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Galilee Diary: Health care
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Torah for the masses
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Galilee Diary: Values collide
We hold that the State of Israel was not permitted, by law, to allocate State land to the Jewish Agency for the purpose of establishing the communal settlement of Katzir on the basis of discrimination between Jews and non-Jews.
-Israel Supreme Court decision, March 8, 2000
Galilee Diary: Rainy day
Moving from the Midwest to the Mideast involved looking at rainy days in a new way. It took me a number of years to internalize the concept that rainy days are not an inconvenience, but rather a blessing.
Fulfilling Our Responsibility as Inhabitants of the World
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented yesterday to staff in Senator Charles Schumer's office by Jacob Pargament, Matthew Bernstein, Daniel Pollack, and Benjamin Saltzman.
Striving for Equality
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented on Monday to staff in Representative Gary Ackerman's office by Zoe Kline, Emily Singer, Jamie Kula, and Allison Kobrick.
Machon Kaplan: Fueling my "Jewish Soul"
Imagine this: You're the only Jewish student at your suburban Ohio high school of 2,000. The synagogue your family attends holds Shabbat services only twice a month, because there aren't enough Jews in the area to generate weekly interest.
Jewish Leaders React to State of the Union
Following President Obama's first State of the Union address on Wednesday night, JSpot.org asked leaders throughout the Jewish community for their thoughts and insights on the President's words.
For Haiti: NFTY-MV's Campaign on the Plane
Sarah Korn and Ana Dodson of the North American Federation of Temple Youth's Missouri Valley Region (NFTY-MV) tell their story of raising more than $300 on a plane on the way to a NFTY event.
NFTY's Haiti Relief Efforts
Aliza Slavin Gazek is the 2009-2010 President of the North Amer