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“Jewish summer camp is an incomparable experience,” said Jewish Federation of Greater Washington CEO Gil Preuss.
While the population at this exclusive venue jumps to 200,000 in the summer, it’s also home to a small but growing year-round population of about 17,000. Like the lighthouses that dot the island’s coasts, Chabad will be there for the long, bustling summer days and the equally long, star-studded winter nights.
Police said the dining hall was empty when the fire began. The fire is under control as firefighters were working to put out the fire.
“My writing gives me great satisfaction,” said the author, who passed away on June 14. “I have a push to tell the story. Life continues to give me ideas, and in this land, there is no shortage of subjects [to write about].”
Andrea Silagi was a teacher who worked in Jewish and secular settings.
Donations came from as many as 12,700 individuals from the United States, Israel, Belgium, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
“Occasionally, I’ll meet editors there or famous illustrators, in which I case I get their autographs. It’s a big, exciting event,” says Shirley Waisman, a book illustrator and a coordinator of the Israel chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
The Rabbinical Committee of the Traditional Charedi Chinuch said in a press release that the bill “seeks to interfere” the religious life “by assimilating them into the lifestyle of the majority.”
Long before Shavuot became a celebration of receiving the Torah, it was known as the Feast of Weeks and designated a harvest holiday.
The items featured include fragments from a 1,000-year-old Yemenite Torah scroll found in a bookbinding, as well as one of the world’s smallest legible Torah scrolls, measuring just 6 centimeters (2⅓ inches) in height.
Shavuot wasn’t always a dairy-heavy all-nighter.
Israelis eat cheesecake, have water fights, show off their agriculture and study all night on this most wonderful and easygoing of holidays.
