Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
Yad Vashem Online Exhibit Emphasizes the Power of Family
JNS.org - The world will mark Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Memorial Day—on April 7-8 with particular attention on the 80th anniversary of a campaign against the Jews...
Black and Jewish: Braving the Pitfalls, Jews of Color Find Peace
JNS.org - It’s one of the few rap videos around that features a lead singer in frockcoat, tallis, and shtreimel -- paired with a cascade...
Lighting Up the World With Hope During Hanukkah
JNS.org - Just saying the word “Hanukkah” brings smiles, as does conjuring up the sight of candles ablaze and hearing the sounds of boisterously off-key...
Knowledge Is Power Against Hate: Online Course Designed to Set Holocaust Record Straight
JNS.org - Anyone who still believes that ignorance is bliss hasn’t seen how easily it can be turned into hate. November 9 will mark 78 years...
Bonds Building Bonds — Honoring Generations of Sound Investment
JNS.org - If anyone in your family celebrated a bar or bat mitzvah, a wedding, or the birth of a baby after September 3, 1950,...
Shofar: A Love Song
JNS.org - As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he...
‘And Your God Will Be My God’: For One Jewish Convert, the Wait Is Over
JNS.org - “I’m so thrilled to be a part of B’nai Israel and to have finally found my place with the Jewish people, after nearly...
Mourning in 2020: Tisha B’Av Spotlights Losses Old and New
JNS.org - This year, Jews the world over got into the Tisha B’Av mood several months earlier than usual. During a typical summer, Jewish families and...
Masked Mitzvot: Welcoming New Life Amid COVID-19
JNS.org - “In this time of great darkness, the souls who come down now must be sources of great light.” -- Rabbi Doniel Katz, whose...
In an Era of Global Uncertainty, Record Numbers of Jews Seek Out Israel
JNS.org - In a time of darkness, pandemic, pandemonium, and power struggles, a thin ray of light can be seen in the Jewish world and...
‘Your People Will Be My People’: A Shavuot Shout-Out to Ruth’s ‘Daughters’
JNS.org - “You shall love the convert, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” -- Deuteronomy 10:19 There was a moment some 2,500...
In a Time of Need, Jewish Teens Give Back
JNS.org - Tutor a kid in math. Paint a community center. Distribute challahs to the homebound. Raise money for trees in Israel. Upgrade your school’s...
The Challenges, and Beauty, of This Year’s Passover
JNS.org - In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a complete lockdown for Passover seder night, threatening arrest or a fine to anyone found on...
A Parents’ Guide to This Year’s Nuclear Family Seder
JNS.org - “Even if all of us were wise, all of us understanding, all of us knowing the Torah, we would still be obligated to...
