More than fifty years ago, famed Israeli singer Arik Einstein sang, “Summer is coming, and it’s hot again.” However, not only is it hot again with the recent arrival of the summer solstice, but the summer weather is noticeably hotter. In Israel, the climate crisis has already led to an increase in the daily maximum…
In his book “The Interpretation of Dreams,” Sigmund Freud recounts a conversation he had with his father Jakob, when he was 10 or 12 years old. Jakob said to his son: “While I was a young man, I was walking one Saturday on a street in the village where you were born; I was handsomely…
Recently I met with the president of one of the largest public universities in California. As the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Jewish Free Loan Association (JFLA), my purpose was to explain our student loan program, which offers zero-interest, zero-fee loans for college students regardless of religion, race or ethnicity. His first reaction was…
Boaz Hepner works as a Registered Nurse in Saint John’s Health Center, and teaches COVID vaccine education throughout the hospital, and to the community at large. He grew up in LA in Pico/Robertson and lives here with his wife and daughter. He helped clean up the area by adding the dozens of trash cans that…
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My love affair with French culture started young. The seeds were planted in 1950s New York by my first French teacher Madame Allouette. A wren of a woman, she showed up for work each day dressed in a tailored gray suit, white blouse, sensible shoes, and toting a black briefcase brimming with meaningless dialogs and…
Growing up in California, I can say with some expertise that heavy rain is pretty infrequent. And when that rain arrives, the “storm” usually shows up in the fall or winter months. But a summer shower is something I rarely see. Early one morning, the summer skies opened for just a few minutes and released…
A change in perspective can shift the focus of our day – and even our lives. We have an opportunity to harness “a moment in time,” allowing our souls to be both grounded and lifted. This blog shows how the simplest of daily experiences can become the most meaningful of life’s blessings. All it takes…
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Arkansas’s anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) in a June 22 ruling. The case originated from 2018, when one of the advertisers for The Arkansas Times––the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College––ceased ties with the Times after the paper refused to sign a pledge to not boycott Israel as part of…
Your children shall wander in the desert for forty years-Numbers 14:33 Forty years…oof…This number has been haunting Jewssince the incident with the rainbow. Forty days of rain…Forty days Moses spenton top of the mountain. The number of days it took Davidto step up and defeat Goliath.Forty gallons in a mikveh. Forty years a person must…
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