Soul Searching

Just a Jewish girl with Zionistic feelings and opinions.

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A US Army Soldier Lights Menorah With His Family, 1950s

(by Center for Jewish History, NYC)

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I recall something the Lubavitcher Rebbe told me when I went to the UN.

He told me: ‘Remember that even when you are in a world that is all dark and you light one candle, one candle of truth, the light – the precious light that this candle gives off, is seen from !afar.’ We will continue to act in this spirit.

- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Sheet music: Kol Nidre - 1913

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VIA ARAB SOCIAL MEDIA: Candy time, after brutal killing of a 60 year old defenseless grandmother and a newlywed 30 year old Israeli police officer our “peace partners” are handing out candy to celebrate.

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Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay! A shout out to Israel, Jews, and indigenous peoples around the globe! Jewish claim to the land of Israel is represented in the very name of the place itself. Jews are from Judea. LIKE and SHARE. 

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Hypocrisy

via @afagerbakke

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Date a Jew who will get into arguments about Halacha with you

Isn’t that every Jew

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DEVOTED WIFE

“Hi there I wanted to share this photo of my wonderfully amazing kindhearted grandparents. My grandmother wakes up very early every morning to say her prayers, open the door for her helper, and sets the table to prepare for anyone who should come over. She then waits a bit for my grandfather to wake up, and helps him into the kitchen to eat. After breakfast, she takes him to the living room where she wraps his Tefillin for him and says all of the morning prayers out loud so that he can say some of the parts that are familiar because he can’t see or remember things too well. She has done this every single morning for the last year.”

#Tefillin #Selfie #Telfie — with Roya Danesh Zaman, Ronit Danesh Zollelhyan and Yassi Zollelhyan.

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Yaghob Ghermezian Sephardic Center in Baltimore, Maryland; 2015. x

Ohr Hamizrach, meaning ‘light of the east’ in Hebrew, is the synagogue that is a part of the Yaghob Ghermezian Sephardic Center.  Congregation Ohr Hamizrach was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1981 with just 10 members who immigrated to Baltimore from Iran.  Today, it is home to over a hundred Persian-Jewish families and serves as a center for Persian-Jewish life in Baltimore.  The Yaghob Ghermezian Sephardic Center provides classes on Judeo-Persian language, Jewish-Persian culture, as well as rents out space for bar/bat-miztvah ceremonies, weddings, and other events.

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Watch: The most wonderful moment of joy came when he entered a Nazi guard bungalow.

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We are the last generation who can hear from these survivors directly. Do not take that lightly. Do not waste that opportunity. Do not forget your freedom isn’t infinitely guarenteed. And do not, do not, let it happen again.

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Really truly, watch the video, reblog it. Teaching about the holocaust is so necessary for our generation before it slips under the rug and people forget about it.

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We Jews do not live in the past, but the past most certainly lives within us.

David Ben Gurion (via averyl-ongtimeago)

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Newspaper montage of The New York Times, The Baltimore News, and The Evening World concerning the Arab Riots in the British Mandate of Palestine; 1929. x

On this day in history - August 24, 1929 - the historic Jewish community of Hebron, which had existed in Hebron since Biblical Times, was ethnically cleansed by Arab mobs who were incited over untrue rumors that Jewish people were going to seize the Temple Mount for themselves.  This lead to the murders of 67 Jewish men, women, and children with many others injured in what is known as the Hebron Massacre.  Of the survivors, several Muslim families did hide their Jewish neighbors, but many other Jewish survivors held off their attackers for many hours before British police escorted them to safety.

Hillel Cohen notes in his book 1929: Year Zero of the Jewish-Arab Conflict, “No factor contributed more to the gathering under a joint political roof of [both] the veteran Jewish communities and the Zionist Yishuv that was then being renewed, than the riots of 1929. The Arab attacks forced the Eastern and Maghrebi Jews who were living in the country, including those who had previously recoiled from doing so, to join the Zionists, take shelter beneath their wings and ask for their protection. Or, to put it more sharply: The Arabs created in 1929 the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine.”

 A Jewish community would not be reestablished in Hebron until 1968, with the establishment of the Kiryat Arba settlement.

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Watch This Tearjerker Commencement Address by a Jewish Legal Superstar

Each year, commencement speakers have the challenge of blending the inspirational with the wry, the pragmatic with the idealistic. But sometimes, a personal history fits the bill.

Rosalie Abella, the first Jewish woman to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court, addressed Yale Law graduates last month while receiving an honorary degree, reminding them that in difficult times, being a lawyer is important because “it’s not just what the profession stands for – it’s what it stands up for”:

Abella, who was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946, told the story of her father having to stand in the back of the classroom during his first year of law school in Poland, and how he took his judges’ exam the day WWII broke out. He spent the war in a concentration camp and becoming an insurance agent upon immigrating to Canada. The day Abella learned that he had been unable to use the degree for which he’d worked so hard, she decided to become a lawyer herself — at age four.

Law, Abella reminds the crop of new lawyers, is nothing unless it advocates on behalf of the vulnerable. If you’re old enough to have a flashing “tears” sign implanted in your heart, give her whole speech a listen.

Jewniverse

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The IDF is a bit different from other Middle Eastern armies it seems.

Yesterday this 3 y.o. Arab boy showed up a at a checkpoint scared, and unable to say where he lived. He was taken care of by border police until his parents were found.

World Israel News

h/t @חיילים מצייצים

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Stanford student: Saying Jews control banks isn’t necessarily anti-Semitism

At a meeting of Stanford University's Undergraduate Senate last night, a student senator said the idea that Jews control "the media, economy, government and other societal institutions” is "not…

at this point i kinda sorta just want to run with ‘jews are evil’ because at least i will have some sort of evidence to point to when i lose my shit and destroy the entire planet in a rage

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