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Weekly supplement for The Jerusalem Post on local news
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Living in central Jerusalem can be de ned by a few key characteristics: the shuk, the noise, and, of course, the light rail. Nearly a full year after we here at The Jerusalem Post bemoaned the temporary loss of the Haturim station, the...
Rosh Hashana card, Elul is the Jew’s testing device ahead of the new year. For me, the lesson of Elul is made clear when I listen in our neighborhood to young and old practicing the sounding of the shofar. Each day the notes get stronger....
Call it escapism, clutching at straws in times of need, or a genuine belief in better things to come, but the idea of the Messiah has been a central concept not only of Judaism, but also Christianity and Islam, for many a year. It should be...