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Open My Eyes That I May See Wonders In Your Torah

Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Israel, Counting the Omer, Omer 2012, Lag B'omer, Mysticism, Judaism, Hebrew, Religion News

May the fires of Lag B'Omer reveal deeper and deeper levels of revelation and the commitment to spread the light of Torah until the "farthest reaches" of our inner soul and to those around us.

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A German Town Mourns Its Holocaust Past: The DP Camp Story, Part 2

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Rwanda, Shoah, Church, Holocaust, Judaism, Harry Truman, Hebrew, Ulm Germany, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nazis, University of Pennsylvania, Jewish, Holocaust Museum, Genocide, Zionism, World War II, DP Camps, Displaced Persons, Lutheran, Culture News

A commissioned stained-glass window dedicated to the Holocaust portrays a gas chamber scene and bears a Star of David. To all who enter the church, it's a stark reminder of past atrocities

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Astoria Characters: The Well-Engineered Family

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Toy Plane, Oskar Schindler, Latin, Bricklayer, Greek, Polish, Baseball Cap, Financial Adviser, Federal Plaza, Leed, Czech, Jarda Nehybka, Simonek Nehybka, Communists, English, Martina Nehybka, Mezuzah, Hebrew, Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, Ascot, Maximek Nehybka, Salad, Construction, Engineer, Italian, Genetic Engineering, Spanish, Astoria, Moravia, Brno, Bohemia, New York News

Jarda Nehybka never thought he'd have a wife and two tow-headed toddlers, not at this age, 69.

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Israelis Never Say Sorry

Louie Dane | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Foreign Language, Hebrew, Israel, High School News

I learned Spanish in high school. Then when I was 15, I came to Israel for the first time. Spanish was useless on the streets of Jerusalem. All I wanted to do was be able to speak Hebrew.

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Homeward Bound

David Suissa | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Israelites, Hebrew, Washington, Jewish People, Israel, Two-State, Hasbara, Rothchild, World News

I come to a land that calls me home Pulled in by the suns of August. On each visit, the eyes utter the same words: Electric. Messy. Miracle. This t...

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Scholars Seeking To Correct 'Mistakes' In The Bible (

AP | By MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Jews, Religion, Video, Bible, Judaism, Bible Scholars, Christianity, Christians, Hebrew, Scholarship, Scholars, Israel, Orthodox Judaism, Religion News

JERUSALEM -- A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of ...

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Berkeley's Newest Urban Farm Is Totally Mobile

Anneli Rufus | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Hebrew, Farming, Jewish, Urban Farming, Berkeley, Bay Area, Agriculture, Organic Farming, San Francisco News

While all urban farms aim to heal the world, Berkeley's newest such enterprise is going at it from an environmental, educational, social-justice and spiritual angle.

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Reviving Hebrew

Mira Sucharov | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hebrew, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, Judaism, Jewish Education, Jewish Education Reform, Hebrew Knowledge, Jewish Literacy, Jewish Summer Camp, Jewish Culture, Hebrew Literacy, Religion News

There is much hand-wringing over Jewish continuity, but less attention paid to Jewish literacy. One factor that is especially neglected -- to our peril -- is the centrality of Hebrew language knowledge.

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Divine Earth, Divine Mother

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Environment, Wikipedia, Earth, Mother, Hebrew, Divine Feminine, Holy Spirit, Shekinah, Earth Day, Christian, Healthy Living News

Lately I've been on a kick: I'm reading books set in the 1940s and earlier. They detail the stories of the lives of their times. I've recently noticed, though, that no one ever mentions the environment. It wasn't on their radar.

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Brooklyn Bar Mitzvah Teen Pays it Forward All the way to Japan

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Shelter, Emergency Shelter, Brooklyn, Edsbrooklyn, Hebrew, Teenage, Japan Tsunami, Japan, Tikkun Olam, Sendai, Brooklyniac, Japan Earthquake, Bake Sale, Raise, Emergency Aid, Bar Mitzvah, Shelterbox, Impact News

For those of you who do not know, every Bar or Bat Mitzvah child is obligated to undertake a project to do Tikkun Olam, Hebrew for "repairing the world."

