Jeff Benson

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Feb 3, 2022, 8:25 PM

My bubbes would say ‘Oy Gevalt!’ to democratic socialism.

My thoughts after reading a fellow blogger's post. I called Josh Gottheimer a Jew – it wasn't a slur | Russell Miller | The Blogs (timesofisrael.com) So Dr. Miller thinks that "as a Jew," one has to support economic, social and...

Feb 13, 2020, 5:41 PM

Remembering Daniel Pearl

This Friday, I will be at a minyan for morning prayers. It will be the 19th of Shevat – 18 years since the journalist and musician Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan by Islamic terrorists because he was a...

Sep 16, 2019, 7:40 AM

Chanting the Torah

Eight years ago, on the 19th of the Hebrew month of Elul, God called my mother, Ruth Schochet Benson, to leave this physical world. On Thursday, I will pray with a minyan and recite the kaddish for her. I will also...

Nov 1, 2018, 7:19 AM

Thank you Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life synagogue

Dear Rabbi Myers, Please accept my condolences on the terrible murders of your congregants and fellow Jews this past Shabbat. I want to express my deep admiration and appreciation of your gracious welcome to President Donald Trump, his family and aides...

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Jeff Benson lives in the United States and is a software developer. He is a proud Zionist American Jew and is overly fond of Israeli wine.

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