Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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Just five days before the 87th anniversary of the two-day pogrom on German and Austrian Jews and Jewish communities, known as Kristallnacht (Nov. 9-10, 1938), an eerily familiar feeling is being felt by the American Jewish consciousness following the disturbing election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor-elect of New York City. This sentiment begs the question: What’s going to be with the Jews? The answer in 1938 was that the very people who had contributed for so many years to the advancement of Europe’s most enlightened soc...
(JNS) — Each year in the weeks leading up to Passover, I sit down with my children, one on one, for something I’ve come to cherish deeply: preparing a personal d’var Torah, or Torah thought, ahead of our family seder. It’s become a quiet tradition in our home—time carved out not for homework or logistics but for Torah. For ideas. As my son, Jake, and I began to think about the topic for this year’s d’var Torah, we turned to the Haggadah for inspiration. What we struck was the proverbial jackpot of ideas, where Torah and family history are i...
