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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 

Tying Together Our Past, Present, and Our Future

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

  Kveller
10 Beautiful Jewish Songs About Motherhood

A Tribute to Jewish Comedian Joan Rivers Is Coming to NBC and Peacock

Paul Rudd Dishes on His Past as a Bar and Bat Mitzvah DJ

Gal Gadot to Star as Holocaust Survivor in Upcoming Movie

We Can’t Wait for Barbra Streisand’s New Album of Duets

 
  American Jewish World Service – AJWS
What “accompaniment” really means: A letter from our climate justice expert in Kenya

AJWS’s secret ingredient in the fight for human rights

Jill Minneman Elected Board Chair at American Jewish World Service 

A win for Indigenous rights in Mexico with a major constitutional reform

Stories of Hope, April 2025

           
     
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Former leaders of large Jewish groups call on them to speak out against ‘stunning assault on democratic norms’

Israeli spyware company NSO ordered to pay $167 million to WhatsApp

Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa decry ‘censorship’ after UK shows are scrapped under Israel boycott pressure

Leo XIV, first American pope, studied under a leader in Jewish-Catholic relations

Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech

  NYT > World > Middle East
In Israel’s Demolition Path, West Bank Residents Pack Up Their Lives

Documentary Identifies Israeli Soldier as Shooter of Palestinian American Journalist

The Huge, Under-the-Radar Shift Happening in the West Bank

Judge Says Trump Plan to Send Migrants to Libya Would Violate Court Order

Second U.S. Navy Jet in 2 Weeks Is Lost Off the U.S.S. Truman

  The Forward
Concert honoring Yiddish writer and editor Boris Sandler

Trump’s new pick for surgeon general blames the Nazis for pesticides on our food

Jewish feud over Trump escalates with open letter in The New York Times

First American pope, Leo XIV, studied under a leader in Jewish-Catholic relations

Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech

 
       
     
  Aish.com
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When Jews Started Driving to Shul

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  Jew or Not Jew
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  Jewish NewsJewish News
Israel’s President and Jewish leaders congratulate newly elected Pope Leo XIV

Terrorist involved in Daniel Pearl beheading killed by Indian airstrikes

“I stood proud in my kippah”: Jewish teen takes centre stage with royals at national VE Day service

Leap of faith: The day the Pope met the Rabbi

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  News & Views – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
Justice for Daniel Pearl: India Eliminates Terrorist Commander Behind His Murder

Israel Shuts Six UNRWA Schools in Jerusalem

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Massive Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah Infrastructure in Lebanon

Columbia U Invites NYPD to Remove Terror Supports After They Seize Butler Library

 
  Washington Jewish Week
OPEN LETTER FROM AMERICAN JEWISH LEADERS: STAND UP FOR JEWISH SAFETY AND DEMOCRACY

NYPD Arrests More Than 70 Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Columbia Library

CBS News Veteran Dan Raviv Educates on Foreign Policy Worldwide

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