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Tisha B’Av 101
- August 1, 2024
Courtesy of MyJewishLearning. Photo credit: Zion Ozeri/Jewish LensTisha B’Av services at the Western Wall in […]
Letter to the Editor: August 1, 2024
- August 1, 2024
Dear Editor, Though I retired from writing letters to local and national media editors and […]
The Knesset just voted against Palestinian statehood. Here’s all the ways that’s bad for Israel.
- August 1, 2024
By David A. Halperin (JTA) — In advance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to […]
Parshat Matot-Masei – Numbers 30:2- 36:13
- August 1, 2024
Efrat, Israel: “This is the thing [or word] which G_d has commanded.” (Numbers 30:2) How […]
Sandwiched: Reflections on midlife through a Jewish lens
- August 1, 2024
About twenty years ago, I started my first personal blog with grand aspirations to write […]
From the Pages: August 1, 2024
- August 1, 2024
In the Beginning: 1854 Each week The American Israelite will print an item from the […]
Jews in the News: A Funny Crime Flick; Elizabeth Taylor Speaks Candidly, 59 years later; Newhart and the Jews
- August 1, 2024
By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist “The Instigators” opens in a few theaters on Aug. 2 […]
Bad Joke of the Week: Looking Back
- August 1, 2024
The Hebrew school teacher was explaining how Lot’s wife looked back and turned into a […]
Today in Israeli History: August 2 – August 8
- August 1, 2024
Aug. 2, 1968 — Oil Flows From Eilat to Haifa Oil reaches Haifa on the […]






