Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Deborah Fineblum / JNS.org
Jewish Seniors Stump for Their 2016 Candidates
JNS.org - When Norma Shulman recently spoke before a gathering of Massachusetts Democrats, she held up the Adlai Stevenson campaign button her mother wore back in...
Seniors Increasingly Use the Web to Expand Their Jewish Horizons
JNS.org - When she was in her 30s, Janet Buchwald fell head over heels in love. With the Hebrew language. Three decades later, whenever the 65-year-old Sudbury, Mass.,...
From Mourning to Mission: Miriam Peretz, Mother of All the Boys
JNS.org - Before 1998, Miriam Peretz’s life was rather ordinary. She and her husband were living in the same house in the Jerusalem suburb of Givat...
Palestinian Terror Wave Has Israel’s Rabbis Searching for Spiritual Solutions
JNS.org - Their pictures and their names are burned on our hearts—victims of terrorism whose final moments we can’t even imagine. It’s in precisely these times...
Shul-Hopping in Safed: a Simhat Torah Treat
JNS.org - On Simhat Torah, it is said, the Torahs long to celebrate. But since they lack feet, we Jews need to lend them ours for 24...
For Hikers, Israel’s 620-Mile National Trail Brings Jewish History to Life
JNS.org - It was a brave—some may argue foolhardy—lot who recently braved the August heat of the Negev desert to walk a short segment of the Israel...
Elvis Lives – at Israeli Restaurant and Gas Station
JNS.org - To appreciate how much Israelis love Elvis Presley, you just have to hear three generations of the Mizrachi family of Rehovot crooning, “Wise men...
Stars, But Not of David: Annual Meteor Show Comes to Israel’s Negev
JNS.org - Want to see with your own two eyes the spilled “milk” in the Milky Way and dozens of shooting stars streaking across the night...
Holy Cow! Red Heifer Project Part of Path From ‘Mourning to Building’ Temple
JNS.org - What weighs 400 pounds, is necessary for the coming of the Third Temple, hasn’t been seen in 2,000 years, and is completely red? If you...
At Jerusalem Genealogy Confab, Passion for Past Unites Experts and Novices
JNS.org - Young folks with backpacks slung over shoulders, middle-aged Americans in designer jeans, men in black velvet kippot, Israelis in khaki shorts. A thousand of...
Israeli Outreach Group Wants Anglos to Feel at Home in the Jewish Homeland
JNS.org - “Israel needs to be a more welcoming place for all Jews,” says Rabbi Reuven Spolter, overseas rabbinic coordinator for Tzohar, an Israeli outreach organization...
When the Homeland Becomes Home: Israel’s Senior Immigrants
JNS.org - Like other Jews his age, Gerry Wine remembers the day Israel was born—May 14, 1948—and the United Nations vote the previous November that opened...
In Jerusalem, a Lifeline for Senior Citizens
Have you ever heard of a lifeline made from paper mâché? Or from silk, clay, paper, wood, or metal? It’s through working with those materials...
Bridging the Gap Year: Hevruta Program Forges Israeli-American Bonds
JNS.org - Eighteen-year-olds have a habit of forming close, family-like relationships with each other. It's rare, however, that Israeli and American teenagers living thousands...
