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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

Debra Rubin

Dane Kutler and Rowan Parker celebrating at one of their 10 wedding ceremonies in 2013. (photo credit: JTA)
January 13, 2014, 10:35 am
10th time the charm for Seattle pair
To avoid one big party a couple has 10 weddings in 10 locations for 150 friends and family
By Debra Rubin
An image from 'Hanukkah in America: A History' (photo credit: New York University Press),
November 27, 2013, 9:47 pm
Since the 1800s, Hanukkah in the US is a response to Xmas
A new book shows it’s not a recent phenomenon that Jews battle Christmas jealousy by giving the Jewish holiday more prominence
By Debra Rubin
Susan Esther Barnes (photo credit: Courtesy Susan Esther Barnes)
September 7, 2013, 12:00 am
Mikvah immersion makes a Reform woman feel ‘whole’
After settling her late father’s affairs, a daughter finds a healing ceremony in the ritual bath she’d shied from for years
By Debra Rubin
Tamid fellows, pictured in Jerusalem, travel to Israel to deepen their understanding of both the country and its business scene. (Courtesy of Tamid Israel Investment Group)
September 2, 2013, 5:53 am
College group gets students ‘invested’ in Israel
Growing university organization gives members business experience — and a chance to express their Zionism
By Debra Rubin
Barbi Paszternak-Szendy and Andras Paszternak tied the knot at a Central European summer camp intended to strengthen Jewish kids' understanding of their heritage. (Marton Karsai via JTA)
August 17, 2013, 7:17 pm
Jewlyweds! Former campers marry where they met
Slovak-Hungarian couple finds true love at summer sleepaway site that brought them together
By Debra Rubin
Micha'el BedarShah washes the feet of his bride, Aumatma, during the first wedding ceremony held at Urban Adamah, a Jewish educational farm in Berkeley, Calif., June 30, 2013. (photo credit: courtesy Micha'el BedarShah/JTA)
August 1, 2013, 5:54 am
A Berkeley farm hosts a modern Essene ceremony
In planning their Jewish-Hindu wedding, an interfaith couple is surprised at the number of shared traditions
By Debra Rubin
Jewish Federations of North America president Eric Fingerhut. (Courtesy)
July 24, 2013, 6:31 am
A new captain to steer Hillel’s 550 ships
As a college freshman, Eric Fingerhut ‘followed the singing’ and got to Hillel. Will his future as president be as harmonious?
By Debra Rubin
Home page for the website The Third Narrative. (photo credit: courtesy)
July 19, 2013, 5:50 pm
How to be supportive of Palestinians, and a Zionist
Launched this week, The Third Narrative is aimed at countering anti-Israel activity by the progressive far left, from the progressive far left
By Debra Rubin
US Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) addresses a 2013 Survivor Initiative event held in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month. (courtesy of MAK Photography)
May 24, 2013, 8:02 pm
Young philanthropists take up plight of US Holocaust survivors
The Survivor Initiative, a volunteer project for young adults, raises funds and responds to survivors’ urgent needs — hopefully soon with the help of new US legislation
By Debra Rubin
(illustrative flower image via Shutterstock)
May 12, 2013, 2:36 am
Jewish battered women shed ‘happy tears’ on Mother’s Day
Sending flowers to shelters via a Jewish Women International project raises abused mothers’ spirits — and public awareness
By Debra Rubin
Graphic novelist Christopher Huh. (photo credit: courtesy)
April 5, 2013, 7:52 pm
Korean-American Christian teen teaches the Shoah
Eighth-grader Christopher Huh creates a Polish-born Jewish grandfather for his graphic novel for kids, ‘Keeping My Hope’
By Debra Rubin
Congregation Kahal Kadosh Shaare Shalom is Jamaica's only remaining synagogue. (Courtesy of Congregation Kahal Kadosh Shaare Shalom via JTA)
December 24, 2012, 4:22 pm
Jamaican Jews see intermarriage, conversion as their future
Assimilation and emigration present the greatest challenges to one of the western hemisphere’s oldest communities
By Debra Rubin
A man uses his cellphone to transmit the blowing of the shofar at the Western Wall. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)
September 11, 2012, 12:57 am
The smartphone joins the shofar as a High Holiday prayer accessory
Please text and Facebook during the service, urge congregation leaders throughout the US
By Debra Rubin
Canoers in the Tikvah program at Camp Ramah in Palmer, Massachusetts, which accommodates youngsters with special needs. (photo credit: Camp Ramah/JTA)
July 27, 2012, 2:24 am
Blind camper’s case highlights Jewish camps’ struggle to include special needs cases
With costs per disabled camper triple those of their ‘regular’ cohort, kids with disabilities are not always afforded the care they require
By Debra Rubin
Jeffrey Cohen, right, with fellow members of the 6th New York Independent Battery Civil War reenactors. (photo credit: Robert Fagan)
July 19, 2012, 5:06 am
Taking to the battlefields with Jewish Civil War reenactors
‘Sons of Abraham’ carry muskets — and Shabbat candles — to ‘battles’ at Gettysburg, Antietam and Bull Run
By Debra Rubin
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