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With all the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of “Fiddler on the Roof” on Broadway, the musical’s final scene of the shtetl-dwelling Jews being forced off their land lingers in our minds. But to visual artist and playwright Tom Block, it is not just Jews, but Arabs as well, who have suffered displacement from a […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:10 p.m. Torah: Numbers 13:1-15:41             Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24 Havdalah: 9:19 p.m. “And the Lord spoke to Moses saying ‘Send forth for yourself men to explore the land of Canaan…’” [Numbers 13:1-2]. The great sin of humanity was Adam’s disregard of God’s command not to eat the fruit of the Tree of […]

Many weeks during the year, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein finds himself in rural, impoverished areas of the former Soviet Union, delivering food packages and good cheer to aging members of the Jewish community. Last week Rabbi Eckstein found himself in Israel, being honored for his work. The rabbi, a native of the U.S. and a dual […]

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