Storm Wreaks Havoc On Yiddish Farm
Dear Friends,
What started yesterday as a sunny warm end-of-summer day, ended with a scene that looked like a hurricane had just torn through the farm.
Isolated thunderstorms were predicted for yesterday afternoon, but we had...
Parashat Nitzavim נִצָּבִים
Our Parasha opens with three words “Atem Nitzavim Hayom” (“אתם נצבים היום”), “you all are firmly standing here today”. This statement has a profound meaning and secret as we read it during the forty days of...
Embattled comedienne Roseanne Barr is moving to Israel
Roseanne Barr is moving to Israel, the American-Jewish comedienne and actress announced Sunday on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s podcast.
“I have an opportunity to go to Israel for a few months and study with my favorite...
Families help out at kosher food pantry ahead of holidays
Local families recently performed good deeds at Goodman Jewish Family Services of Broward County's kosher food pantry, The Cupboard, in Davie.
At the event, PJ Library and PJ Our Way go to The Cupboard, children...
Filmmaker Engages in Tikkun Olam by Camera
For Emanuel Aronson Rund, being behind the camera is his way of fulfilling tikkun olam.
He got his start in Jerusalem, where he grew up, working with Israel’s first broadcast television station in the 1960s....
A Guide To The Jewish High Holy Days In D.C
ROSH HASHANAH: September 9-11
The Jewish New Year is a time for reflection, spiritual growth, and renewal. Shake off the dust, awaken your soul to the blast of the shofar, and refuse to eat anything...
Parashat Ki Tavo כִּי-תָבוֹא
The first word in our Parasha is “Vehaya” (“והיה") and it has the same letters of HaShem’s name in Hebrew ("יהוה" - Y.H.V.H), alluding to that He kept his promise to our forefathers and...
Muslim Zanzibar gets its first-ever Jewish center
Winding alleyways make their way past carved doors before spilling into crowded marketplaces. Zanzibar, today an autonomous part of the East African country of Tanzania, was once, not too long ago, a Sultanate. The...
Parashat Ki Tetzeie כִּי-תֵצֵא
Our Parasha Ki Tetzei (“כִּי-תֵצֵא”) is usually reads in the month of Elul which is the month before the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah) and is the beginnings of the forty days of Teshuvah...
Jewish ruins of the Rhine
In recent months, the Rhine city of Mainz captured worldwide headlines for the murder and rape of one of its Jewish members, 14-year-old Susanna Feldmann, allegedly at the hands of an Iraqi asylum-seeker, now in...