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Operating as usual
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/348518/against-death-the-story-of-a-sacred-lchaim/
After the Holocaust, everything changed; death was an unambiguous instrument of evil. It was now time to cherish life and sanctify it.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/348412/to-catch-a-thief/
I have an extraordinary amount of symmetry in my life: I had a flat tire on the 101 freeway and met the first love of my life.
"The gift of knowing that God accepts you as you are and loves you unconditionally is priceless." https://jewishjournal.com/community/348398/sulam-chi-a-kabbalah-and-tai-chi-movement-that-connects-to-the-divine/
Ben-Shmuel, who lives in Los Angeles with his family, teaches Sulam Chi online and in person.
https://jewishjournal.com/podcasts/348507/can-you-grow-sustainable-delicious-meat-in-a-lab/
Listen to the full episode on any of your favorite podcast platforms! In conversation with Yaky Yanay, CEO of Pluristem Therapeutics, an Israeli biotech
If any party deserves a trial, it should be the party that is afraid of the truth.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/348476/why-were-israeli-soldiers-in-jenin-anyway/
The PA, by its deliberate inaction, has forced the Israeli army to occasionally enter Jenin in pursuit of terrorists.
On days like Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, when we celebrate the very existence of the Jewish state, we can take a timeout from activism and marvel at the big picture.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/348414/the-five-miracles-of-israel/
One of the problems with constantly defending yourself is that you can lose sight of the big picture.
I’ve always struggled with allowing myself to enjoy life after hearing about terrorist attacks anywhere, but particularly in Israel.
https://jewishjournal.com/israel/348430/al-jazeera-journalist-killed-during-idf-raid/
Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was killed during an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) raid of a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank village of Jenin on May 11.
Per the reporting, the non-Jewish passengers from New York were allowed to board the flight to Budapest but the Jewish passengers were not.
https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/348425/german-airline-allegedly-bars-more-than-100-orthodox-jewish-passengers-from-flight-after-some-refuse-to-wear-mask/
The German airline Lufthansa allegedly prevented more than 100 Orthodox Jewish passengers from boarding a May 4 flight from Frankfurt to Budapest after a couple of passengers refused to wear a mask on their previous flight.
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The pandemic of the past few years disrupted education, pushing children and educators into online classrooms.
The fact that the Jewish people not only have a sovereign state, but also that state is today ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the eighth most powerful country on earth, with the ninth happiest population according to the UN is nothing short of miraculous.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/347650/the-journey-of-a-people-the-creation-of-a-nation-the-sorrow-and-the-celebration-from-passover-to-independence-day/
The fact that the Jewish people not only have a sovereign state, but also that state is today ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the eighth most powerful country on earth, with the ninth happiest population according to the UN is nothing short of miraculous.
I’m sure the decision to publish wasn’t easy. I’m sure there was disagreement and debate behind the scenes. I’m sure you all had many different opinions. So I respectfully ask you to hear me out and consider another perspective to which, perhaps, you’ve never been exposed.
https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/348350/open-letter-to-the-editorial-board-of-the-harvard-crimson/
Dear Harvard Crimson Editorial Board, On Friday, April 29, you published an editorial expressing your support for the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement. I read the editorial. Several times.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/348344/harvard-bds-and-the-nazis/
The editors of the Harvard student newspaper are urging a boycott of the Jewish state, and praising a campus group that has celebrated a murderer of
Actress Jennifer Grey wrote her new memoir “Out of the Corner” to take ownership of her life story. Up until now, she’s felt as if everyone else has dictated her story.
The book starts in the late 1980s with a prologue that clarifies misconceptions about the infamous rhinoplasty that left her virtually unrecognizable—despite her being a high-profile actress at the time.
Brian Fishbach reports.
https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/347662/actress-jennifer-grey-people-would-rather-believe-that-i-hated-my-god-given-jewish-nose/
Actress Jennifer Grey wrote her new memoir “Out of the Corner” to take ownership of her life story. Up until now, she’s felt as if everyone else has dictacted her story.
https://jewishjournal.com/community/347540/sending-moms-to-israel-on-life-changing-trips/
“Moms are kind of the forgotten demographic in the Jewish world,” said Rebbetzin Chana Heller of Aish Los Angeles. “We throw lots of money in the direction of our kids. But we all know that if the mom isn’t inspired, it’s unlikely that Judaism will be happening in the home. The question is, ‘Who’s taking care of mom?’”
In many ways, Moms are the center of the family, and in the Jewish world, they are known to be primarily responsible for the spirituality of their home.
The attack took place in the Haredi-dominated city of Elad on May 5, Israel’s Independence Day. It reportedly involved two Palestinian terrorists armed with an axe and a knife killing three people and injuring at least four others.
By Aaron Bandler
https://jewishjournal.com/israel_rosner/347644/jewish-groups-condemn-elad-terror-attack/
Jewish groups issued condemnations of the latest terror attack in Israel as well as their condolences to the victims and their families.
Now, reflecting on the challenging birth experience, Wendy has advice for other parents who are experiencing the same struggles: stay positive, and don’t give up hope.
https://jewishjournal.com/community/347529/teens-who-were-nicu-triplets-celebrate-bnai-mitzvah/
When Wendy Tirsch’s water broke at 26 weeks, she was terrified.
