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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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Elie Wiesel Foundation Awards Grant to Nonprofit Trio to “Restore the Rights and Dignity of the Uyghur Population”

  Kveller
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Phil Rosenthal Finally Learns to Love Matzah

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Israeli Singer Ofra Haza Is the True Star of ‘Prince of Egypt’

 
  American Jewish World Service – AJWS
President and CEO of American Jewish World Service to Step Down at the End of 2025 

Unlocking the Door for Elijah

As Trump politicizes human rights support, we’re taking cues from Kenya

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A Reflection from an AJWS Global Justice Fellow

           
     
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Elon Musk reportedly asked Ashley St. Clair not to circumcise his Jewish child

US claims Mohsen Mahdawi’s activism could ‘potentially undermine’ prospect of peace in Gaza

Noa Argamani, ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt among over a dozen Jews on 2025 TIME 100 list

‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex haredi Orthodox Jew in ‘Kugel’

My ‘mixed multitude’ Passover seder was a ringing, singing celebration of diversity

  NYT > World > Middle East
Trump Waved Off Israeli Strike After Divisions Emerged in His Administration

Iran Says Despite Shifting U.S. Messages, It Plans to Keep Participating in Nuclear Talks

Trump Aides Close State Dept. Office on Foreign Disinformation

Israel Threatens Further Escalation in Gaza War

Italy’s Meloni Heads to Washington to Meet Trump. Will It Pay Off for Europe?

  The Forward
‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex haredi Orthodox Jew in ‘Kugel’

Noa Argamani, ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt among over a dozen Jews on 2025 TIME 100 list

US claims Mohsen Mahdawi’s activism could ‘potentially undermine’ prospect of peace in Gaza

What Jewish university presidents say: Trump is exploiting campus antisemitism, not fighting it

Elon Musk’s newest baby could be Jewish — and he didn’t want the boy circumcised

 
       
     
  Aish.com
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Punishment of 40 (39) Lashes; 39 Forbidden Type of Shabbat Labor

How to End Passover with a Bang!

Too Much Information?: Passover

 
  Jew or Not Jew
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  Jewish NewsJewish News
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Music legend refuses Channel 5 request to remove hostage badge

Noa Argamani named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people

Man accused of arson at governor’s home said he was targeted over Gaza and Judaism

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  News & Views – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
US Urges Bibi to Walk Back Nomination of Eli Sharvit as Shin Bet Chief

NYC Doctor Fired Over Antisemitic Rants, Praise for Hamas & Hezbollah

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Shin Bet-Israel Police Operation Snags Hamas Terror Cell Run from Turkey

 
  Washington Jewish Week
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Lessons From the Exodus

 
  My Jewish Learning
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