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Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center Launches First of Its Kind Global Gathering of Music and Prayer Leaders
Press Release | Jul. 9, 2024
Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center (FJC) launches a new international Jewish spiritual music summit in the beating heart of Jerusalem. Throughout the week-long program, participants aim to explore what spiritual music-making looks like both within mainstream Jewish institutions and without, establish deep interpersonal and professional relationships, and share innovative ideas and best practices.
Interview: In Israel, the Jewish holiday of Purim feel less celebratory amid war
NPR: All Things Considered | Mar. 25, 2024
Today in Jerusalem, a festive parade rolled through the city center in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim. It’s the first time in more than 40 years the city has hosted an official Purim parade even as many say now is not the time for public celebrations. NPR’s Carrie Kahn reports.
Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center’s Boston Women Leadership & Solidarity Mission Brings Gender Lens to October 7 Atrocities & Efforts to Build a Shared Society
Press Release | Jan. 10, 2024
The Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center (FJC), with the support of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston, is currently running the second in a series of four specialized solidarity missions. This three-day Boston Jewish women’s leadership and solidarity mission began two days ago with the arrival of the group composed solely of Boston-area women who are leaders at the forefront of US Jewish and feminist organizations.
Israel Struggling To Identify Many Of The 1,400 Hamas Victims
Religion Unplugged | Nov. 2, 2023
RAMLA, Israel — Since Hamas’ savage Oct. 7 cross-border assault on multiple army bases, kibbutzim, cities and a music festival near the Gaza Strip, staff at the Israel Defense Forces’ Shura Army Base have been working around the clock to identify the bodies of the 1,100 civilians and 315 soldiers, reservists and police officers massacred by jihadi terrorists.
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‘We were broken to see what we saw’: US rabbis visit Israel during wartime
Jewish Telegraphic Agency | Nov. 1, 2023
JERUSALEM — Wearing army-green helmets and bulletproof vests, the group of American rabbis and community leaders stood next to the ruins of a building at Kibbutz Be’eri as Cantor Luis Cattan chanted El Maleh Rachamim, the traditional Jewish prayer for the dead, for “all those who were murdered in Israel and beyond.”
At this unique yearlong Torah study program in Jerusalem, students are encouraged to ask ‘Why?’
Jewish Telegraphic Agency | Apr. 20, 2023
JERUSALEM – Walk the streets of Jerusalem on any given weekday morning, and you will discover there’s no shortage of intensive Torah study in this city that symbolizes the beating heart of the Jewish people.
Podcast: How does it feel? Bob Dylan thinker explores the singer’s spiritual wisdom
The Times of Israel | Apr. 29, 2022
This week, host Jessica Steinberg speaks with Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff, newly minted author of “About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan” (Morgan James). Arnoff is a passionate music lover and musician, a side gig to his professional role as CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center.
The Sting That Cuts Through Numbness: Horseradish On Pandemic Passover Tables
National Public Radio | Mar. 27, 2021
Grating horseradish is serious business. The volatile oil that’s released can cut right through you. Leah Koenig, who has written six Jewish cookbooks, knows that firsthand. “It kind of goes into your nose, and up into nasal cavities, and you kind of feel like you’re getting a cleanse going on,” Koenig laughs, “but not a pleasant one.”
For these Talmud students, COVID-19 offers bliss of extra time to learn
The Times of Israel | Aug. 11, 2020
In the annals of online learning and Zoom fatigue during the coronavirus pandemic, frustrated users abound, including many students, parents and teachers. But for a select group of Talmud scholars, COVID-19 presented an unusual opportunity to learn together in a small, tight-knit group, despite distance and time differences.
Kenya Jewish leader with valid visa denied entry to Israel, deported
The Times of Israel | Dec. 19, 2017
A Kenyan Jewish leader who arrived in Israel on Monday night was denied entry into the country by the Interior Ministry and deported to Ethiopia. The rejection by Israeli authorities of Yehudah Kimani — who had come to the Jewish state for a three-week study program — was seen by activists as part of the ongoing discrimination by Israel against Jews from emerging communities around the world.
Egalitarian worshipers told Knesset synagogue off-limits
The Times of Israel | Nov. 27, 2014
American rabbinical students from the Conservative movement studying in Israel were prevented from holding afternoon prayers in the Knesset synagogue. The students, who on Tuesday wished to hold an egalitarian service in the Knesset synagogue, were told that the synagogue is to be used exclusively for Orthodox prayer services, the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel said in a Facebook post.