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A week ago was my mom’s birthday. It has now been one year and ten months since she died. I lit a yahrzeit candle that burned all day and through the night until the early morning hours. I don’t know why, but I find it very comforting to have my mom’s candle burning - a sense that she is with me.

Any chametz left undisposed must be sold to a non-Jew. Since there are many legal intricacies involved in this sale, a rabbi acts as our agent both to sell the chametz to the non-Jew on the morning before Passover and also to buy it back the evening after Passover ends.

This book probes the complex interweaving, across time and cultures, of violence and non-violence from the perspective of the present. One of the first of its kind, it offers a comprehensive examination of the interpenetration of violence and non-violence as much in human nature as in human institutions with reference to different continents, cultures and religions over centuries.

A Glimpse Into The Life Of An Israeli - A Glimpse into the Life of an Israeli The State of Israel, or Israel as it is unofficially called, is a country that offers little diversity in its topography and natural resources, but is flush in historical and culture value.

Fans of the long-running Showtime series Weeds know that writer and creator Jenji Kohan isn’t afraid to pepper the show with Jewish themes. While the show has changed its flavour over the years and gained some critics, many devotees still enjoy the story about a marijuana-selling widowed mother from the suburbs and her family’s experiences.

Jean Zaru, the longtime activist and Quaker leader from Ramallah, here brings home the pain and central convictions that animate Christian nonviolence and activity today. Zaru vividly paints the complex realities faced by all parties in Palestine — Jews and Muslims and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians, women and men. Yet even as Zaru eloquently names the common misunderstandings of the.

As cultures making use of a given myth change, the accompanying myths sometimes change, but often do not—“only” their interpretation changes. Following Adam and Eve through history demonstrates the enduring power of myth, its firm place in human consciousness and community, and its dual function as both social glue and social mirror.

For some, the commitment to non-violence entails a belief in restorative or transformative justice, an abolition of the death penalty and other harsh punishments. This may involve the necessity of caring for those who are violent. Nonviolence, for many, involves a respect and reverence for all sentient, and perhaps even non-sentient, beings.

Joseph Raya was born in Zahle, Lebanon, on August 15th, 1916, the sixth of seven children in a family of devout Christian Arabs. As a result of his formal education, he quickly attained fluency in Arabic, French, and Greek. Educated in Zahle, Paris, and Jerusalem, he was exposed to a variety of formative experiences and cosmopolitan environments.

Four Species: Four Types Of People Adapted from Likkutei Sichos, Vol. II, Simchas Torah; Vol. IV, Sukkos; Vol. XIX, Sukkos. The holidays celebrated in the month of Tishrei are of comprehensive significance () and the symbolism associated with their distinctive mitzvos is broad in scope.In this context, the Midrash () explains that the mitzvah of the lulav and esrog symbolizes the intrinsic.

Featured event. Sunday, March 15. Klezmer Fest: noon-5 p.m., East Valley JCC, 908 N. Alma School Road, Chandler. Second annual Klezmer Fest featuring live performances by klezmer bands, workshops in Yiddish, genealogy and klezmer music, kosher food and children’s activities, including inflatables, a petting zoo and face painting.