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Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) 5772

Many Jews have a strong negative reaction if people bring up other genocides in a discussion about the Holocaust. This

If you ask people what one word comes to mind if you say Passover, most Jews will respond with “freedom.”

I spent all of Yom Kippur last year in a hospice in Denver, Colorado. In an institution filled with people

On Yom Kippur we read the story of Jonah, the reluctant prophet who fled from his God-assigned mission on a

When someone in the USA commits a “Federal offense,” and are convicted of the crime, they are sentenced according to

At 7:00am California time on September 11, 2001, I was at home in Los Angeles, still in bed, when