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JUDAISM
INCLUSION & RESPECT
The Hebrew word “shalom” encompasses well-being, completeness, welfare and safety—all springing from its original meaning of “peace.”
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
It was “an act of conscience, principle and even peaceful disobedience.”
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Jewish-American Heritage Month: A Reminder of the Blessing to Our Nation the Jewish People Have Been
The story of the Jewish people is the ultimate allegory for perseverance. With origins almost as old as history itself, the Jews, through millennia of privation and persecution yet endured and prevailed.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
The latest edition of Duden, the leading dictionary of standard German, recently added a notation to its entry of “Jude” (Jew).
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Prince Charles met one of the survivors, 98-year-old Lily Ebert, who, showing him the numbered wrist tattoo forced upon her at Auschwitz said, “Meeting you, it is for everyone who lost their lives.”
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
What a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge did by interpreting scripture and failing to consult religious authorities on a matter of church doctrine was wrongful.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The story of the one-day’s supply of oil that lasted for eight is the story of the Jewish people—a culture and a religion whose flame should have flickered out time and time again but kept burning.
TOLERANCE
Today’s bullies are tomorrow’s bigots, and today’s victims of bullies need a hand to help reclaim their lives, their confidence and their potential.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The sounding of the shofar is a call to awaken from complacency, and to simply look and see.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
A one-of-a-kind study encompassing the increasing numbers of Jews of color—African Americans, Asians, mixed races and others of non-white descent—has turned conventional wisdom as to the definition of a Jew on its head, and has revived echoes of the age-old legend of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
