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From the blog of Yitzchak Blau at The Times of Israel

Yossi Ron, the last remnant of his family, embodies the Jewish story of exile, destruction and rebirth. Ron is one of the 47 orphans from Kfar Etzion, a town in the hills of Judea that was destroyed by the Arabs in Israel’s War of Independence, its defenders massacred by the marauding Arabs.

“We provide all 31 Warm Corners with a budget for supplies, and our volunteers purchase food, drinks, to fill up the fridges inside the Warm Corners so it’s a win-win.”

At “Warm Corners” canteens operated throughout the country by Yashar LaChayal (“Direct to the Soldier”) volunteers provide IDF soldiers the opportunity to grab a cold drink or take a load off.

I was already familiar with Karen Guth’s previous book, "Bubie’s in Bidud (Grandma’s in Isolation)," her book that came out in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Her life as a grandmother to Yiddish-speaking haredi kids prompted her to release two children’s books and maintain a blog for children’s stories that are acceptable to parents from all backgrounds.

Signage is seen during the Jewish National Fund Los Angeles Tree Of Life Dinner at Loews Hollywood Hotel on October 29, 2017, in Hollywood, California [Michael Kovac/Getty Images] In the name of “charity”, the Jewish National Fund of Israel is buying up Palestinian land in the West Bank for colonial settlements and calling it “environmentalism”; far-right Hindutva nationalist organisations are propagating their fascist-inspired ideology across the world and calling it “decolonisation�...