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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.
Faith leaders heard from officials from the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security and other experts on growing threats and what can be done to counter them.
“Parents should be asking their children’s camp how they are addressing safety and security. What are the policies and procedures they have put in place? What physical security do they have at the camp? How are they training their staff? The counselors? The campers?” said security expert Michael Masters, national director and CEO of the Secure Community Network.
The inaugural Orthodox Union Women’s Initiative Leadership Summit in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., drew 100 women together to talk about volunteer recruitment, forming nonprofit boards, dealing with donors, team-building and more.
“The medical consensus, which halachah [Jewish law] demands that we follow, unambiguously supports the safety and efficacy of vaccines as a first-line defense against measles,” Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, the religious leader at Boca Raton Synagogue in Florida.
What’s new in kosher-for-Passover baked goods, butters, wearables, kids’ toys and more to relish over the course of eight days.
Looming on the horizon is spring break, which varies in school districts all over America, with some that fall later in April timed to Passover and some that start this month.
The organization that has helped facilitate 15,600 matches and more than 3,550 transplants is preparing for another chapter as it relocates to a new building a mile from its current offices.
Jewish individuals and organizations donate time, goods, cars and money to people who lost everything.