Galilee Diary: Accidental Hero
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: What might have been...
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Shopping
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Fringes
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Where Are We on Christmas Day?
Temple Beth El, Madison WI
Originally posted on Rabbi Jonathan's Rabbinical Blog
"Where are you on Christmas Day?"
Gay Pride in Israel: Tel Aviv Hosts Global LGBT Leadership Conference
Seated around one half of a large table in a meeting room were members of the Knesset and their representatives from every political party except for the ultra-Orthodox. Filling out the table were a dozen transgender teenagers and their adult leaders.
Israelis Are Among the Happiest People in the World... No Joke!
Here's something that you probably don’t know about Israel: Israelis are very happy. In fact, they are among the happiest people in the world – far happier than Americans, and a bit happier than Canadians.
100 Years After WWI, Its Effect on Reform Judaism is Still Felt
By August 1915, World War I was raging in the most densely Jewish areas of Polish and Lithuanian Russia on the dreaded Eastern Front. On the Western Front, the fields of Belgium's Flanders region were soaked with Allied and Central Powers blood.