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Ruth-less society

WHEN we read the Book of Ruth next week on the holiday of Shavuot, we are reminded that all Jews are in essence converts. Some of us go back further […]

Numbers

Numbers have been on my mind lately. This coming week’s Torah portion inaugurates the reading of the next book of the Torah, Bamidbar, literally, “in the desert.”...

Holyland

The following joke is sadly funny: “Today is 2,190 days, which is 314 weeks, which is 6 years of Olmert” — a parody on the counting of the Omer between […]

‘Hatikva’ — hope

This past week, as celebrations of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s 66th Independence Day, swelled, a feeling of Jewish pride and thankfulness could be felt. Between the...

We remember them all

In tribute to this Sunday’s Yom Hazikaron — Israel’s memorial day for fallen soldiers — a lot of articles on the topic are circulating. One, by Israel National...

I was floored

WALKING through Crestmoor Park the other Shabbat, a couple, the guy’s head covered with a yarmulke and tzitzit (four-cornered tassles) protruding from his shirt, the...

The target was The Jew

It’s never a good time to hear about a painful senseless act of hate and violence against our people. But there is something additionally poignant about it that...

Happy Birthday, Aviv(a)

PASSOVER 5774 EDITION SECTION C PAGE 24 Every year, my niece Aviva has the longest birthday party in the world. She was born seder night. And boy is it fun […]

Foods from generation to generation

I confess: Come the holidays, and I am definitely a sentimental cook and eater. Proust’s famous tea-soaked madeleine that arrested time, transporting him to his...

One day at a time

I RECEIVED a very touching, very moving children’s book in the mail last week. Painfully, it is a book I wish the need for did not exist. It is called, […]