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This month, New York’s loss was New Jerseys gain. For the first time ever, on Sunday June 6, Bergen County... This legacy of charity and responsibility is fundamental to the character of Jewish life. Families, communities and societies thrive on the prioritization of care and responsibility between members of the group. There is a valued intimacy and a critical bond of trust that results from our support systems, how we take care of those closest to us and put family first, loving our neighbo...

From the blog of Robin Diamond at The Times of Israel

The people of this country are blessed. The unprecedented speed of development and deployment of the vaccine for COVID-19 has brought us to a place where with G-d’s continued help and blessing we can hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us. But the worst seems to lie squarely ahead of India, and we must do something about it. We have all seen the images and figures depicting the havoc the pandemic is currently wreaking in India. As Jews, we cannot just watch this disaster unfold. Abr...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, No matter how far away from home we go in life, either because we were running away or were lured elsewhere by our imaginings and the world’s trappings, something always drives us home. A fami...

From the blog of Avrohom Leventhal at The Times of Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press At Har Sinai, Almighty G-d revealed Himself to the entire Jewish nation and gave them the Torah. The first words He said were, “ Anochi Hashem Elokecha – I am Hashem your G-d.” The Midrash tells us that the word “ Anochi” is an Egyptian word. How are we to understand this Midrash? Advertisement The mitzvos are included within them. In fact, the Aseres Hadibros contain 620 letters, as the Shelah points out, symbolizing the 613 mitzvos of th...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The contrast between the two parshiyot is startling… Last week’s parsha, Yitro, records the scene of Matan Torah- perhaps the most powerfully inspiring spiritual moment in Jewish history- th...

From the blog of Kenneth Cohen at The Times of Israel

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Jacob lies on his death bed and Joseph brings him his two sons to bless. Joseph lines them up in order of age: Menashe, the oldest, on Jacob’s right, and Ephraim, the youngest, on Jacob’s le...