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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

3 Years and Just Getting Started

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

  Kveller
Adam Sandler’s Mom Was Sarah Silverman’s Nursery School Teacher

Mark Feuerstein Is a Gun-Toting Hot Chabad Rabbi in This New Movie

Tom Lehrer Gave Us One of the Best Jewish Holiday Songs, ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica’

Here’s How I Know Our Kids Are Doing OK at Jewish Summer Camp

Marvel’s Jewish Character The Thing Is Played by a Jewish Actor for the First Time

 
  American Jewish World Service – AJWS
“Somos Pájaras”: Radical Joy and Belonging in the Dominican Republic

More Than a Promise: COLESDOM’s Fight for Intersex Rights

Stories of Hope: Patience, Passion and Power

Indigenous Kenyan activists successfully fend off evictions from their ancestral lands

How we fight fundamentalist “family values” movements in Africa — and how you can, too

           
     
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Julia Hyman, 27-year-old Midtown Manhattan shooting victim, mourned at Central Synagogue

Zohran Mamdani holds a wide edge among Jewish voters as he dominates in new NYC mayoral race poll

Lithuania scraps years of planning by Jewish groups to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site

Marjorie Taylor Greene may be first Republican lawmaker to call Gaza war a ‘genocide’

Tisha B’Av recalls a Jewish nation under siege. The war in Gaza flips the script.

  NYT > World > Middle East
What Countries Recognize a Palestinian State: A Map

Canada to Recognize Palestinian State at the U.N. General Assembly

Trump’s Mideast Envoy Heads to Israel Amid Global Fury Over Gaza Hunger

A Seaside Refuge in Gaza, Torn Apart by an Israeli Strike

What Would Recognizing a Palestinian State Mean?

  The Forward
A young Jewish organizer takes on Jerry Nadler in a generational challenge

These works by Issachar Ber Ryback commemorate, and transform, a devastated world

Marjorie Taylor Greene may be first Republican lawmaker to call Gaza war a ‘genocide’

Lithuania scraps years of planning by Jewish groups to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site

I have the answer to Jon Stewart’s toughest question about Israel

 
       
     
  Aish.com
Tattooed Together in Auschwitz

The Shema: The Profound Meaning of Our National Anthem

When Hamas Infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri

Finding Jewish Unity at St. Jude Children’s Hospital

When Plato Met Jeremiah

 
  Jew or Not Jew
James Gunn

Happy Gilmore

Luis von Ahn

Simon Magus

Nicholas Meyer

 
  My Jewish Learning
The Elijah I Want

Avodah Zarah 42

Raphael Lemkin: Father of the Genocide Convention

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7 Picnic-Worthy Jewish Recipes To Make This August

 
   
       
     
  Washington Jewish Week
Sidney Lazar

Robin Miller

Bender JCC Awarded Grant for Energy-Efficient Improvements

Americans’ Support for Israel in Gaza Plummets to Record Low

Lebanese Entrepreneur Provides Financial Support for U.S.-Israeli Opera Initiative

 
  Washington Jewish Week
Sidney Lazar

Robin Miller

Bender JCC Awarded Grant for Energy-Efficient Improvements

Americans’ Support for Israel in Gaza Plummets to Record Low

Lebanese Entrepreneur Provides Financial Support for U.S.-Israeli Opera Initiative

 
  My Jewish Learning
The Elijah I Want

Avodah Zarah 42

Raphael Lemkin: Father of the Genocide Convention

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7 Picnic-Worthy Jewish Recipes To Make This August

 
           
           
         

           
           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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