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…>> ... Next Generation ... Creating sacred space in Burkina Faso. SARA GOODMAN I SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS always joked that for my first post-college job my only requirements were a supermarket and a synagogue. The ironic part is that I have neither of those in my rural village in Burkina Faso in West Africa. I applied to the Peace Corps during my junior year of college after my elementary and middle school music professor said that there...…
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…points of view >> Send letters to: Ietters@thejewishnews.com Contributing Editor Eva's Legacy Mames chapter regrouping to continue support for Israel's emergency service. E va Mames, a proud native of Hungary and a teenage survivor of the Holocaust, was the undis- puted soul of the local support chapter of Israel's medical, disaster relief, ambulance and blood services agency until she died last December at age 81. But the heart- beat of...…
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…S )fritualitv >> Torah portion How Can We Justify Biblical Violence? Parshat Mattot-Masei: Numbers 30:2- 36:13; Jeremiah 2:4-28; 3:4; 4:1-2. 0 ur biblical portion of Mattot opens with God's vengeance against Midian, an avowed enemy of the Israelites who had joined Balak the King of Moab in the hiring of Balaam to curse Israel. The Midianites also seduced Israel to have sex with their women and to engage in idolatrous orgiastic wor- ship o...…
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