For the past five years, a specialty “command center” that researches anti-Semitism has been operating inside the New England Patriots’ home stadium in this Boston suburb — and tracked a rise in Hitler glorification since last February.

Raacheli Fried, a Los Angeles native and resident of East Denver, organized a “Tehillim group,” a Psalms group, 11 years ago. People in the group recite Psalms for many reasons, among them a “complete healing,” a refuah shelemah, for sick people. A Tehillim group may also be organized to pray for a single person, as Essie Fleischmann has done.

As thousands of educators gather in Denver this week, July 3-7, for the National Education Association’s annual Representative Assembly, delegates will make decisions that influence what educational resources will be used by educators across the country. Historically, some delegates have pushed for the NEA to use anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist or biased  materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Those decisions raise an important question that extends well beyond one convention.

During the decades before the cemetery entrance was moved, visitors to Mt. Nebo entered through a park-like promenade called the George Washington Bicentennial Memorial Grove. At the center of the grove of 200 trees was an obelisk monument erected in 1932 by the Ladies Shroud Society of BMH Congregation in commemoration of George Washington’s 200th birthday.

On the horizon: a third anniversary since the Hamas horrors of Oct. 7, 2023. Eylon Levy remembers the Israeli war room like it was yesterday. “They needed people to talk to the media, and it was an atmosphere of all hands on deck,” Levy told the IJN. Levy became the English spokesperson for the Israeli government.

Ben & Jerry’s independent Israel operation has come up with a flavor that does not leave much to interpretation. Called “Milk and Honey,” the biblical description of the Land of Israel, its ingredients are supplied by Israeli cows and bees and its chocolate fudge pieces come shaped like Stars of David.