Photo Credit: Mordechai Ben Avraham. In today’s episode of Leap of Faith, Penina speaks with Mordechai Ben Avraham, who shares his incredible story about his journey from Sufi Islam to the Kabbalah Center to ultimately becoming not just an orthodox Jew, but also a Rabbi, studying in Jerusalem. This episode will likely go down in […]
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Photo Credit: Danielle Shitrit / Flash 90 Rocket Gazing – Watching an Iron Dome intercept in Tel Aviv. Two and a half minutes before 2 am on a Friday night (Saturday am) in Be’er Sheva, the walls of the Negev capital’s most popular nightclub, The Forum, began to pulse red with the rise and fall […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press When three angels came to visit Avraham’s tent, they famously asked him, “Where (ayeh) is your wife Sarah?” (Genesis 18:9). After Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge and hid, G-d rhetorically asked him, “Where are you (ayeka)?” (ibid. 3:9). After Kayin killed his brother, G-d asked him, “Where (ey) is […]
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Here’s the sad paradox of the shooting nearly one year ago at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue: The killing of 11 worshippers, the worst attack on Jews in U.S. history, hit a community that was one of the best prepared to handle such an assault. In the year or so prior to […]
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TORONTO (JTA) — There’s a reason our moment demands a book called “How To Fight Anti-Semitism,” and it’s not just anti-Semitism’s violent global resurgence. American Jews — at least the liberal, pro-Israel majority — are at risk of becoming, as New York Times columnist Bari Weiss puts it, “politically homeless.” Right-wing anti-Semitism is, Weiss grants, […]
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Photo Credit: gpo United States Vice President Joe Biden at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not seen) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2016, during Biden’s official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. {Originally posted to the Emet m’Tsiyon website} Senator Joe Biden –a Democrat– […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Mesilas Yesharim (perek 4) says that according to the letter of the law there should be no room for teshuvah. He explains that this is because once the crime was committed how can one undo what was done? Can one bring back to life one who he has murdered? Says […]
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Photo Credit: Jason O’Rear / Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum During a time of increased anti-Semitism in the United States, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has just opened, the second of two major Holocaust museums to open in newly expanded quarters since the summer in Texas. […]
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Photo Credit: courtesy, Foundation for Jewish Camp The Marcus Foundation has awarded a $3.2 million grant to the Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) to support mental health across the spectrum of Jewish camps in North America. Funding will be awarded to approximately 60 camps over a four-year period in an unprecedented effort to increase services, […]
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