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Mezuzah. Credit: BRBurton23/Pixabay.
Patricia Heaton urges non-Jews to support Israel by putting up mezuzahs
The suggestion by the actress to show solidarity for a U.S. ally has drawn both smiles and frowns, and certainly, curiosity.
Sept. 25, 2024
Rabbi Meir Peretz with the mezuzah scroll. Credit: Courtesy.
Scribe writes largest mezuzah for private home in Israel
"Writing the mezuzah took at least 6-7 hours," said Rabbi Meir Peretz.
May 29, 2024
An image of the crescent moon in the night sky. Source: Efasein/Shutterstock
Waxing and waning
Time, too, needs to be sanctified.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
April 3, 2024
The comedian Eli Lebowicz (left) helped fellow participants at the "March for Israel" wrap tefillin on Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: EliComedy.com.
Jewish great awakening follows Oct. 7 terror attacks
“In a world that’s so much darker, with so much evil, we have to do more good to outweigh it,” said comedian Eli Lebowicz, who thinks 30 to 40 people are donning tefillin regularly upon his suggestion.
Melissa Langsam Braunstein
Nov. 29, 2023
Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza. Credit: IDF.
Israeli troops hold mezuzah-hanging ceremony in Gaza City
"I wish the entire Brigade to continue in our special work, in the great mission. God willing, we will succeed."
Nov. 20, 2023
Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky (right) wraps tefillin on a man as he awaits  a group picture in front of Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn on Nov. 4, 2018. Credit: Mendel Grossbaum/Chabad.org.
‘Global shortage of tefillin, mezuzahs,’ amid ‘Jewish awakening of the soul,’ Chabad says
"We’re seeing an immense amount of people wanting to connect, wanting to double down and leaning into their Jewish identity and practice," Rabbi Motti Seligson, a spokesman for Chabad, told JNS.
Menachem Wecker
Nov. 8, 2023
Pork vandalism at the University of Denver, Feb. 2023. Source: StandWithUS.
Antisemitic attacks target three University of Denver students
Jewish ritual objects were desecrated, and pork was affixed to a student’s door.
Feb. 15, 2023
A mezuzah. Credit: Jana Kollarova/Shutterstock.
A Jew should be a Jew, both inside and outside
Moses and Korach battled over the question of why the mezuzah is as important as a library of holy books.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
June 30, 2022
Landmark campus clock and logo on the campus of the University of Indiana. Credit: Ken Wolter/Shutterstock.
Indiana University Hillel distributes free mezuzah cases to students, faculty
Hundreds have been put on doorposts all over school’s Bloomington campus • Sticker on them says, “I stand with my Jewish friends.”
March 8, 2022