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Today, Israel’s 65th Independence Day, it is appropriate that we stop and take pride in the many strengths of this young nation, and what its existence and growth has meant for Jewish people not only in Israel but around the world. 2013 offers much for LGBT people to take pride in compared with 1948. Today […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:21 p.m. Torah: Leviticus 16:1-20:27 Haftarah: Amos 9:7-15 (Ashkenaz); Ezekiel 20:2-20 (Sephard) Havdalah: 8:23 p.m. This week’s double portion of Achrei Mot/Kedoshim begins with God speaking to Moshe after the death of Aaron’s two sons, and then instructing Moshe and Aaron about the procedures surrounding Yom Kippur. This section (which we […]

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Last week, during the Shoah (Holocaust) memorial service in Poland, Major General Benny Ganz, Chief of the General Staff of the IDF, proclaimed that “we have never been stronger”. The Jewish People is in a position of unprecedented prosperity and security. However, paradoxically, our vulnerability is also at a historic high. One of the great […]

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