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By Adam Reinherz. ‘We cannot lose focus on the joy and celebration of Sukkot, of being in community and celebrating our Judaism’. Oct. 27. Volunteering preserves memories and betters community ahead of Oct. 27. By Adam Reinherz. Six years after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, community members encouraged to use upcoming weeks to foster ...
In Netflix’s ‘Kissufim,’ a story about Israeli life on the Gaza border ...
Sep 26, 2024 · (JTA) — The latest Israeli film on Netflix has a setting and theme that, one year after Oct. 7, could not be more current: It centers on soldiers ending their service by volunteering at a kibbutz on the Gaza border.
Yael Eckstein takes the reigns of Fellowship for Christians & Jews
Nov 20, 2019 · Yael Eckstein takes the reigns of Fellowship for Christians & Jews. Yael opening food box with elderly woman, Nelli Barotko, glasses, white hair, headband, cane. Holding hands. It’s traumatic enough to experience the loss of a beloved parent, especially one who dies suddenly at the age of 67. But in February, soon after burying her father ...
Beyond ‘Bubbie,’ Jewish grandparent names get a reboot
Jun 7, 2018 · Barry Asman settled on “Z” as his grandpa name because it is the sound that begins the word “zayde,” but is “very contemporary,” his wife said. Malori and Barry Asman chose to go by “Bibi” and “Z” instead of the traditional “Bubbie” and “Zayde.” (Photo courtesy of Erin Herman) Betty Jo Hirschfield Louik also eschewed ...
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The ‘tunnel’ controversy at Chabad’s Brooklyn headquarters, …
Jan 10, 2024 · (New York Jewish Week) – On Tuesday, a group of Jewish men gathered to pray under a leaky white tent in the drizzling rain outside the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s world headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, draping their wet jackets over portable bookshelves and talking about what had happened there the previous afternoon.
100 years of debunking The Protocols: The fight goes on
Aug 18, 2021 · A significant moment in the history of the effort to combat antisemitism took place 100 years ago this August. The occasion was the detailed refutation of the most influential and conspiratorial antisemitic documents that ever appeared, “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.”. The writer of this historic refutation was Philip Graves ...
Ari Shaffir makes his own way in comedy - Pittsburgh Jewish …
Jan 9, 2023 · You have French fries and garbage on top of your salads,” he said before noting that Pittsburgh is a cool city like Nashville, Tennessee, or Austin, Texas, without the street cred. “Pittsburgh is still in a golden age of being artsy, and the Los Angelenos have not come yet,” he said.”. PJC. Ari Shaffir headlines the Improv Comedy Club ...
Israeli actor Michael Aloni is a hero in ‘Plan A’
Nov 10, 2022 · In “Plan A,” Michael (Michael Aloni) wants to make it clear to Max (August Diehl) that only one man is in the driver’s seat. (Photo courtesy of Menemsha Films) Though he wears no cape and has no superpowers, Michael Aloni’s character in the film “Plan A” has only one shot at preventing the deaths of millions and making sure the Jews ...
The tradition and wonder of a Jewish wedding ceremony
Aug 7, 2019 · Instead, ritual and tradition are woven together in Jewish weddings, creating a ceremony that is equal parts solemn and festive, legal and religious, festive and transactional. “A Jewish wedding is a conglomeration of different things from Jewish tradition,” explained Rabbi Emily Meyer, formerly of Bet Chaverim in Des Moines, Washington ...