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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...
This is the second story in our Holy Ground series about congregations at crossroads. WHITE OAK, PENNSYLVANIA — Every Friday morning, Alan Iszauk returns to the building where he became a man. Sixty ...
ANSHE CHESED (Fairmount Temple), established as a German Orthodox congregation in 1841 and chartered on 28 Feb. 1842, is the oldest existing Jewish congregation in Cleveland. Its Hebrew name means ...
Very often, Rosh Hashana comes along and I find myself thinking: How did the month of Elul come and go so quickly – I feel that I did not utilize my time adequately to prepare myself to stand before ...
The CHESED SHEL EMETH CEMETERY ASSN. was established in 1903 to provide traditional Jewish burials for indigent Jews. During the height of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, many Cleveland Jews ...
Words matter to Jews. Language matters. Hebrew, filled with beauty and poetic power, is a language in which words carry not just superficial meaning, not just historical context, but also deep, sacred ...
Chesed: mercy, compassion, kindness, grace, steadfastness, faithfulness. The kabbalists associate Chesed with the soul’s desire to embrace all of Creation and bestow upon it goodness. An expansive ...
In Israel, 35% of the population volunteers. And a very large per cent of Israelis endanger their lives to protect the country and its citizens. Those citizens are returnining the chesed now as they ...