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Why Wasn't Our Family Store Looted on Kristallnacht ?
Why Wasn’t Our Family Store Looted on Kristallnacht? This picture shows Nazi soldiers standing in front of the store our family owned and...
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rabbijonathanf
- Oct 25, 2019
- 4 min
The Miracle of Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv: A Postcript
Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv is a remarkable experience. You would think that I would say ‘Yom Kippur in Jerusalem is a remarkable experience’,...
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rabbijonathanf
- Oct 8, 2019
- 6 min
Yom Kippur: Making This Year Count
Y Yom Kippur -Making This Year Count (This was my talk on Yom Kippur) On Rosh Hashanah our 12 year old daughter sat in on the Natanah...
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rabbijonathanf
- Oct 2, 2019
- 2 min
A New Me For The New Year
When we think of a New Year celebration, what comes to mind are parties, champagne, and a midnight toast to the coming year. The Jewish...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 4 min
A Time to Laugh and a Time To Weep: Meaningful Melancholy on the 9th of Av
There is a time to laugh and a time to weep. Most people think this simple yet insightful truism comes from a song written by Pete Seeger...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 6 min
Our Aliyahversary, One Year In by Shifra Feldman
Today, August 1st our family is celebrating our one-year Aliyah anniversary. I get chills up and down my arms just writing that...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 10 min
The Jewish State Law:
In 1894 a young journalist named Theodore Herzl attended the Dreyfus Trial in Paris where a Jewish officer was accused of treason. The...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
Shavuot: The Holiday of the Book for the People of the Book
Shavuot could be considered the holiday of the book. Unlike Rosh Hashanah which has the shofar, Chanukah which has the menorah and...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 7 min
Jerusalem Day: The Fulfillment of Jewish Destiny
On June 7 1967 at 4:00 am Knesset member Menachem Begin, who had just joined the cabinet of the government of Israel, called the Prime...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
Mel Gibson's Chutzpah
It’s bad enough to make a film about a dysfunctional family that alludes to a wealthy Jewish family. But casting Mel Gibson as the...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 2 min
Israel Memorial Day, A Day of Meaning and Purpose
Today is Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers in Israel. Families, friends, people who want to show they care all came to...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
Yom Hashoa: True Strength of the Spirit
It is an honor to be commemorating Yom Hazikaron L’shoa ugvurah, the day of remembrance for the Holocaust and Heroismin Israel. The day...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 6 min
When Someone Else’s Icon is the Symbol of Your People’s Persecution
My first time visiting Notre Dame de Paris was when I was 11 years old. I grew up going to a French school, and visited Paris regularly...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
Eat Matzah, Don't Kvetch
The story goes back to the work camps during the WWII. Every morning in the camp a group of Jewish workers got up extra early before dawn...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 4 min
A Deeper Understanding of Anti-Semitism -Purim blog I
There are some people who by nature alarmists. Those folks are the types who I would hear say, speaking about anti-semitism in the United...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
A World Apart -Parsha Blog
People do not know what to make of ultra-orthodox Jews, yet they are often fascinated by them as well. They are one of us, a member of...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
Running Together in Tel Aviv Marathon
Last Friday I had the thrilling experience of running in the Tel Aviv marathon. Let me qualify that, I ran in the 10 K race as part of...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
Exercising Good Judgement -Parsha Video Blog
Shortly after the founding of the State of Israel, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence,...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
The Foundation of Freedom & The Rock of Israel -Parsha Blog
Within the first two sentences of the US Declaration of Independence, G-d is mentioned twice. It speaks of ‘the station to which Nature’s...
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rabbijonathanf
- Aug 24, 2019
- 3 min
Tu B'Shvat, a Holiday of Renewal
Tu B’shvat for me as a kid meant giving money to plant a tree in Israel, and eating fruits indigenous to Israel. We would then get a...
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