Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
Dairy, First Fruits, and More: Welcoming Shavuot With Customs of the Season
JNS.org - I’ve often heard, and many rabbis lament, that Shavuot is the only major Jewish holiday that many Diaspora Jews have never heard of, let...
Feeding Body and Soul: Terror Victims Get Servings of Food (and Hope)
JNS.org - Try spending $60,000 for chicken, $31,000 for wine, $15,800 for eggs, and a mere $5,500 for apples. And that’s before you factor in dessert. Of course, if...
Seventy Years of Sacrifice: A Global Salute to Israel’s Fallen Soldiers
JNS.org - If you’ve ever been in Israel for Yom Hazikaron -- the Memorial Day for those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the Jewish homeland --chances are you will...
From Generation to Generation, Jews Celebrate the Gift of Freedom at Passover
JNS.org - Passover is called the holiday of freedom for good reason. Every year for the last 3,000 or so years, Jews manage to celebrate our...
Eight Questions for Passover
JNS.org - Why is this year going to be different from all other years? Because this year, you can stump your guests with the meaning behind...
A ‘Wonder Woman’ Purim as Israel Gets Ready to Party
JNS.org - Queen Esther and Uncle Mordechai, King Ahasuerus and that rogue Haman. All of them (and even poor old deposed Queen Vashti) would be flummoxed...
Petri Dish for a Diverse Hi-Tech Israeli Future: Jerusalem’s Hadassah Academic College
JNS.org - Twenty-year-old Balqis Amireh would never have had the chance to study biotechnology if it weren’t for Hadassah Academic College (HAC). And 21-year-old Audelia Sebag...
When Immigrating to Israel Is a Senior Moment
JNS.org - For some retirees, it can come down to choosing to spend their golden years overlooking the Mediterranean instead of a golf course in Boca Raton....
When the IDF Lone Soldier Experience Becomes a Family Affair
JNS.org - Unlike the 18-year-old Israeli in the next bunk, nobody is drafting or forcing the enlistment of the IDF’s American, French, British, Canadian, Swiss, South...
Reform Jews Support Israel at Convention, but Some Question Timing of Jerusalem Move
Jacobs was addressing the record-breaking 6,000 Reform Jews gathered in Boston for the Union for Reform Judaism’s (URJ) 74th North American Biennial General Assembly. But it...
Chabad’s Massive Growth Is Pragmatic, Yet ‘Defies Logic’
JNS.org - How do you go about feeding a crowd of 5,600 hungry rabbis and other guests, many of whom have just traveled across the globe? If...
School Exchange Program Fosters Israel-Diaspora Bonds
JNS.org - When two little girls got the chance to read a book together -- across a gap of more than 6,000 miles -- it represented just the...
Exhibit Tells a Holocaust Story of ‘Resistance Through Photography’
JNS.org - In the photograph, Susan Salzberg was the first to spot her late father-in-law’s face -- a face with a striking resemblance to that of her 22-year-old...
Jewish Seniors Learn That ‘Love Can Happen at Any Age’
JNS.org - After her husband Jerry died, Harriet Vogel started writing letters to him. “I began doing [so] because it was therapeutic and comforting,” says Harriet, a grief...
