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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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  American Jewish World Service – AJWS
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Built for this moment: 40 years of advocating for human rights

AJWS Condemns Trump Administration Travel Ban 

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Risking jailtime, young Thai activists forge ahead for democracy

           
     
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bay Area synagogue mobilizes for two Palestinian visitors detained by border officials at airport

RFK appoints Israeli MIT professor who said ‘vaccines cause serious harm’ to vaccine advisory panel

Sympathy for Israelis drops among Republican voters, poll finds

Bosnian hotel cancels meeting of European rabbis amid anti-Israel pressure from prominent locals

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  NYT > World > Middle East
Why Israel May Be Considering an Attack on Iran

U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Braces for Possible Israeli Strike on Iran

U.N. Watchdog Rules That Iran Is Not Complying With Nuclear Obligations

Gaza Aid Group Says Hamas Attacked Its Palestinian Workers

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  The Forward
Trump is forcing liberal Zionists to confront an extraordinarily inconvenient truth

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A concert in memory of theater pioneer Joseph Papp

Bosnian hotel cancels meeting of European rabbis amid anti-Israel pressure from prominent locals

 
       
     
  Aish.com
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  Jew or Not Jew
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  Jewish NewsJewish News
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Air India plane crash: Netanyahu joins world leaders in expressing shock and sympathy

Donkeys rescued from Gaza border conflict flown from Israel to Europe

University of Birmingham suspends Friends of Palestine society after protest chants

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  News & Views – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
Argentine President Javier Milei Visits Jerusalem’s City of David

US Pulls Non-Essential Mideast Embassy Staff as Israel Prepares for War with Iran

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  Washington Jewish Week
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