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Zoe’s Discovery Journey Continues…
Rene Annette Wallace was born to an agnostic single mother who was also a women’s rights advocate. Rene had no knowledge of G-d or spiritual things, and at the age of eight years old, she was invited to church by her babysitter. Even at a young age, Rene understood...
Ties Between Morocco and Israel Run Much Deeper than Recent Accords
A toothless old Berber sits in the shade of a small tree at the edge of Agouim, a tiny village 45 miles south of Marrakesh, and speaks of a singular morning in 1948 when he, as a child, helped his Jewish neighbors abandon their homes in Morocco for Israel. “I helped...
From Mourning to Gladness: Tisha B’Av
In the blazing heat of summer, when the land is parched and dry in Israel and throughout the Western world, an intense period of mourning begins for observant Jews. For three weeks, beginning on the Hebrew date 17 Tammuz, (which falls on Sunday, July 17, 2022), until...
Something Very Special
Inna Pletenetska was born in Antratsit, Eastern Ukraine, a coal-mining town located about 100 miles northeast of the currently embattled port city of Mariupol. Since the escalation of Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia began in March of 2022, Mariupol has slowly...
Oh, Say Can You See Clearly?
"Oh, say can you see." Many of us begin to feel a lump forming in our throat at the first musical strains and hearing that phrase. The late Paul Harvey explained our reaction to the National Anthem. He said, "It is our song as an American." As we stand and sing at...
Next year in Sharm el Sheikh
Tourism along the Sinai Peninsula’s Gulf of Aqaba coastline has staged a post-COVID revival of sorts thanks in large part to hordes of Israeli Jews headed in the (historically) wrong direction. This Passover, for example, roughly 3,500 years after leaving en masse,...
A Modern Day Ruth
Living in Cleveland, Ohio, in an all-Jewish neighborhood, Cynthia Schneider, the wife of Rabbi Kirt Schneider, often felt alienated while growing up. Whenever there was a Jewish holiday, she would stand alone at the bus stop for school. Jewish girls in the...
If There Are No Serious Attacks, We Can’t Talk
As the date and time was set for an interview, the text from Yuriy Bereza from Kyiv was received, “Shalom! If there are no serious attacks, we can talk!" Scheduling an interview with someone in a different country, especially one that is in the middle of a war in the...
Reach Initiative International in Ukraine
“It was absolutely heartbreaking. The devastation. The displacement. People were sometimes standing for more than twenty-four hours in the bitter cold waiting to be processed to cross the border. It is gut-wrenching to know these mothers, children, and the elderly...
The Russo-Ukrainian war and the lessons of Purim
These seem to be the days of Vladimir Putin, the president who presides over Russia, a federation spanning parts of Europe and Asia across eleven time zones, the ninth-most populous country on earth, and Kyiv, Ukraine home to over 145 million diverse souls. Romania...
Antisemitism – From the Crusades and Beyond
As the world recently observed Holocaust Remembrance Day, hopefully, every- one is learning and understanding that antisemitism, often described as “the oldest hatred,” has persisted throughout history, before and beyond the Holocaust. Because of this continuous...
A Culinary Celebration of Diversity!
In the early days of modern Israel—from the late 1800s to the late 1940s— almond flour. Those from Northern Africa make charoset truffle balls from most of the immigrants were Ashkenazi Jews from Europe. They came with their own culture, traditions, and adherence to...