For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” —Ruth 1:16 Conversion to Judaism in Israel is not simple. Nevertheless, some remarkable people have chosen Judaism—chosen to link their lives with the Jewish people through the Israeli Masorti Movement’s welcoming, egalitarian, warm tradition. While the State of Israel recognizes Masorti conversio...
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With tuition at public four-year universities having increased by 213 percent since 1988 (while family income has only risen by 11 percent) and with a vast majority of students now paying for some or all of their college education, more students than ever are left wondering when and how their next healthy meal will come. Two students and one alumni who participated in past cohort groups. As a result, nearly half of...
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By Zelene Lovitt Zelene Lovitt When my mother was 9 years old, she contracted polio. That may be a benign sentence to read in 2019, but it was earth shattering at the time. Not only did polio impact her life, but it had a ripple effect on my own. Polio eventually brought me into the world of inclusion and ultimately gave me a mission to help people with physical, mental and emotional difficulties. A spinal tap g...
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Ellis Corets, now 88, is a Korean War veteran who’s spent the last eight years researching and documenting Jewish service members who were killed or missing in action (M.I.A.) during World Wars I and II, as well as those M.I.A. in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Each of 3,560 soldiers he’s documented are buried or memorialized overseas. When Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum of Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation in Mercer Islan...
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