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Riding Life’s Waves with Purpose, Meaning, Joy and Humility
By Deborah Vietor From the age of nine, Shaun Tomson has matriculated in the school of surfing and never looked back. A former ...
FEATURE
Could Use Any Optimism We Can Get
By Dave Gordon, JNS.org About 250,000 accounts follow Hillel Fuld across his social media, making him quite a sought-after figure. Nonetheless, the vocal ...
FEATURE
Tomato Cuajado
By the Sephardic Spice Girls A cuajado (pronounced qua’shado) is sort of a creamy, veggie-filled crustless quiche. A centerpiece of the Eastern Mediterranean ...
ISRAEL
Feeding the Forces
By JEWISHcolorado When JEWISHcolorado Board Member Hirsch Neustein moved to Tel Aviv last April, he could not have predicted how his life was about ...
ISRAEL
Operation Swords of Iron
In September 2023, Dana Ben Kaplan was contacted by the Emergency Volunteers Project (EVP) for a firefighter training deployment to Israel in October. ...
March 2024
Mazel & Mishagoss: What’s in a Name?
What’s In a Name? At a baby naming last week, it dawned on me that I’ve never liked my own name. The unfortunate ...
March 2024
My Comic Relief: Bonds
By Salomon Maya I once believed I possessed the intellect to pursue a medical career in some dystopian past; fortunately, I awakened to ...
March 2024
Prayers and Passages: Sensing God’s Presence
By Rabbi-Cantor Cheri Weiss Last week I had what my husband, Dan, refers to as a “There Must Be a God” moment. I ...
COVER STORY
Warzone Hero
By Franklin Felber On the day Hamas terrorists from Gaza poured across Israel’s border, slaughtering and wounding thousands of men, women, children, and ...
February 2024
Leah Adler, Culinary Star (mom of Steven Spielberg, star director)
Ethel G. Hoffman, JNS.org It was more than 20 years ago when Leah Adler gave me a tour of her Los Angeles restaurant, ...