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Hafrashat Jala
Next week’s Shabbat is a very special one for Jews everywhere. It is a time when every Jewish congregation around the world will be together, not physically but spiritually.
This year, the Kehila Ashkenazi granted...
Hero: Mexico’s UNESCO envoy walked out to protest Islamist resolution on Jerusalem, now may...
Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s newly-arrived ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, is not only a diplomat, political analyst, attorney, economist, think tank founder, and author of 16 books and two award-winning plays.
He is also a hero.
When...
Israel suspending ties with UNESCO following vote that denies Jewish connection to Jerusalem
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett said Israel would suspend its cooperation with UNESCO because of the U.N. agency’s decision to ignore Jewish ties to holy sites in Jerusalem.
Bennett’s statement on Friday followed passionate condemnations...
Losing One’s Touch For Touching
The human sense of touch seems to be under ongoing attack by modern technological innovation. In some cases, the experience of touching stimuli is reduced as in swiping one’s fingers over or typing...
Becoming A Part Of The Internet of Dogs
The main focus of this column has been the effects of modern technology on living environments and on humans and their behavior. My purpose has been to show how increasingly people are no...
Michael and Paula Mantell: Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle
How can one have a healthier and more meaningful lifestyle at any age? The former psychologist Dr. Michael Mantell and his wife, Paula Mantell, both in their mid 60’s, have found an answer. Mantell,...
Remembering a Woman Who Helped Yiddish Flourish in Mexico City
In 1945, a young girl from Brooklyn fell in love with a Mexican Jew and decided to leave it all to go to Mexico City. Little did she know her strong Yiddish upbringing would...
US Professor Amazed at Wealth in Gaza City; Notes 900 Mosques, Only 2 Libraries
A professor at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle visited Gaza City for six hours a few weeks ago, and he was astonished that after reading years of propaganda about...
Love the Stranger: How Canadian synagogues started sponsoring Syrian refugees
It was the photo that finally brought home the true horror of the Syrian refugee crisis: 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, lying face down on a Turkish beach, arms at his side, waves lapping around his...
Nearly half a million killed, and Syria civil war isn’t over
As the Syrian civil war is entering its sixth year and topping the half-million casualty mark, the Sha’ar Binyamin Institute, dedicated to preserving the past and present of the great Jewish community of Damascus,...