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Commentary: An Interesting Read

Letters & Viewpoints / 08.16.2018

Commentary: An Interesting Read
Israeli Journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi’s professional credentials suggest that he should be a cynic, always looking at the glass as half-empty. Yet, he has a written a book, Letters t...
Tales From Israel – Intro And Rishon I’tzion

Blogs From Israel / 08.15.2018

Tales From Israel – Intro And Rishon I’tzion
An Introduction Trips to Israel were frequent over my lifetime. Both of my parents, Yonina and Meyer Mathis, had siblings and cousins who made Aliyah from Lithuania in the 1930’s. This small group ha...
Pride Parade

Israel / 08.09.2018

Pride Parade
jns.org Under heavy police security, thousands march in Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem. Amid tensions and mass protests over equal surrogacy rights for gay couples in Israel, tens of thousands of peo...
Service To Israel

Faith / 08.02.2018

Service To Israel
Rabbi Yoskowitz’s U.S. Army chaplaincy work honored at Ammunition Hill. Rabbi Herbert A. Yoskowitz Friday, June 15, 2018, is a day I will long remember. It was a hot, sunny day with a cloudless ...
TruckShuka Offers a Taste of Jerusalem

Arts & Life / 08.02.2018

TruckShuka Offers a Taste of Jerusalem
When Jerusalem native Benji Benoliel moved to the United States 15 years ago, he had no intention of parting with his Israeli roots. From a young age, he was enthralled by Israeli cuisine. Grow...
Misconduct Alleged

Israel / 07.26.2018

Misconduct Alleged
JTA and JN Staff Sociologist faces sexual harassment accusations. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the leading Reform seminary, has opened a Title IX investigation against well-kno...
Quest For Kindness

Metro Detroit / 07.26.2018

Quest For Kindness
Rabbi’s lifework is teaching us how to love and respect each other. Twenty years ago, Rabbi Tzvi Muller, then a yeshivah student in Israel, had a chance encounter on a Jerusalem street that shook up ...
Guest Column: ‘We Made History This Year in Jerusalem!’

Columns / 07.26.2018

Guest Column: ‘We Made History This Year in Jerusalem!’
That headline declaration is no hyperbole. It was spoken by David Harris on June 12 at Binyenei ha-Umah, the International Convention Center in Jerusalem. David is the extremely effective CEO of the A...
Israeli And American Perspectives On Holistic Health

Blogs From Israel / 07.23.2018

Israeli And American Perspectives On Holistic Health
Hello! My name is Noa. I was born in Israel, raised in Detroit and matured in Jerusalem. When I say “matured in Jerusalem,” I mean that when I moved here, I had no clue what I was getting myself i...
Tisha B’Av 101

Faith / 07.19.2018

Tisha B’Av 101
myjewishlearning.com Tisha b’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av (this year July 22), is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. Although many disasters are said to have befallen ...
From Damascus to Jerusalem – New Movie

Art & Culture / 07.19.2018

From Damascus to Jerusalem – New Movie
By Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel A 41-year-old novel reaches the big screen. Writer Howard Kaplan was a college junior when he visited Syria in 1971; now 'The Damascus Cover' is an indie th...
Guest Column: On Tisha b’Av, Remember The Holocaust

Columns / 07.19.2018

Guest Column: On Tisha b’Av, Remember The Holocaust
We are in the Jewish month of Av, a month of mourning for Jewish people. In the month of Av, we remember the many tragedies that have happened to us. More than 2,000 years ago on the ninth of Av, the ...
Weekly Torah Portion – From Sorrow To Joy

Spirit / 07.19.2018

Weekly Torah Portion – From Sorrow To Joy
Parshat D’varim: Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22; Isaiah 1:1-27. This Shabbat coincides with the 9th of Av on the Hebrew calendar. Known in Hebrew as Tishah b’Av, it is the day on which we annually mark the des...
Preserving Culture – Keter Torah

Metro Detroit / 07.12.2018

Preserving Culture – Keter Torah
Keter Torah marks 100 years of the Sephardic community in Detroit. The distinction between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Judaism is evident the moment one walks into the building that houses the Keter Tora...
Letters – July 5, 2018

Letters & Viewpoints / 07.05.2018

Letters – July 5, 2018
Welcome, Rabbi Lopatin I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article “Mixed Welcome” (page 10, June 21, 2018, issue). Our Metro Detroit Jewish community is distinguished by its diversity and inclusion....
Do Not Photograph

Art & Culture / 06.21.2018

Do Not Photograph
Rob Streit JN Intern Photographer Joshua Haruni documents everyday life in a Chasidic community in Israel. The cloistered world of Chasidic Judaism is one that seems inaccessible to the uninitiated....
This Narrow Space

Art & Culture / 06.21.2018

This Narrow Space
Sandee Brawarsky Special to the Jewish News A cancer doctor’s memoir of his years at Hadassah Medical Center crosses cultural, religious and political divides. One of Elisha Waldman’s patients at Ha...
Can You Dig It?

Israel / 06.21.2018

Can You Dig It?
Rob Streit JN Intern Former Detroiter follows his passion to an archaeology post in Israel. Benyamin Storchan says he feels like an Israeli who was mistakenly born in America. The 34-year-old Michig...
Letters – June 21, 2018

Letters & Viewpoints / 06.21.2018

Letters – June 21, 2018
In Support Of Trump Regarding Dr. Greenstein’s June 7, “In Support of Trump” and Berl Falbaum’s “A Gut Punch” commentaries (page 8), I support Dr. Greenstein’s comments in every respect and support P...
‘Overflowing With Optimism’

Israel / 06.14.2018

‘Overflowing With Optimism’
Israeli ambassador addresses Metro Detroit crowd. Expressing optimism for the future, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said that after 70 years of existence, Israel’s innovational advances a...
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