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The Power Of Speech

Features Michal Popper

Ask any counselor or therapist and you will hear of the great damage caused to children who were insulted by their parents or teachers, siblings or peers.

Holocaust Survivor’s Name Lives On

Features Nataly Blumberg

Named after their beloved grandfather, who did not have grandsons to carry on the family name, Apeloig Collection serves as a living memory for all generations.

Anticipating The Geulah

Features Yaffa Ganz

Are we not walking down the road to redemption?

Misunderstandings

Features Michal Popper

How do misunderstandings arise? Often the cause is a kind of egocentrism – the belief that other people think the same way we do, especially if these people belong to “us.”

Bonjour, Goodbye: Is French Jewry Headed Toward Its Final Expulsion?

Features On The Jewish World Libi Astaire

It was a land of opportunity, a place where someone who wasn’t afraid of a little hard work, or the challenges of adapting to a different climate and culture, could prosper.

The First Jew To Serve On The Federal Bench

Features On The Jewish World Saul Jay Singer

However, the main target in Lauder’s piece was “the Orthodox,” who he paints with one brush, as if there are not huge differences within Israel’s vibrant modern Orthodox, nationalist religious Zionist and charedi communities.

The Angels Of Shabbat

Features Raphael Poch

Volunteers began going around to neighbors and synagogues in the vicinity to collect the children who had been out of the home when the tragedy occurred.

Beyond The Pale

Features On The Jewish World Libi Astaire

If the people lacked for material things, the Pale was spiritually rich.

Israel’s Constituent Assembly

Features On The Jewish World Saul Jay Singer

The elections to the Constituent Assembly, which twice had to be canceled, were eventually held on January 25, 1949, with an impressive 87 percent of eligible voters going to the polls.

A Jewish Soldier In Greece

Features On The Jewish World Rhona Lewis

Mordechai and his men shared a strong mutual loyalty.

Israeli Emergency App Now Available To Everyone

Features Avigail Jacobs

There was a need for the correct people to communicate” with each other in the event of an emergency.

Can A Rabbi Younger Than 40 Issue Halachic Rulings? A Case Study From 16th-Century...

Features Rabbi Gil Student

Around 1552, leading rabbis in Egypt issued a cherem against people using rabbinic judges not approved by official channels.

Mishloach Manos – ‘In Those Days, In This Time…’

Features On The Jewish World Esty Mendelowitz

The mishloach manos of times gone by were sometimes simple and sometimes elaborate, but the main focus was on the preparation of the delicious food they contained.

Power and Politics Feminized (Part I): Medieval Europe

Features Faigy Grunfeld

Power and influence do not come without consequence.

Friday Nights At Home

Features S.L. Weinstock

Shabbos means different things for us than it does for the average Jewish home. Soon after my divorce six years ago, I made a valiant effort at conducting a Shabbos meal for my two toddlers, aged three and a half and two and a half. With emotional resources severely depleted and time and energy limited, the store-bought roasted chicken and greasy soup with heavy matzah balls did little to enhance the atmosphere, and the gnawing loneliness threatened to engulf me. Is it any wonder I gave up?

Freud’s Twisted View Of Jewish Origins

Features On The Jewish World Saul Jay Singer

That Freud was Jewish is universally recognized. Not as well known is his strong and proud self-identification as a Jew. Freud was also very...

Danny Ayalon: From No-Nonsense Negotiator To Popular Professor

Features Devora Mandell

Never pushing any ideology, Ayalon stresses a few key thoughts – particularly that there is a division of responsibilities between Jews in Israel and the Diaspora.

Hashgacha Pratit: The Kidney Donation That Gave More Meaning To Life

Features On The Jewish World Yocheved Golani

Marci Rapp finessed the setbacks with class. She rearranged her business priorities as creator and CEO of MarSea Modest Swimwear and gym clothes with her husband/business partner, Harold, in order to remain on standby as a kidney donor. Her intended recipient had been rescheduled to receive that vitally necessary organ several times. Recurring illness delayed the surgery throughout May and June 2011. On June 14th the life-saving surgery took place.

Seder Table Ruminations

Features Harvey Rachlin

An Eruv “Grows” in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Features On The Jewish World Judy Lederman Segaloff

The Ann Arbor community welcomed a brand new Eruv with open arms-which will soon be pushing strollers to shul, just in time for the delightful summer weather. The Eruv envelopes much of the community surrounding the University of Michigan Hillel Orthodox Minyan neighborhood, and parts of student campus housing.

A Morah’s View from Out-of-town

Features On The Jewish World Penina Scheiner

When 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.