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A Deeper Understanding of Anti-Semitism -Purim blog I
There are some people who by nature alarmists. Those folks are the types who I would hear say, speaking about anti-semitism in the United...
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Aug 24, 20193 min read
A World Apart -Parsha Blog
People do not know what to make of ultra-orthodox Jews, yet they are often fascinated by them as well. They are one of us, a member of...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20193 min read
Running Together in Tel Aviv Marathon
Last Friday I had the thrilling experience of running in the Tel Aviv marathon. Let me qualify that, I ran in the 10 K race as part of...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20193 min read
Exercising Good Judgement -Parsha Video Blog
Shortly after the founding of the State of Israel, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence,...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20193 min read
The Foundation of Freedom & The Rock of Israel -Parsha Blog
Within the first two sentences of the US Declaration of Independence, G-d is mentioned twice. It speaks of ‘the station to which Nature’s...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20193 min read
Tu B'Shvat, a Holiday of Renewal
Tu B’shvat for me as a kid meant giving money to plant a tree in Israel, and eating fruits indigenous to Israel. We would then get a...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20193 min read
Songs of Celebration: Moshe by the Sea and Naomi in Jerusalem
Jerusalem of Gold is possibly the most well-known contemporary Jewish song, certainly the most well-known Israeli song. People are...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20193 min read
The Power of the Spirit: More than a Passover Bar-b-q -Parsha Blog
History documents many revolutions of the oppressed over the ruling powers. In more recent times the French revolution and the Russian...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20195 min read
Anxiety, Depression and the Hope of Redemption -Parsha Blog
Over one tenth of the population in the US has been treated with anti-depressant medicine in the past month, studies show. Some people...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20193 min read
Desensitization, Egyptian Slavery and the Holocaust -Parsha Blog
Jews scrubbing the streets of Vienna in May 1938 before the war _________________________________________________________________________...
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Aug 24, 20192 min read
The Mountain Fortress of the Last King of Judea
We are standing at the Herodion, the fortress built by King Herod, the last Jewish kind to rule in the past 2000 years. He was a...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20191 min read
Jewish Self-Defense: From the Maccabes to Modern Israel
Trumpeldor Tel Aviv Cemetery If you want to know about the history of a place, go to the cemetery. In Paris and Rome the cemeteries are...
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Aug 24, 20191 min read
Chanukah in the Streets of Jerusalem
We are here in Jerusalem in the Old City, a few hundred meters away from the Temple Mount where the miracle of Chanukah happened. As you...
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Aug 24, 20191 min read
Discover the Heart of Tel Aviv
This is Rabbi Jonathan Feldman coming to you from Tel Aviv, and you can see behind me the city, the coastline which sprung out of sand...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20194 min read
We are all family
This year right after Yom Kippur hit its concluding crescendo with the blowing of the shofar, the synagogue broke into singing ‘next year...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20194 min read
A Story of Return
This week, which is the week leading up to Rosh Hashanah, we say extra prayers, called Selichot, or Prayers of Forgiveness, to prepare us...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20194 min read
My Move to Israel by Noa Feldman, 11 years old
Hi this is Noa Feldman. I am Rabbi Jonathan Feldman’s daughter. That means that I also made Aliya. I’m an 11 year old girl moving to a...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20195 min read
Happiness, Expectations and Israel
We are going into our fourth week in Israel, and we now feel like the veterans. The first Shabbat was very moving, both Friday night at...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20194 min read
Shabbat in Israel by Shifra Feldman
Shalom from the Holy Land! It is 3 weeks post Aliyah for our family and I would like to share a few thoughts…. The neighborhood where we...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20194 min read
First Week in Israel
We landed in Israel a week ago. This milestone is significant because we are used to coming to Israel for a week, and then heading back...
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rabbijonathanf
Aug 24, 20194 min read
Why We Moved to Israel
Three months ago, we moved to Israel to fulfill a lifelong dream. It is often the most mundane moments of being here in Israel that we...
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