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Justine Johnston Hemmestad

May 7, 2025, 11:42 AM

Jerusalem Burning

Rural Iowa knows a thing or two about wildfires unfortunately, usually controlled burns that have gotten out of hand with the help of high winds. Though supporting a different climate than Iowa, Israel too has had its share of recent...

Yoseph Janowski

May 6, 2025, 5:13 PM

Who you gonna call

When something’s strange in the world. When people behave off the wall. When massacres are considered virtuous. When woke means going to sleep. When masses ridicule those who want to live life in accordance with traditional values. When humans become animal-like, lost in the...

Shayndel Plotkin

May 1, 2025, 8:01 PM

Far from home … 77th birthday for the Land we call Home Celebrating the heroic gift of our Soldiers and our Iron Dome Recognizing the struggles of turning darkness into Light Becoming one in coexistence of our Right and our Fight Shutting out...

Michel M.J. Shore

Apr 27, 2025, 4:34 PM

The Power of Words to Wound or to Heal

The Power of Words to Wound or to Heal Double Portion Parsha -Tazria and Metzora After childbirth, a woman needs renewal, Revival of strength and recovery To regain her equilibrium With understanding and sensitivity. Just as God rested after creation, So is a woman entitled to...

Apr 25, 2025, 7:20 AM

Two Clouds by Leann Shamash

Parshat Shemini continues onward with the drama of the first sacrifices. Just when we think that everything is all in place and will go flawlessly, Nadav and Avihu, the two sons of Aaron, offer a "alien fire" before God...

Apr 24, 2025, 6:40 AM

Dancing With Verses

David's Psalms inspire us to rise higher, singing Psalms together, sans a choir; we’re imitating David who once danced with an Ark by which he was entranced. Totally in favor of what he has told us is his very deep desire, I have to tell you now that...

Sandra Schachter

Apr 23, 2025, 11:29 PM

Yom Hashoah, But No One Is There

every year at this time I see you at every turn your arms wide pleading hoping but no one is there... I hear your cries they haunt me through the day and night and I weep with you but no one is there

Apr 23, 2025, 9:40 PM

Hope Smouldering in Jerusalem’s Inferno

“The Scent of Fighting is Still in the Air…”—Ishai Ribo & Natan Goshen, 2019 Across Jerusalem, the smell was unmistakable.Smoke curled through alleyways, settled on shoulders,hung low over stone. At first, I thought: bonfires.But no—Yom Ha’atzmaut is still a week away.The...

Apr 22, 2025, 7:29 AM

At the Edge of a Road With No Return

I woke up with the taste of dust in my mouth. It wasn’t hunger or thirst — just what remained after faith had dried out from waiting too long. Your name was still there, caught at the back of my throat. It...

Michel M.J. Shore

Apr 21, 2025, 4:25 PM

The Rule of Law Ensures Security for All

Torah Portion Shemini In memory of my maternal grandfather, Dr. Jakub Joshua Herzig - a human rights lawyer, who survived the Holocaust. He worked tirelessly for justice and the rule of law. He said, “Passover needs Shavuot because freedom without...

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