The suspects, who attacked people in the city’s central park by Ibn Gvirol Street, were believed to be armed with an ax and perhaps a firearm. With the aid of at least one helicopter, security forces are searching the area for the assailants.
https://jewishjournal.com/israel/347618/terror-attack-in-elad-on-yom-haatzmaut-three-murdered-four-seriously-wounded/
The suspects, who attacked people in the city’s central park by Ibn Gvirol Street, were believed to be armed with an ax and perhaps a firearm. With the aid of at least one helicopter, security forces are searching the area for the assailants.
On the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron) last year, at 11:30PM, our daughter Ephrat called to notify us of the birth of their little boy. She had given birth at St. Joseph’s Hospital, which is located near to what used to be the border between East and West Jerusalem, next to the Israeli Police Headquarters, on the way to Mt. Scopus.
I told her that Savta Leah (my husband’s mother) was smiling down on her from heaven.
This is a story that combines the Shoah with the founding of the State of Israel, and has many interlocking circles and the building of bridges.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/347538/a-story-bridging-yom-hashoah-israel-memorial-day-independence-day/
This is a story that combines the Shoah with the founding of the State of Israel, and has many interlocking circles and the building of bridges.
The claim by Russia’s foreign minister that Hitler was secretly Jewish, and therefore Jews themselves are to blame for the Holocaust, may be the weirdest slur ever regarding the Nazi genocide.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/347601/weirdest-holocaust-slur-ever/
When a Hollywood celebrity makes a ludicrous remark, it’s easy to shrug it off. But when the foreign minister of a major country spouts such lies, it’s much more troubling.
Whereas the Saudis and the Jordanians flat-out refused a landing, Israel said ‘yes’ to a hijacked plane from Iran, the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism.
By Tabby Refael.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/347527/one-israel-story-youve-probably-never-heard/
On the occasion of the 74th anniversary of establishment of the modern State of Israel, also known as Yom Ha’atzmaut, here’s a little-known story about Israel that’s worth sharing.
Israel supporters don’t have to love Israel the same way, but we each can have, as Rabbi David Hartman once said, “a heart with many rooms.” David Suissa reports.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/347528/loving-israel-from-left-to-right/
I had interesting conversations recently with leaders of two progressive, pro-Israel organizations in the wake of the renewed terror attacks in Israel.
Today is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. 74 years ago, on the day Great Britain’s mandate over Palestine expired, David Ben-Gurion declared the Jewish state reborn after 2,000 years of exile. Hundreds of thousands of Jews in Israel, in the United States, and around the world huddled next to their radio to hear the immortal words of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. In Israel, Yom Ha’atzmaut is commemorated with fireworks, street celebrations, and feasts. Are you celebrating today? Tell us how!
As it goes, so goes with it my heart although it is impossible to pave over my memories.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/347524/a-loving-farewell-to-the-beverlywood-bakery/
If Joni Mitchell were Jewish or even if she wasn’t (which she isn’t) she would be writing a song about the Beverlywood Bakery on Pico Blvd
A number of years ago, I was sitting in my apartment in Tel Aviv when I heard a siren go off. First a low moan, like the acceleration of a motorcycle, and then a piercing cry.
There’s nothing particularly shocking about this. I had been living in Israel for a number of years and I had witnessed the beginnings, middles, and ends of a few rounds of violence—each one nearly identical in even its smallest details, to the extent that I can’t ever quite recall which war I’m talking about even as I talk about it.
I knew what to do. I stood up and went to the stairwell. I sat down on the steps and I waited to hear the “boom” of the rocket being intercepted by the Iron Dome.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/347548/an-idiot-abroad-on-yom-hazikaron/
The atmosphere of Memorial Day in Israel speaks to the fact that, in Israel, history runs wild in the streets.
https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/347530/adl-ceo-anti-zionism-is-antisemitism/
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt declared that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism” in a May 1 speech, calling anti-Zionism an ideology
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/346453/an-apology-then-and-now/
I recently came across a letter of apology sent to me in 1982, when I was a 21-year-old senior at UC Berkeley, sent to me by a slightly older grad student named Todd.
Art is a potent form of resistance, and we are humbled by our peers’ passion and skill.” The PSC had organized various panels as well as a “Wall of Resistance” during Israel Apartheid Week in April; the wall had stated “Zionism is Racism Settler Colonialism White Supremacy Apartheid,” as well as other various anti-Israel slogans.
https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/347483/harvard-crimson-endorses-bds/
The Harvard Crimson student newspaper published an editorial endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on April 29 that was met with fierce criticism on social media.
The brief argued that commercial activity is not protected under the First Amendment and that the law “only prohibits the government from contracting with a company that engages in particular boycotts, which themselves remain entirely legal.” The law also defines a “boycott” as a contractor refusing to conduct commercial activity with Israel or someone based in the Jewish state for the sole purpose of inflicting “economic harm” on Israel.
https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/347485/law-profs-jewish-groups-file-briefs-supporting-texas-anti-bds-law/
Law professors and Jewish groups have each filed separate briefs urging the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overturn a January ruling finding Texas’ anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) law unconstitutional.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/347370/the-day-my-heart-broke-in-los-angeles/
It may sound strange, but in recollecting my childhood, I remember the exact day that I lost trust in adults.
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