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On any given day there are many things that you really look forward to doing, but there are always a few things on your to do list that you dread.  Usually those dreaded chores are on your list all week long.  Initially, this dvar Torah started on the looking forward to list but eventually got pushed back day by day to the day before panic list. It’s easy to remember the things that you wanted to avoid.  I still remember as a child being in bed watching the clock and hoping my parents would not come to my room and say wake up it’s time to go to Sunday school.  As an adult, an avoidance item was going to Shabbat services, however, through intense personal growth and a significant amount of shame, I feel blessed to have found meaning in Judasim and I feel blessed ........READ MORE.

 
 
     
   
   

           
 
   
           
     
           
       
  Jewish World Watch
Newsweek: America Is Buying Chinese Goods—and Supporting China’s Genocide | Opinion

The Humanity of it All: JWW Statement on the Israel-Hamas War 

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Elie Wiesel Foundation Awards Grant to Nonprofit Trio to “Restore the Rights and Dignity of the Uyghur Population”

  Kveller
An Ode to the Larger Than Life Jewish Mothers of Lena Dunham’s ‘Too Much’

My Toddler Loves This Jewish Lullaby About a Calf Being Slaughtered

Jewish Comedian Alex Edelman to Star in New ‘The Office’ Reboot

This Yiddish Word Is Good for My Mental Health and Bad for My Bank Account

This New Documentary About Elie Wiesel Comes Right on Time

 
  American Jewish World Service – AJWS
Inspiration from Kenya on World Indigenous Peoples Day

The Stakes are High in the Pan-African Fight for Safe Abortions

“Somos Pájaras”: Radical Joy and Belonging in the Dominican Republic

More Than a Promise: COLESDOM’s Fight for Intersex Rights

Stories of Hope: Patience, Passion and Power

           
     
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Argentine lawmaker indicted over anti-Israel social media posts, in a first

Germany suspends military exports to Israel for use in Gaza

Rabbi and family safely escape fire at historic New Jersey synagogue

Brian Lehrer quizzes Mamdani on how his ‘Not On Our Dime’ bill would have affected synagogues

Neuroscience has a name for the way so many Jews are feeling today: learned helplessness

  NYT > World > Middle East
Netanyahu’s Plan for Gaza City Has Skeptics in Israeli Military

What to Know About the Israeli Hostages Still Held in Gaza

Netanyahu Broadly Criticized at Home and Abroad After New Gaza Plan

As Gaza Hunger Crisis Worsens, Israel Lets in Little Aid

Israel Says It’s Preparing to Take Control of Gaza City. What Does That Mean?

  The Forward
Everything’s terrible — but at least there are Moomins

Roman Polanski’s take on the Dreyfus Affair is perfect for 2025. That’s the problem

His grandfather’s Holocaust stories didn’t add up — so he set out to tell the fact-checked version

The Jewish Federation isn’t evolving on Israel. So it’s losing young Jews like me

Netanyahu says report that he and Trump got into shouting match over Gaza aid is ‘fake news’

 
       
     
  Aish.com
If Appropriate

The Story of Lilith

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Va’etchanan 5785: Small by Design

Israel Archaeology Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

 
  Jew or Not Jew
Abe Pollin

Sidney J. Furie

John Matrix

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  My Jewish Learning
Six Words

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Get Your Copy of The Nosher’s High Holidays Community Cookbook!

 
   
       
     
  Washington Jewish Week
Chabad of Upper MoCo Rabbi, Cantor Donate a Kidney

Phyllis Fingerhut, Silver Spring Resident and Kemp Mill Synagogue Member, Dies at 89

Israel Approves Plan to Take Over Gaza City, Setting Oct. 7 Deadline for Civilians to Leave

Major Diaspora Philanthropists Call on Netanyahu to End War

Israel Is at a Strategic Crossroads in Syria. What’s Next?

 
  Washington Jewish Week
Chabad of Upper MoCo Rabbi, Cantor Donate a Kidney

Phyllis Fingerhut, Silver Spring Resident and Kemp Mill Synagogue Member, Dies at 89

Israel Approves Plan to Take Over Gaza City, Setting Oct. 7 Deadline for Civilians to Leave

Major Diaspora Philanthropists Call on Netanyahu to End War

Israel Is at a Strategic Crossroads in Syria. What’s Next?

 
  My Jewish Learning
Six Words

Healthy Tzimmes Recipe

Avodah Zarah 52

Avodah Zarah 51

Get Your Copy of The Nosher’s High Holidays Community Cookbook!

 
           
           
         

           
           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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