Welcoming October 8th Jews Home: A Symposium, Part 2
So what is the unchanging definition of success in Jewish outreach?
A New Normal?
Pro-Palestinian agitators have found a new venue for their hate-filled protests—our shuls.
Ahavat Yisrael: A Grave Matter
While hiking in the fall of 2008, a member of Temple Beth Jacob, a Reform synagogue in Newburgh, New York, discovered several headstones with Hebrew inscriptions on a steep, thickly wooded hillside. It turned out that the Jewish cemetery, in desperate need of repair, belonged to the Temple. The Temple’s youth group did an […]
Who is Buried in the Vilna Gaon’s Tomb?
The commemoration of the 200th yahrzeit of the Vilna Gaon (19 Tishrei, 1797-1997) last year saw the transformation of the Gaon from unrivaled Torah scholar and pietist to Lithuanian national hero. Amid much fanfare, the commemorative activities ranged from the issuing of a Lithuanian first-day cover with the Gaon’s portrait to the erection of a […]