Human Interest
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What do you do when you don't know how to move forward? When you’re stuck between a place that no longer works for you and a vast sea of uncertain possibilities? When the Jewish people left Egypt, they soon faced a terrifying sea that seemed impossible to cross. No one knew what to do until […]
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In the course of retelling the Passover story, the Haggadah quotes the passage from the first chapter of Exodus in which Pharaoh justified the unspeakable repression he intended to inflict on the Hebrews. “Come, let us deal wisely with them,” he exhorted his nation. “Otherwise they may become so numerous that if there is a […]
Jenny Weisberg grew up in an assimilated, upper-middle-class Jewish home in Baltimore. She was totally disinterested in Israel, the Jewish state. For her, New Jersey was a Jewish state. She attended afternoon Hebrew school until the age of ten, one day a week learning Hebrew and one day a week learning “Jewish culture.” In her […]
Five centuries ago, the Jews of Spain were faced with an unimaginable choice: convert to Christianity or leave the country. When King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella united Spain under Catholic control, they celebrated by decreeing that Spain should be an entirely Christian country. As of August 11, 1492, no Jew could remain in the country. […]
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An anti-Israel channel claimed Israel is digging under the Al-Aqsa mosque, threatening its foundations — and that archaeologists have found nothing to prove Jews ever lived here. We took a tour to find out for ourselves.
