op/ed: What sex in a traditional Shavuot reading can teach today’s teens
By Donna Kirshbaum OMER, Israel (JTA) — As Jews, we tend to pride ourselves on our tradition’s values and how we pass them on to future…
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President Rivlin addresses Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day ceremony
President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin, participated in the opening ceremony of Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, held at Yad Vashem, the…
Kids Kottage: Celebrating G-d’s Gifts this Spring
By Kids Kottage (EJNews) – Spring is finally here, and as we celebrate the end of another long winter, we also turn our minds and…
Chametz for a loonie – Best deal in town
(EJNews) – The traditional selling of chametz, before the start of Passover, to a gentile is a time honoured tradition in Judaism so that the…
I celebrate Passover because my parents couldn’t
By Olga Chernov-Gitin (Kveller via JTA) – My son is 4 1/2, a delightful age when he is still full of sometimes grammatically incorrect sentences…