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1 week ago | aish.com | Kylie Ora Lobell

There’s no question that this is a difficult time for the Jewish people. There are haters on the right and the left, hostile Middle Eastern nations are threatening Israel, and college campuses and social media are rife with antisemitism. Comedy writer Rob Kutner suggests that perhaps it’s time to laugh. “Right now, we are feeling trapped in the endless news cycle of ‘bad news for Jews,’” he said. “We have a layer of doomscrolling within doomscrolling.

2 weeks ago | aish.com | Susan Hornik

On May 13th, Israeli American rapper and activist Kosha Dillz was all set to premiere an unfinished cut of his debut documentary, “Bring the Family Home,” at the Chicago indie arthouse theatre, FACETS. The community screening, co-hosted by the Chicago Jewish Alliance (CJA), focuses on the alarming rise of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses, with a focus on student encampments and tensions at DePaul University and Northwestern University.

2 weeks ago | aish.com | Judy Gruen

Dating my husband pushed me to challenge my views on Judaism and what it means to be a Jew. On our first date, my husband, Jeff, told me he was taking classes at an Orthodox synagogue, discovering meaningful traditional Jewish teachings. In fact, he was thinking of becoming Orthodox himself. I wondered if there was something wrong with attractive man I met.

3 weeks ago | aish.com | Susan Hornik

On October 7th, IDF soldier Yoav Tzivoni was on vacation in Egypt, at the Sinai peninsula. “There was this man that was jogging on the beach who told us there were heavy rocket attacks on the south,” Tzivoni told Aish.com. “I grew up in in a moshav next to Ashdod, about 16 miles from Gaza. So for me, rocket attacks are nothing new.”But hearing how intense the attacks were, Tzivoni went online to see what was going on.

1 month ago | aish.com | Susan Hornik

At a time when Holocaust knowledge is rapidly diminishing – with 20% of people worldwide having never heard of the Holocaust, less than half recognizing its historical accuracy, and over 60% not knowing that six million Jews were murdered – ”Borrowed Spotlight,” a new portrait series book and exhibition in New York City, aspires to be both an educational tool and a call to action.