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Deborah Fineblum

Deborah Fineblum

Deborah Fineblum is a freelance writer and book author who made aliyah on July 4, 2013.

“We’ve heard about antisemitism around the world but thought there was nothing to worry about here,” says Australian Ronny Krite, who was on the scene on Dec. 14 in the midst of mayhem.
Within its first month, 85 households have kept Shabbat for the first time as part of the initiative, and more Shabbat first-timers are being matched with more soldiers each week.
When Nogah Safer started writing his first Torah scroll six years ago, he never imagined it would be completed by Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border and survivors of the Oct. 7 massacre.
“Maybe my work shows the war in a more personal way and it will bring all of us some healing.”
A New York psychologist who works with young people told JNS she is hearing of students going to Hillel and Chabad for the first time, to study there instead of at the library.
It’s been a year of polarization, even here in idyllic Pardes Hanna.
Long before Shavuot became a celebration of receiving the Torah, it was known as the Feast of Weeks and designated a harvest holiday.
Timed to coincide with Yom Hashoah—the day all of Israel stops to remember the Holocaust—“Before My Very Eyes,” the Yad Vashem Educational Center for Holocaust Remembrance, is opening at the Ariel Sharon Israel Defense Forces’ training campus in the Negev Desert.
“The Torah takes the rhetorical thunder of our oppressors and throws it back in their faces to tell God’s own truth,” says Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman.