Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
Lag B’Omer: Top 10 Ways to Celebrate
JNS.org - Lag B’Omer isn’t one of the best-known Jewish holidays, though some may notice that the men whose faces have grown fairly fuzzy following Passover are...
New Study Advances Digital Future of Jewish Learning
JNS.org - A new report on the implications of advancing educational technology and digital engagement hopes to guide the Jewish community through the complex space of hi-tech learning. “Smart Money:...
Holocaust Survivors’ Grandchildren Keep Stories Alive With Help of Vast Archives
JNS.org - As the world marks Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) this week, staffers at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) say they've seen a growing phenomenon: third-generation...
4 Cups, 5 Stars: Kosher Wine Increasingly Popular at Passover Seders
JNS.org - Even the most finicky wine snob won’t be able to “pass over” the new generation of kosher wines. And if Jews are commanded to...
New Documentary Details Extraordinary Holocaust Escape
JNS.org - The mission to tell the world the story of Jack Kagan's risky escape from a Nazi labor camp consumed Kagan and his son Michael for years....
New Israeli Program for Teachers Addresses Diaspora Jewish Education
JNS.org - For Shani Tauber, it all came together when her group left the house of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the religious-Zionist pioneer known as “Rav...
Economic Mission Strengthens Innovation Ties Between Israel and Massachusetts
JNS.org -- Who would ever imagine that two peoples living 5,470 miles apart (that’s 8,803 kilometers for the Israelis) would share so much in common,...
Cousins Torn Apart by the Holocaust Meet for the First Time at Yad Vashem
JNS.org -- When Fania Bilkay and her son, Evgeni, stepped up to her desk, Sima Velkovich was winding down an ordinary work day in the...
Chabad Emissaries Coming to Small Jewish Community of South Dakota
JNS.org -- A state boasting just 400 Jews is about to receive its first full-time Jewish leadership, in an historic move for the community and the Chabad-Lubavitch...
Two Levys Bring Hebrew Music Museum to Life in Jerusalem
JNS.org - Is it a coincidence that the two people most intimately involved in creating the Hebrew Music Museum are both Levys, descendants of the ancient...
One Israeli Nurse to Another: A Love Story
JNS.org - Elie Schiff will tell you flat out that she was born into a family of Zionists. In fact, as far back as she can...
Dr. Birthright: Current, Future Medical Professionals Get to See ‘the Real Israel’
JNS.org - Inviting tomorrow’s doctors to fall in love with Israel today. That’s the whole idea behind the American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine (APF), a specialized track...
Love Letters of the Holocaust
JNS.org - This is a story about the power of letters to span both years and miles, and to unite the hearts of children and their...
Intergenerational Bonds Bloom When Jewish Seniors, Students Share a Campus
JNS.org - When Shirley H. Gould House resident Marilyn Herbst sees the kids from Katz Hillel Day School of Boca Raton, Fla., walk in the front...
