Kudos to the Jewish Community Center for stating a clear and thoughtful message regarding support for Israel. Rather than joining so many Jewish organizations by stating “We Stand With Israel,” its banner states: We Stand With The People of Israel.
In just a few weeks, we will fill the pews to hear Parshat Vayeira, the Torah portion in which Abraham, aged and childless, sits in the entrance of his tent when he sees — what’s that? Three strangers?
Let’s face it — it’d be foolish to sum up the year 5784 with sentimentality. Many positive things occurred since last Rosh Hashanah, and it’s important not to dwell in pessimism, but I assume if we all condensed 5784 into one word, I wouldn’t be allowed to print it in this paper.
In my line of work, I see a lot of antisemitism.As the Jewish Community Relation Bureau | American Jewish Committee’s (JCRB|AJC) director of education and programs, I am likely more familiar than most with the history of antisemitism and various contemporary manifestations of it.
Resilience. Exhaustion. Pride. Sorrow.
These are some of the feelings I have in late September 2024, nearly a year after Oct. 7, 2023.
If you’re reading this in The Jewish Chronicle, there’s a good chance you have never been inside a Christian Science Reading Room. But I have.
What I learned from creating The Chronicle’s Day of Discovery presentation
Did you know that August is National Make-A-Will month?
Local BBYO member Jonah Stein wrote about his experience shortly after his visit to Auschwitz on a BBYO Passport trip in early July.
This summer was our second Summer Learning Seminar with the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.
