Most
Posted on: May 9th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldHuge plush teddy bears greet me as soon as I walk through the door. Puzzles line the shelves along with boxes of Lego and dress-up clothes. Every few inches another toy. Another game. Another child’s dream.
1948 Israel War of Independence Overseas Heroes Honoured by Museum of the Diaspora
Posted on: May 8th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldIsraeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion: “The Machal Forces were the Diaspora’s most important contribution to the survival of the State of Israel”.
Holocaust Survivor Addresses Two N.J. Communities
Posted on: April 27th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldHolocaust survivor, author, educator and community leader, Fanya Heller, addressed two Holocaust Remembrance Week events in New Jersey as the keynote speaker on April 17 and April 19. At the first, Mayor Mark Smith and the city of Bayonne hosted the annual Holocaust Remembrance Service, organized by the UJA Federation of Bayonne, the Interfaith Clergy of Bayonne and the local Holocaust Memorial Committee.
The Lax Family – Formerly Of Neve Dekalim; Now Of Nitzan
Posted on: April 19th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldThe family: I was born in Israel and I’ve never left. My husband Moshe was born in Detroit, MI. His family made aliyah when he was 12 years old.
Posted on: April 6th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldIt was Moishele, and Itche, and me. We did everything together. We even made our own language, which only we understood. In shul they jokingly called us “the troika,” after the three bishops whose authority extended across Poland.
Posted on: March 30th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldAgainst all odds, the spark of Judaism continues to burn brightly in the Amazon as two members of the Brazilian city of Porto Velho underwent a bris milah performed by a renowned Argentian mohel just days after Rosh Chodesh Adar.
A Morah’s View from Out-of-town
Posted on: March 30th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldWhen you‘re here, over the rainbow, it is different. Being out-of-town is not about living in some neighborhood of Brooklyn (other than Boro Park, Williamsburg, or Flatbush). Living out-of-town also does not mean living in other parts of the Big Apple, like Manhattan or Queens. It doesn’t even mean living in the suburbs – like the Five Towns or Great Neck. Being here, over the rainbow, means living away.
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Posted on: March 23rd, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldA traditional Purim in Hong Kong requires an obligatory visit to Pottinger Street in the bustling Central District. Also known locally as Stone Step Street, Pottinger Street is more of a steep, irregularly paved pedestrian stone path (with steps too small for Western feet) than a street. My children run ahead up the stone slabs as I carefully balance my size nine feet on the thin, uneven stairs. My five year old stumbles but quickly recovers and catches up to the big kids.
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Coming Full Circle: A glimpse at the inspiring work of Be’er Hagolah
Posted on: March 16th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldTanya Rosen is the owner of Shape Fitness. She recently released a kosher, home-workout DVD for women. Dr. Natalie Zelenko is employed as a radiologist at the Cancer Center at Maimonides Medical Centers. Igor Lempert works as an actuary for New York Life. What they and thousands of others share is a life of Torah Judaism, despite having been raised in secular environments and due to the education and warmth they received at Be’er Hagolah Institutes.
Posted on: February 17th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldOur Jewish world is small but from his five-year-old perspective it is large, perhaps all-encompassing. The fact that in a population of over 7 million people in Hong Kong (95% of whom are ethnically Chinese) we as Jews collectively account for only about 4,000 or 0.05% of the population can be seemingly irrelevant. Large numbers and statistics don’t play into his worldview.
1Not For The Birds: A Week Of Halachic Learning At Princeton
Posted on: February 1st, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldSome college students use their winter break between terms to relax, fly to warm climates and in general recover from the academic burdens of the fall semester. Others study how to slaughter chickens according to kosher law.
Before The Deluge: Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands (Part IV)
Posted on: January 26th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldThe excavation of archeological layers has shown that in Roman times there were Jewish communities in Syracuse, Catania, Noto, among other places. At the end of the 6th century there is mention of Jews in Messina, Palermo, and Girgenti.
Before The Deluge: Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands (Part III)
Posted on: December 29th, 2011
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldFindings in catacombs confirm the existence of Jews on Malta from the time of the Roman Empire until late in the Middle Ages. They came from Alexandria to this important crossroads on their way to Italy.
Posted on: December 23rd, 2011
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldTo explain to my children what Chanukah was like for me as a young girl, I find I am just as inclined to recount what it wasn’t as I am to describe what it was.
Before The Deluge: Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands (Part II)
Posted on: November 30th, 2011
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldIn biblical times this island was known as Kaftor. It had close relations with the Philistines, who already swelled in the Land of Canaan when the Jews migrated in, and this Kaftorland is conceivably the Philistine homeland.
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Destroying the Chametz Within and Truly Preparing for Pesach