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American Midterm Candidates Pandered for Pro-Israel Money and Votes

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Boxer, House Energy and Commerce Committee, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Jerusalem, West Bank, Tom Campbell, Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, Jane Harman, Pro-Israel, Palestine, Illinois Senate Race, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Henry Waxman, Temple Ramat Zion, Marcy Winograd, Democrats, Palestinians, Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine, Republican Mark Kirk, Gaza, Loyalty, Midterm Elections, Hebrew, Brad Sherman, Native-American, Aipac, California's 27th Congressional District, Mohawk, Carly Fiorina, Huffington Post, Indigenous, Apache, Politics News

Israel and the United States are not one country. Being pro-Israel should not wield so much power that it becomes a principal issue in American elections.

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"Price Tag" Reprisals Against Palestinians in Hebron

Joseph Dana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Bank, Israeli Occupation, Clashes in Hebron, Hebrew, Palestinians, Idf, Hamas, Israel, World News

Since last week's fatal shooting of four settlers from the settlement of Beit Haggai, Palestinians in the area have been subjected to what the settlers call "price tag" reprisal attacks and repeated Israeli army incursions.

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Israeli Scientists Warn: Arabic Is "Hard for the Brain"

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bbc, British Broadcasting Corporation, Alphabet, Scientist, Hebrew, Science, Media, Kanji, Language, Anime, Brain, Health, Arabic, Japanese, Katakana, Japan, Israel, International, Hiragana, World News

BBC News Online's Health division decided this week to cover an obscure article in an obscure academic journal which covers the important subject of the Arabic versus Hebrew language.

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Standing In Solidarity Against Islamophobia

Mary Ann West | Posted 05.25.2011

The current tide of anti-Muslim sentiment has increased the call of religious leaders and lay people to come out and show their support amid heightened instances of vocal and physical hate mongering.

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The Bible and Human 'Dominion' Over Animals: Superiority or Responsibility?

Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Intelligence, Cats, Hebrew, Time Magazine, Bible, Genesis, Animals, Translation, Old Testament, Hebrew Bible, Interpretation, Dogs, Religion News

Part of the story of God's creating the universe in seven days involves creating a cosmos that God made to be good. Human beings must maintain an order that allows each thing to be and do all of what it is and does, animals included.

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Netanyahu In 2001: 'America Is A Thing You Can Move Very Easily'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clinton White House, Jerusalem, Hebrew, Benjamin Netanyahu, Oslo, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister, World News

A newly released video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could add some additional strain to the sometimes tense relationship between him a...

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No Jewish 'Lord Of The Rings' Ever?

Jewish Review of Books | Michael Weingrad | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tolkein, Jewish Fantasy, Narnia, The Hobbit, Nazis, Lord of the Rings, Hebrew, Fantasy Books, Jewish Books, Aryan, Cs Lewis, Fantasy, Bestsellers, Authors, Books News

Although it might seem unlikely that anyone would wonder whether the author of The Lord of the Rings was Jewish, the Nazis took no chances. When the p...

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Muslims & Non-Muslims Hear about Terrorist Threat, Solutions at Harvard Club

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Peace Corps Assoc., Pakistan, 9/11, Technology, U.S., London, Karen Zraick, Goldman Sachs, Muslim, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Journalists, Jim Luce, Harvard Law School, Non-Profit Organizations, Terrorist Threat, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Search for Common Ground, Paul Stevers, Extremist Violence, Alliance of Civilizations, Chi, Non-Muslim, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Peace Through Moderation, Kiran Khalid, Fulbright 2.0, Harvard University, Islamabad, Philanthropist, Global Peace Index, ABC News, U.S. Muslim Engagement Project, Juan Mendez, Canadian Entrepreneur, NBC News, America Abroad Media, Shape of the Future, Thought Leaders, Arabic, Jonathan Moreland, Hebrew, Violent Extremism, NGO Leaders, Peter Jennings, Chic Dambach, International Alert, Birzeit University, Soliya, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lucas Welch, Harvard Club, Center for International Conflict Resolution, Peace Corps, Cnn, Columbia University, Wall Street, Cairo, New York Times, Afghanistan, CharityHelp International, Domestic Terrorism, InsiderInsights.Com, Ptm, World News

