When my children were young, they attended preschool at our local Jewish Community Center. While there, with the exception of Nowruz (Persian New Year), they had no in-school experience with any ...
With the commercialization of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day, we often lose sight of their true meaning and Jewish origins. Christmas celebrates the birth of a Jewish boy and shorn of the ...
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The silence is not only external. Within Jewish communities in France and Europe, fragmentation and dispute deepen the paralysis. The catastrophe of October 7 and its aftermath did not lead to unity ...
This obsession with word “pagan” is not native to India. It comes from Europe and America. In the 1960s and 70s, hippies who ...
Jesus Christ’s resurrection isn’t just central to the Christian liturgical calendar. “It’s the central mystery of our faith,” Bob Feeny, pastor at Westminster United Church, said. “That Jesus Christ ...