Tuesday September 26, 2017 | 6 Tishri 5778
Yom Kippur starts in the evening of Friday, Sept. 29. Will you fast? How will you approach it?
It’s easy to forget that Israel is over 6,000 miles away when standing in front of 700 supporters at our annual Yom HaAtzmaut celebration. It’s moments like these that make me feel like I’ve been a member of the Midwest Jewish community forever. It reminds me what I already know – that the Jewish people […]
Rabbi David B. Cohen wrote this piece days after the Aug. 12 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Blood and soil – in German, “Blut und Boden,” was a Nazi rallying cry, a nativist insistence that one’s legitimacy as a German was determined by one’s blood and one’s connection to the land. To […]
You’ve got to respect those who find small moments to stand up for the Jewish people. It makes you figure they’re probably doing it all the time, with a little moment here, a little moment there. Rabbi Dena Feingold found one such moment on Aug. 21, when she asked a question at a live CNN […]
My eldest grandchild, Noah, just graduated middle school. Here is what he wrote to us: “I don’t know if I said this already, but thanks so much for the graduation money. This is a pretty big milestone for me. I’m starting summer school tomorrow! It feels weird going back to school, and even weirder that […]
Big. Beautiful. Inspiring. Those were the expectations given in the introductory remarks at the concert of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, performing the music of Rabbi Michel Twerski, on June 25, 2017, at the Historic Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. Bull’s eye. Bull’s eye. Bull’s eye. It was already a given that the concert, combining the niggunim […]
The Chicago Dyke March is where the anti-Israel far-left revealed itself. It’s where we get to see how far the far-left has finally and so creatively traveled. They’ve marched right off the map, into a distant land of make-believe. The Chicago Dyke March Collective’s most recent annual march, on June 24, again celebrated the lesbian […]
The president is speaking a different language. He speaks in values, not literal English. No reason to be alarmed? Could any reasonable person think the exceedingly professional and measured mayor of London is telling people there’s no reason to be alarmed about terror? In fact, in the video where the mayor says there’s “no […]
Fran Assa of Shorewood reviews current film and finds a reveal of women’s experiences in ways that are achingly true, for the most part. * * * Something is happening in Israeli/Israeli-Palestinian film production that is unique. It is the deliberate and forceful exploration of fundamental philosophical questions: what is a man, and what […]
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