by Elyshia Johnson | May 18, 2020 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
By: Meira Weber May 19th, 2020 I grew up watching an educational American television show called Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. The show was centered around a sweet man named Fred Rogers, who was called just Mr. Rogers on the show, and he would sing and teach and impart...
by Elyshia Johnson | Apr 20, 2020 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
By: Meira Weber April 21, 2020 Growing up in the USA, every year in school, as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day neared, the school would hold an assembly. All the grades would attend this assembly, which was held in the gymnasium or another large...
by Kim Troup | Mar 4, 2020 | Reflections from Israel, Word to the Nations
March 10, 2020 By Meira Weber When I was very little, my father took me outside on the eve of the first day of Adar, the Hebrew month in which we celebrate the holiday of Purim. Evening was a deep blue bowl studded with glittering stars. We stood there on the driveway...
by Elyshia Johnson | Mar 5, 2019 | News from the Land, Newsletters
The Vatican announced today that they will be opening their secret archive regarding the Holocaust era. This comes on the heels of long-standing criticism by the Jewish community worldwide against Pope Pius XII for his complicity in the Holocaust — for failing to do...
by Elyshia Johnson | May 17, 2018 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
By Tessy Agassi This week we celebrated Shavuot, my personal favorite holiday of the Jewish year. While the Bible references this holiday as the Festival of First Fruits, on this holiday we also commemorate receiving the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. In fact, since...
