What We Learn From the Determined Fish: A poem for Torah Portion Vayechi
Rick Lupert
January 9, 2020
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Vayishlach: You name it
Jewish Journal
December 5, 2014
Something very strange happens at the juncture of last week’s parsha (Vayetze) and this week’s (Vayishlach). In the last verse of Veyetze (Genesis 32:3), Jacob saw angels and said, “This is the camp of God” – and he named the place Machanayim, which means “two camps.”
Noa, Noam most popular names for Jewish babies in Israel
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December 2, 2013
Noa for girls and Noam for boys were the most popular names for Jewish babies born in Israel in 2012.
Grandma Who?
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March 25, 2009
Growing up, I called my grandmother Grandma.\n\nWe were Jewish, but also American. There was never any question but that my grandma would be Grandma. Even if she was born in the Old Country and, like all my friends and all their grandparents, spoke with a Yiddish accent. I used to think, in fact, that in order to be a grandparent you had to have been born in the Old Country and speak with a Yiddish accent.
Big list o’ Jewish Olympians
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August 5, 2008
The following is a list of known Jewish athletes competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Your Inner Joseph
Rabbi Mordecai Finley
January 12, 2006
Each of us lives a spiritual journey. One of greatest tasks in life is to know our journey, to understand its contours and what it demands of us. The Torah teaches us these journeys, these paths into our center.
A Blessing for the Father
Rabbi Eli Hecht
June 17, 2004
A few months ago I flew from Long Beach to Brooklyn. It was a long, sad and lonely trip. A few days earlier, my mother had turned 82 years old and was looking forward to a special birthday, when tragedy struck. A fire broke out in her home. Quickly, her life was taken by fire and smoke. No goodbyes or time to prepare for closure, just a cruel death.
My father survived the fire but lives daily with his memories. He now spends his time living a day or a week with different children and grandchildren. He recently came to California to join our family for the holidays. Even though the children and grandchildren were here something big was missing. Yes, our dear mother, the grandmother, was missed.
What’s Portuguese for Cohen?
Marcus Moraes
April 29, 2004
A major new tool can help Brazilians learn about their possible Iberian Jewish origins: the "Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames," a 528-page tome featuring some 17,000 surnames of Sephardic Jewish families from Portugal, Spain and Italy and their descendants.
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