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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,...
The Eclectic Musical Talent of Rabbi Jan
When Rabbi Jan finally asked G-d, “If the music is so important, what’s more important?” G-d answered, “A false sense of perfectionism is more important to you.” After this very painful “blind spot” revelation, Rabbi Jan immediately found a studio and committed to...
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...
Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Angela* is the fruit of a wonderful mission partnership. Our Finnish friend, Pihla*, who has been doing her missionary work quietly but effectively for many years, has conducted numerous interviews with Hungarian Holocaust survivors. These valuable stories have...
Massah: Not a Program. An Experience
Most of us have heard of Machu Picchu, an abandoned 15th-century Inca citadel set upon an 8,000-foot-high mountain ridge in southern Peru. Last year in August, almost six hundred years after the fortress’s construction, the former Inca stronghold was visited by 14...
Happy New Year! Happy Passover! Uh…What? Which is it?
For most Jewish people, the first day of Tishri on the Biblical calendar is “The Jewish New Year.” We celebrate Rosh Hashanah or the “Head of the Year,” and the numeric designation changes, just as it did a few months ago from 5781 to 5782. Yet, this is the “first day...
The geometric nature of Israeli traffic
Whoever oversees such things in our part of Jerusalem recently began demolition of two iconic traffic circles in our neighborhood. Iconic in the sense that nearly everyone who lives in the area has risked his or her life on them. The circles connect to each...