By Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. The history of hate extends beyond our understanding of time and space. From Cain killing Abel to the present day, we have learned nothing about controlling the impulses to destroy that which we hate. It is a disease that festers and grows because we allow it to flourish. Humankind was…
Yael Lerman and Jonathan Bell of the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department regularly receive questions from high school and college students facing antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents. They experience hate in-person and online and come to us for legal guidance. Every situation is unique. The below aims to help students understand U.S. law. Q: A teacher/student leader…
Photo courtesy Rabbi Billy. By David Benjamin Lex / El Inde The line to meet with the Rebbe was as long as ever. Any time Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson would open his doors in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY to receive visitors, hundreds of people from all over the world would gather. Many were neatly dressed…
By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell I am going to name 10 things, and I’d like you to tell me what they all have in common: The number of days from the beginning of the month of Elul until Yom Kippur The number of days that it rained on Noah and the ark The number of days…
By Whimsy Anderson, N.D. Every year we hear suggestions intended to help people have an easier fast on Yom Kippur. Many of the suggestions can be quite helpful; others are not. This year I have decided to compile a list of what I hope will be helpful suggestions based on a naturopathic medical perspective. Before…
By Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D. Rosh Hashanah is the time when Jews take stock of their lives and consider new beginnings. Perhaps the most significant and meaningful change that Jews should consider this year is a shift away from diets that have been having devastating effects on our health and the health of our increasingly…
Photo: Sam Fox, founder and CEO of Fox Restaurant Concepts By Marq Burnett – Reporter, Nashville Business Journal The final phase of the Sam Fox and Justin Timberlake-backed venue now has an opening date. Fox, a 12-time James Beard Award-nominated restaurateur, announced that the rooftop and Supper Club portions of The Twelve Thirty Club will…
Photo: Ben & Jerry’s ice cream pints with Hebrew lettering. (Linda Gradstein via JTA.org) By Ron Kampeas Arizona has become the eighth state to begin reviewing whether Ben & Jerry’s plans to withdraw from doing business in the West Bank merits sanctions under its law targeting the Israel boycott movement. In emails obtained by the Jewish Telegraphic…
By Dan Shufelt There is a hallowed, revered residence in Amsterdam – it is the Anne Frank House. The museum of today stands where the Frank family went into hiding from the Nazis in July, 1942. It’s unfathomable to me to think of the hate that would cause human beings to hunt down and exterminate…
Dr. Michael Laitman When the world is consumed by fire, inundated in floods, and crippled by a global plague, only one remedy can really help: union. Only our solidarity, our sense of mutual responsibility, can lift us above the impairments that nature has imposed on us. We may think that we must tackle each crisis…
