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Teaching about the Holocaust: The Next Generation

Posted on 12/24/2012 by Gila Rose in Beliefs and Practices

Over Chanukah, I took my nine-and-a-half year old daughter to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum. She has always (though, considering she’s only nine and a half, “always” is a...

What's in a Name

Posted on 12/17/2012 by Gila Rose in News & Updates

Names. We Jews place a lot of importance on them. The Bible, for example, spends what seems like an inordinate amount of time discussing names, reasons for names and name changes. Why? Because a name is so...

Chanukah's Other Lessons

Posted on 12/09/2012 by Gila Rose in Holidays

Chanukah is full of life lessons. The most major and obvious one is the one we sing about in the special “Al Hanissim” prayer addition during Chanukah: We praise God that He helped His people...

Faith: A Personal Manifesto

Posted on 12/02/2012 by Gila Rose in Beliefs and Practices

What does “faith” (in Hebrew, “emunah”) mean to you?Here’s what it means to me:Pray for good stuff happen and for the strength to get through the bad stuff.And to me, this kind of...

The Good Stuff

Posted on 11/26/2012 by Gila Rose in News & Updates

It’s “sit back and smile” week on the JVO blog! Every so often, it’s helpful to look at some of the good things going on in our world. It’s been a serious couple of weeks, both in...

Notes From the Trenches

Posted on 11/18/2012 by Gila Rose in Israel

Well, not exactly. Modiin is still siren-free, though with rockets hitting near Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, I wonder how long that will last. (When you live in a country the size of New Jersey, and all your...

Another Day, Another Hundred Rockets

Posted on 11/12/2012 by Gila Rose in Israel

As a friend so astutely put it, “When the number of rockets climbs beyond 140, it’s no longer adequate to say ‘100+.’”Once again, the residents of southern Israel are under rocket...

Hurricane Sandy, From Afar

Posted on 11/04/2012 by Gila Rose in News & Updates

There are many challenges to being a dual citizen. For example: election season. For Israeli Americans, just as the American elections are winding down and we can stop the heated Obama vs. Romney debates, we...

And Tzniut For All

Posted on 10/29/2012 by Gila Rose in Beliefs and Practices

One day, my son started streaking through the house in nothing but his Lighting McQueen underwear. While he’s still young enough to be cute, he’s old enough to know better, so I told him to stop....

War: Who's Ready??

Posted on 10/22/2012 by Gila Rose in News & Updates

A friend of mine just had a baby, and her mother is here visiting for a few weeks. She pulled me over last night, and in a low voice asked, “So, do you guys have supplies? Just in case?”“Of...

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