Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
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...
New Immigrants to Israel Jump Right In… to a Coronavirus Quarantine
JNS.org - The first few weeks after making aliyah are typically a flurry of activity, with the newly minted Israeli dashing from government offices to...
New York Times’ Beinart Defends Himself on Hypocrisy Charge
Report: Israel ‘Very Pleased’ With US Strikes on Iranian Targets in Syria, Was Informed in Advance
Israeli-Owned Ship Hit by Explosion in Gulf of Oman
McGill University Jewish Groups Decry ‘Misleading’ BDS Motion Tying Israel to Uighur Persecution
Man Arrested for Shouting Antisemitic Abuse at Soldier Guarding French Synagogue