An accomplished and diverse group of people -- Muslim and non-Muslim -- who share a common concern about growing extremism and the threat it poses to ...

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Dr. Seuss In Yiddish?

Boing Boing | Cory Doctorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: One Fish Two Fish, Hebrew, Books, Children's Books, Translations, Dr. Seuss, Yiddish, Books News

Yiddish House press has translated several classic kids' books into Yiddish, a curious and wonderfully expressive language spoken mostly by Jews of Ea...

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Biblical Social Justice and Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human, Social Justice, Mosaic, Jubilee, Teachings of Jesus, Media, Campaign, Hebrew, Evangelicals, American, Mainline, Black, Prophet, Pastors, Protestant, America, Government, Theology, Pentecostal, Christ, Teaching, Justice, Congregations, Code Word, Hispanic, Catholic, Christians, Church, Prophets, Jesus, Pentecost, Usccb, Nae, Biblical, Pastor, Evangelical, Black Churches, Context, Pornography, Communism, Catholic Church, Jesus Christ, National Association of Evangelicals, Churches, U S Conference of Catholic Bishops, Nazi, Glenn Beck, Black Church, Glenn Beck Social Justice, Glen Beck Social Justice, Glenn Beck Jim Wallis, Jim Wallis Glenn Beck, Jim Wallis, Glenn Beck Social Justice Church, Beck Social Justice, Glenn Beck and Social Justice, Jim Wallis Beck, Jim Wallis Glen Beck, Glenn Beck Church, Religion News

Glenn Beck says Christians should leave their social justice churches, so I say Christians should leave Beck. Beck attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show.

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"Ajami": A Film to Challenge the Israeli and Palestinian Narratives?

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Academy Awards, Hebrew, Scandar Copti, Academy Award Nominees, Israel, Palestine, Oscars, Film, Yaron Shani, Arabic, Ajami, Movies, Politics, Middle East, Palestinian, Israeli, World News

Hitting US theaters today is Ajami, Israel's contender at this year's Academy Awards, which has also been garnering praise at Cannes and other interna...

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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriage, Hebrew, Greek, Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed, Love, Felipe, Eat Pray Love, Comitting to Marriage, Books News

While Committed is no Eat, Pray, Love, it's delightful in its own way.

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When Being Jewish is Enough

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jews, Religion, Germany, Judaism, Bible, Hebrew, Christianity, Yiddish, Newfoundland, Tikkun Olam, Conversion, Mezzuzah, Healthy Living News

In the past several weeks, I've opened my front door to well-dressed people -- men and women, Black and white -- whose sole purpose seemed to be to talk to me about Jesus.

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Israel Road Signs To Read In Hebrew Only

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Road Signs, Foreign Affairs, English, Israel Road Signs Hebrew, Hebrew, Arabic, Israel, Advocacy, World News

In what is sure to be a controversial move, the Israeli Transport Authority announced a new policy on Monday whereby all road signs will read only in ...

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Israeli Border Police Abuses Hit YouTube, Filed Under 'Comedy' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Arabs, Foreign Affairs, Israeli Border Police, Hebrew, Arabic, Border Police Israel, Israel, Israeli Border Police Abuses, Advocacy, Video, Israeli Border Police Video, Israeli Border Guard Youtube, Haaretz Israel Border Police Huffington, Israel Police Border, Israeli Border Videos, World News

Videos posted to YouTube last year have emerged that show Israeli Border Police harassing and humiliating Palestinians for their own amusement, Haaret...

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