On Sunday afternoon, June 6, a pro-Israel rally was held at Smith Field in Parsippany, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest (Federation) in partnership with various local synagogues and Amir Hadar.
Ayelet Raymond
Ayelet Raymond is a film and musical director who lives in New York City. She collaborated with young Broadway performers to create the American children’s television show My Hebrew Land. She is the creative force behind the Kosher Barbie character and social media personality.
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Rabbi Sacks, zt’’l, had prepared a full year of ‘Covenant & Conversation’ for 5781, based on his book ‘Lessons in Leadership.’ It was perhaps the single greatest collective failure of leadership in the Torah.
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Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
When then-President Bill Clinton signed The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) the week before Thanksgiving in 1993, it marked a remarkable bipartisan effort between Utah Republican Orrin Hatch and Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy.
The months of work, scholarship and political weight of the two senators propelled one of the most significant acts of religious liberty legislation of the past 25 years to a 97-3 Senate win, followed by a unanimous voice vote in the House.
For that work and more than four decades of Senate service dedicated to the cause of religious liberty, The Becket Fund Thursday presented the former senator with its highest honor, the Canterbury Medal.
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Over the last two weeks, young American Jews have awakened to the realities of antisemitism in the United States. We are in the midst of a well-documented spike in the frequency and severity of antisemitic incidents across the country, exacerbated by some Americans’ response to the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas. Huge numbers of young Jews, spanning from Gen Z to millennials and Jewish influencers, many of whom previously shied away from commenting on antisemitism, are taking to social media to call out this alarming rise. The response culminated in a viral campaign last week, modeled after last summer’s #blackouttuesday, in which users posted blue squares on social med