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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt is the columns editor and editor of the JNS Wire.

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, has suggested that Jews take on an extra mitzvah in the merit of the hostages.
“Everyone wants to do something,” says the head of a Jewish day school in San Diego, which has partnered with an Israeli school near the border with Gaza that was attacked.
FBI director Christopher Wray told Jewish communal leaders that his agency is “working to confirm if there is any validity to the call.”
On one message board, Orthodox women recommended stretching limited budgets by using cheaper cuts of meat to make pulled beef, and or using fewer and smaller pieces of chicken in dishes with rice.
Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters and new CUNY employee Marc Lamont Hill are among the slated participants at an upcoming “Palestine Writes” literary festival on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
“We have big freezers and have been working since after Passover to prepare the items,” said Yehoshua Vishedski at Vaad HaKashrut of Ukraine.
The fatal disease is 10 times more prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews as the general American public.
“We don’t know everyone’s immediate and long-term needs until they come to us, but the more resources the organizations have, the better we can serve,” said Ellyn Mortimer, who lead a Jewish organization on the island.
The Alliance Heritage Center at Stockton University preserves and interprets the story of the farming community, which began in the 1880s.