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Elana Loeffler, 23 @eloeff, @TWEETatAMIT Like many high school seniors in her world, Elana Loeffler spent a year in Israel after graduation. Unlike others, she wanted to serve. Most Israel programs included a service component of, at most, a day a week, and sometimes, as little as a day a month. “I wanted more,” she […]

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Shea Rubenstein, 35 Twitter: @SheaRubenstein, @JCCMarinePark www.projectmachal.org www.SheaRubenstein.com As the Jewish population in Marine Park, Brooklyn, continues to soar, so does the responsibility to look out for the needy in the community. So when Shea Rubenstein founded the Jewish Community Council of Marine Park, one of the key projects was Project Mazon, which subsidizes groceries […]

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When it comes to addressing the Israeli/Palestinian relationship, it is time for the American Jewish community to take Hillel’s injunction, a pragmatic progenitor of The Golden Rule, more seriously. By challenging ourselves to examine our words and actions from the perspective of “the Other” we might be better equipped to act with the compassion God demands […]

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