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It's been one year since the tragedy in Mumbai. Consider lighting your Shabbat
candles tonight & bring light into the world. Look here for your local times.
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then both hands are waved towards the face, symbolically drawing in the light of the candles and the sanctity of the Sabbath.
Jewish Treats Action: Explore a community with which you are unfamiliar. (New Square and Tash are both renowned for their hospitality.)
Jewish Treats The word shtetl, invokes images of the pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe. But did you know some exist in North America?
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The word shtetl, invokes images of the pre-Holocaust Eastern European Jewish community. It might come as a surprise, therefore, that there actually are shtetlach in North America! Here are two:New Square, ...
Jewish Treats In today's #Twebrew video we learn how to read the letter Gimmel and a new vowel that makes an Oo sound.
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Today, we learn how to read the letter Gimmel as well as a new vowel which makes an Oo sound like in the word Spoon.(Remember: To request your very own copy of our Hebrew textbook, which corresponds to our online instructional videos, please "Enroll" in Twebrew School by clicking here. ...
Jewish Treats The letter mem is a majestic letter--literally. Learn what we mean in today's #Twebrew School blog.
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The letter mem is a majestic letter--literally. Mem is the first letter of the Hebrew words malchut/royalty and memshalah/dominion. A melech (king) is a leader who rules by the will of the people, whereas ...
Jewish Treats Jta Newsalerts writes this week about an upcoming Taglit-Birthright Israel trip for Jewish young adults with special needs.
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By the end of 2009, Birthright will have brought 28 groups to Israel on specially tailored trips for participants with special needs, including Asperger's syndrome, the hearing impaired, the developmentally disabled and wheelchair users.
Jewish Treats An interesting story about a rare Jewish Jockey in the racing circuit and the challenges he faces (Via The Jewish Daily Forward)
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It’s Off to the Races With a Jockey Named Cohen
Jewish Treats Did you go to Hebrew School when you were a kid? Any memories - good or bad - you'd like to share?
Jewish Treats Action: For a fresh perspective on life, ask a child you know (your own, a niece/nephew, grandchild, friend's child, etc) about their opinion on life, God, Judaism, etc...The answers may surprise you.
Jewish Treats "Be Fruitful, and Multiply". What exactly does that mean? Today's Jewish Treat looks at this in depth.
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The Malthusian theory of overpopulation is a popular doomsday prediction. Thomas Malthus (1766 -1834) proposed that population increases due to improved standards of living would lead to overpopulation, famine, disease and terrifying death rates. ...
Jewish Treats
Today's #Twebrew
instructional video also focuses on the Letter Lamed. Take a look!
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Jewish Treats The Lamed is the first letter in the word Lev (Heart) and also falls at the heart (middle) of the Aleph-Bet. Learn more in today's Twebrew Treat! http://bit.ly/lamd1
Brooke
can you guys do more of what the words mean?? bc I know I am reading a lot of words but I don't know what I am saying half the time... or if you say what it means after I read it I don't know what words meant what hebrew words because hebrew organization is weird.
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