The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my ...
If the past year has taught anything, it’s that banking on a hostage deal is a bad idea. But those odds appear to be changing ...
Many have promoted this lesson. I think initially about our Torah. Deuteronomy teaches us (32:7), "Remember the days of old; ...
Two blocks away: a school reduced to ruins. Across the street: rubble. Under the door: ashes. And yet at Kehillat Israel, ...
Daniel Sher’s voice broke as he related the latest to members of his Pacific Palisades synagogue. Kehillat Israel had just ...
It’s hard to believe we are standing at the threshold of 2025. It feels like just yesterday we were bracing for the Y2K bug, ...
It goes by many names — grit, resilience, tenacity, resolve, perseverance. It means the ability to tolerate life’s ups and ...
A synagogue with more than 100 years of history in Pasadena, California, burned down overnight as fires swept across parts of ...
Before Oct. 7, 2023, before the hostages, before the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and beyond, Israel was being torn apart by a fight ...
The question of whether American Jews should criticize Israel has nothing to do with free speech, or democracy, or peace in ...
Announcing his deputy envoy for Middle East peace, President-elect Donald Trump made it clear that he chose Morgan Ortagus ...
Happily, days before the families arrived on Sunday, Dec. 29, more than 50 people let Baer know they wanted to volunteer. Baer, a longtime CBI member and former Mensch Club Tikkun Olam coordinator, ...