Do you use Waze to find your way from one place to another? You can thank 3 Israelis who developed it in 2008 to offer real-time traffic updates for drivers in Israel to avoid congestion, accidents and other activity that results in slow-downs or detours. At the time, Uri Levin, Ehud Shabtai, and Amir Shinar …
Rabbi Noam Raucher, MA.Ed — Executive Director, FJMC International The Torah’s account of Sinai is not gentle. Neither is my account of growing into manhood. Much like our ancestors’ experience receiving the Torah eons ago, my experience receiving the Torah contained in masculinity was filled with confusion, awe, fear, trembling and pressure. That’s not to …
Rabbi Noam Raucher, MA.Ed — Executive Director, FJMC International The Book of Numbers begins, unsurprisingly, by counting. At the opening of Bamidbar (lit. In the wilderness), God tells Moses to take a census of the Israelites: tribe by tribe, household by household, name by name. It is easy to read the moment as administrative. A nation in …
Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was born to Jewish parents in Hamburg, Germany, but as a child he was converted to Christianity, along with his siblings and his parents, as was somewhat popular in the area during the early 19th century as a way to emancipate from the Jewish ghetto …
Rabbi Noam Raucher, MA.Ed — Executive Director, FJMC International Men are often taught to treat money as proof of manhood. Not just as a practical necessity. As evidence. Evidence that you are competent, desirable, serious, protective, respectable. Evidence that you can provide, recover, endure. Evidence that your life is moving forward. And if that evidence …
Shalom Brothers! Mamas’ Boys Season 1 Finale goes live at 8am PT on Thursday, May 7. Even though episode 5 is our final one for this season, it was recorded shortly after the Bondi Beach attacks during Hanukkah. And despite the recording date, the discussion about Jewish men and protection remains relevant now. As antisemitism …
Rabbi Noam Raucher, MA.Ed — Executive Director, FJMC International Shlomo Bardin, the visionary founder of Brandeis-Bardin, famously taught that Judaism is “caught, not taught.” He was right, and also only half right. Judaism is contagious. It travels through melody, gesture, hospitality, rhythm, meals, posture, atmosphere. It gets into a person through the body before it …
11 first-timers join veterans at regional gathering By Stan Schnitzer They could have formed a minyan of their own. With 11 first-timers attending the Anshei Darom Region’s annual retreat from April 17-19, at Camp Ramah Darom in North Georgia, newcomers formed a third of the retreat’s roster this year. The retreat opened eyes and …
How to beat the hunger monster By Al Davis Let’s face it. We’ve all been there. It comes creeping up on us like a crouching tiger – a snack attack. Doesn’t matter if we’ve eaten recently or not, when the snack attack hits us, it’s virtually irresistible. Sure, and we’ve heard all the platitudes. …
Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968), Jewish scientist who has an element on the Periodic Table named for her. In the Periodic Table of the Elements, there are two elements named after women scientists. The namesake of Curium is well known, but the other scientist is unjustly obscure– Austrian-born Jewish physicist Elise “Lise” Meitner, who overcame …
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