Dr. Rick Hodes, an Orthodox Jew who lives in Addis Abeba, examines a young Ethiopian boy. Courtesy of JDC From outside, the medical clinic of…
Fall 2010 (5771)
Simanim—Sign Me Up for a Sweet, Healthy New Year!
It is unusual to have so much laughter at a shivah, but there was plenty of laughter, mixed with tears, as the six children of…
Translated and Adapted from the Hebrew by Yocheved Lavon Ruins of the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, 1967. Photo: Moshe Milner/Israel Government…
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Illustration: Nachman Hellman/www.nachmanhellman.com I was a yeshivah student. My chavruta Elchanan and I would study together all week, and on Fridays we would roam the…
Have you ever wondered why Avraham was the first patriarch of the Jewish people? Probably not; the reason is so obvious. We have grown up…
In my childhood, a half-century ago in Buffalo’s North Park neighborhood that served as a passage point between the East Side of Eastern European immigrants…
Overlooking the terraces at Sataf Photos: www.sassontiram.com Growing up in New York in the 1950s, my connection with the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael)…
MISCONCEPTION: The person who sprinkles the ashes of a parah adumah (“red heifer”) on a tamei (ritually impure) person becomes tamei himself. FACT: Most…
