Hanukkah is known as the Festival of Lights. It tells the story of the Maccabees, ancient Israelite revolutionaries who win independence from the oppressive rule of the Syrian Greeks. However, even …
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Contributed by Caroline Sim
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12/15/23
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It’s been a few short weeks since Israel declared war on Hamas, and the conflict has proven incredibly divisive. Lynbrook officials and community members are standing with their …
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By Nicole Formisano
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10/27/23
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“Blessed be God who worked miracles for our forefathers in those days, at this time.” The Chanukah candle-lighting blessing is a contradiction in terms. After all is it “in those days” or “at this time”?
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12/16/22
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It has been said that we are what we eat, so when the late Rabbi Harold Shulweis wrote, “On Passover, Jews eat history,” he told us that the Passover holiday menu offers instruction with each bite along with a lesson on how we learn and why.
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By Rabbi Dennis Ross
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4/14/22
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Neither Russia nor the Ukraine has ever been a welcoming homeland for the Jewish people. Despite the singing and dancing in “Fiddler on the Roof” . . .
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3/3/22
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As Jews gather this Friday evening, we will be welcoming the Sabbath, as well as Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year of 5781. During the upcoming High Holy Days — the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — we will engage in prayer and reflect on the year that has passed. Without a doubt, the intention we bring to our prayers will be influenced by the unprecedented global health crisis of these past seven months.
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By Rabbi Sandra Bellush
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9/17/20
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If there is any topic guaranteed to irritate readers more than politics, it’s religion, but here goes a true story. In the innocent days before the plague of Covid-19 . . .
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8/8/20
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In response to several instances of hate crimes and anti-Semitism in the U.S., New York lawmakers recently announced legislation aimed at ensuring that “students are taught the hateful intolerance of the swastika and noose” and other symbols of hatred in order to educate them about the history of those symbols.
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By Mike Smollins
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8/29/19
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In the second century BCE, a small group of courageous Jews rose up against their oppressors who had outlawed Jewish rituals and freedom of worship.
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By Rabbi Sandra Bellush
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12/6/18
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The Hippocratic Oath has been passed down through the ages because it contains some perennial wisdom: I will keep the sick from harm and injustice. I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asks for it, nor make a suggestion to this effect.
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9/21/18
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