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Love Your Neighbor
Love Your Neighbor
Every summer when the weather heats up and sane people take refuge inside their apartments, I breathe a sigh of relief when I switch on the air conditioner. Not only for...
Aug 24, 2006
By Sheila Segal
The July 19th flight: Aliyah in Times of Unrest
The July 19th flight: Aliyah in Times of Unrest
Every chartered Aliyah flight is significant and has it’s own special signature. July 19 was certainly no exception. With a little over a week into the war against Hizbullah, hundreds of...
Aug 24, 2006
By Shelomo Dobkin
For the Sake of Peace
For the Sake of Peace
Seminary is a time for learning. Many of the lessons, however, cannot be gained from a book. All names have been changed for the sake of privacy. Jerusalem, 1975 The girls...
Aug 16, 2006
By Debbie Shapiro
The Hospital Room
The Hospital Room
My sixteen-year-old son bounded too energetically down a flight of stairs and twisted his ankle. No big deal, he thought. He went to the doctor on his own, and the first...
Aug 16, 2006
By Sheila Segal
Seeking Refuge
Seeking Refuge
A cool breeze blows on Shabbat evening as we sit on the white plastic Israeli-made swing. There are still vestiges of a multi colored sky which is slowly turning darker. Our...
Aug 10, 2006
By Adina Hershberg
Refugees of Time
Refugees of Time
We are among the lucky ones. We are not under missile attack anymore. We are in apartments with family, or friends, or share complexes with other families from the North. Some...
Aug 10, 2006
By Esther Rubenstein
Summertime Blues
Summertime Blues
How I am spending their summer vacation. Tuesday Today I insisted we do something educational, so we drove to a kids’ science museum where I got to lay down on a...
Aug 9, 2006
By Judy Gruen
Making the Rounds
Making the Rounds
Revisiting my bar-mitzvah, on its 70th anniversary The year 1936 was marked by many important events. Among them: FDR was elected to a second term as President of the United States,...
Aug 2, 2006
By Larry Rosen
In All the Dark Places
In All the Dark Places
From the pages of the OU’s JEWISH ACTION magazine (Summer 5766/2006) Listen to Steve Savitsky’s conversation with the converts themselves, on Around the Dining Room Table. It’s said that the “truth...
Aug 2, 2006
By Yitta Halberstam
A Sojourn in the Garden
A Sojourn in the Garden
Slideshow of a Sojourn How would I have known about Gan Eden if I had not seen it with my own eyes? It was a torrential expanse of beauty that hit...
Jul 11, 2006
By Varda Branfman

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