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by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, the Lord your God will maintain faithfully for you the covenant He made on oath with your fathers...The Lord will ward

Yesterday, Amanda Simpson, a Raytheon employee, former test pilot and once a Congressional candidate, became the first ever Presidential appointee who is transgender.

We all operate on calendars and timetables, and Washington is no different.

Alex Cicelsky is a founder of Kibbutz Lotan in Israel. Learn more at KibbutzLotan.com.

The recent President's Conference in Jerusalem opened with a video that showcased innovative research and development in the Negev and highlighted Reform Kibbutz Lotan's

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die...
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

Last Thursday, after a long struggle with

For some children, finding out that the tooth fairy isn't real is the final straw. Despite our preteen protests and, yes, probably even tears, my parents' decision to tell me and my sister the "real story" of Hanukkah at a young age was one of the most

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

Thus said the Lord: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say is ruined, without man or beast - in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate

8 Blogs for 8 Nights of Hanukkah Blog #1: Oil and the Secret of the Jew

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)

I have indeed removed them far among nations and have scattered them among thecountries and I have become to them a diminished sanctity [or small sanctuary]in the countries