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On any given day there are many things that you really look forward to doing, but there are always a few things on your to do list that you dread.  Usually those dreaded chores are on your list all week long.  Initially, this dvar Torah started on the looking forward to list but eventually got pushed back day by day to the day before panic list. It’s easy to remember the things that you wanted to avoid.  I still remember as a child being in bed watching the clock and hoping my parents would not come to my room and say wake up it’s time to go to Sunday school.  As an adult, an avoidance item was going to Shabbat services, however, through intense personal growth and a significant amount of shame, I feel blessed to have found meaning in Judasim and I feel blessed ........READ MORE.

 
 
     
   
   

           
 
   
           
     
           
       
  Jewish World Watch
Newsweek: America Is Buying Chinese Goods—and Supporting China’s Genocide | Opinion

The Humanity of it All: JWW Statement on the Israel-Hamas War 

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  Kveller
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When Judge Judy Taught Amy Poehler About the Borscht Belt

 
  American Jewish World Service – AJWS
Welcoming Tawanda Mutasah as AJWS’s new President and CEO

Global Jewish Human Rights Organization Taps Tawanda Mutasah as Its Next President and CEO

Welcoming Tawanda Mutasah, AJWS’s new President and CEO

AJWS grantee contributes to monumental advancement for trans rights in Thailand

Stories of Hope: January 2026

           
     
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Invoking Torah, Minnesota Jews mobilize against ICE operations

Israeli comedian Guy Hochman’s NYC show canceled amid protests, one day after he was detained in Canada

San Diego Jewish groups decry disinvitation of rabbi from MLK Day event over ‘concerns about potential disruption related to Zionism’

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Penn calls Trump administration demand for list of Jewish employees ‘disturbing and unconstitutional’

  NYT > World > Middle East
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U.S. Starts Moving ISIS Detainees From Syria to Iraq

Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 11, Including Three Journalists

U.S. Pivot in Syria Leaves an Old Ally in the Lurch

Israel Seizes UNRWA’s Jerusalem Headquarters

  The Forward
Julie Menin wants to be a bridge in the Mamdani era

How an ‘all-American boy’ became a Mississippi synagogue arson suspect

Is the ‘Board of Peace’ just another Trump scam, or a real move toward Middle East peace?

Penn calls Trump administration demand for list of Jewish employees ‘disturbing and unconstitutional’

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  Aish.com
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  Jew or Not Jew
Brigitte Bardot

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  My Jewish Learning
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  Washington Jewish Week
Laurie Snyder

Margaret Lawson

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  Washington Jewish Week
Laurie Snyder

Margaret Lawson

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  My Jewish Learning
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