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On Monday afternoon in Jerusalem, my phone rings. It’s my son Juan calling from Colombia, just as he often does before leaving for work. I answer, expecting an ordinary conversation. Instead, I hear panic. “There’s been a terrible earthquake,” he says. “Everything shook for a long time.” With cellphone lines barely functioning, his voice breaks […]
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“The Jews started it all – and by "it" I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and gentile, believer and atheist, tick. Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings. And […]
For most Jews today, Aramaic is a language locked behind the gates of ancient Judaism. It's the dense, scholarly text of the Talmud, the mystical language of the Zohar, the legal phrasing of the Ketubah (marriage contract), the solemn declaration of Kol Nidre, and the comforting cadences of the Kaddish. It serves as a linguistic […]
Sarah Mintz, aka Maritza Rodríguez Gómez, is a Colombian actress and household name amongst Spanish-speakers in the US and Latin America. The former Catholic converted to Judaism and today lives in Israel as an Orthodox Jew with her husband and twin boys. For over two decades she led a successful career as a television host, […]
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