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Interior of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagogue showing railing and ceiling, Charleston, South Carolina, 1979
For more images, visit the William A. Rosenthall Postcards and Prints & Photographs collections in the Lowcountry Digital Library. Click here for more information on Rosenthall.
A Synagogue A Day is also on Twitter.
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(Source: atheistorthodox)
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Beautiful ornate door in Jerusalem by brooksonbreak.com
(via Historic Door in the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem)
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Shalom Life To Live Tweet at Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv
Check out @ShalomLife to keep posted on the day’s events
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Haifa, Israel
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Father and son serve side-by-side in reserves
In the five years following his mandatory service in the IAF, Orel Edri had never once been called to reserve duty, something that very much bothered him.
“I felt like I wasn’t contributing and I really wanted to,” he toldThe Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, during IDF reservists’ appreciation week. “I don’t know if it was because something was wrong, or they had no need to ask me.”
“You can look at it from a selfish point of view: I wanted the feeling of pitching in; it brings me back six years ago to my service,” he stressed.
Frustrated at the situation, Edri turned to his father, Moshe Edri, who works at the Israel Electric Company in Ashdod and has been serving in the reserves since 1982 as a vehicle mechanic.
“I understood that they were missing soldiers in his battalion, so I told him I wanted to join,” Orel explained.
It has now been about six months since he started serving in the reserves side by side with Moshe, for whom serving is “part of [his] love for Israel.”
“Every time they call me, I’m happy and I’m excited,” Moshe told the Post. “It’s fun to contribute. For as long as I can do that, feel like I help, that I am important, and receive good feedback, I will continue to serve.”
“The day they tell me that I’m a burden, I’ll go home,” he continued.
Moshe added that serving with his son allows them to enjoy “quality time” together.(Source: jpost.com)
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(Source: catch-my-fancy)
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Breakthrough Jew - Max Aaron
This U.S. National Figure Skating Gold Medalist (and former hockey player) looks forward to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.
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Bethany's ( ^ . ^ ): LYRICS TO ICE ICE BABY IN YIDDISH
יאָ, וויפּ, לאָזן ס בריק עס!
אייז ייַז בעיבי
אייז ייַז בעיבי
כל רעכט האַלטן
מיטאַרבעטן און הערן
אייז איז צוריק מיט מיין סאָרט נייַ דערפינדונג
עפּעס גראַבס אַ האַלטן פון מיר טייטלי
דעמאָלט איך לויפן אַז אַ כאַרפּון טעגלעך און נייטלי
וועט עס אלץ האַלטן?
יאָ, איך טאָן ניט וויסן
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The Negev: Part of Israel’s Past and Present
The Negev Desert is rich in Jewish history and is legally recognized by the international community as part of the State of Israel, despite this the Palestinian Authority has labeled the Negev as a settlement.
Al Hayat Al Jadida,the Palestinian Authority official daily newspaper claimed the Negev is a ‘settlement’ in a recent article, Palestinian Media Watch reports. The Palestinian Authority also claims that all Jewish communities in mainland Israel, not just the disputed Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, to be settlements, and part of Palestine or occupied Palestine. This implies that Israel is still building settlements whether or not they are in Judea and Samaria, so long as Israel building in an area that the Palestinians claim as their own.
However, out of all of the areas within mainland Israel where Israel builds, anti-Israel activists tend to focus on the Negev the most. Without the Negev Desert, Israel would be a small non-viable state, a fact which motivates anti-Israel activists to focus on it. The article in Al Hayat Al Jadida referred to Israel building in the Negev as a “settlement trick,” in actuality this is part of a ploy by anti-Israel activists to attempt to separate the Negev Desert from the Jewish people, because the Negev makes up 66 percent of the State of Israel. Any Israeli withdrawal from the Negev would allow for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to connect PA controlled areas there to Gaza and Egypt.
The International Community has recognized the Negev as part of Israel
Before its founding, David Ben-Gurion viewed the Negev as pivotal to the future of any Israeli state and he successfully argued for the Negev’s inclusion as part of a Jewish state at the United Nations during the Partition Plan discussions. Even though the UN Partition Plan was rejected by the Arabs, almost all countries outside the Muslim world today recognize that Israel has a right to exist within the pre-1967 borders. This implies that the community of nations has already recognized the Negev as part of Israel, regardless of the outcome of any peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
Jewish History in the Negev
The Negev is also filled with Jewish history. Ancient Jewish texts write about desert oasis of Ein Gedi which is located within the Negev. King David, while fleeing from King Saul, hid in Ein Gedi. The Song of Songs attributed to King Solomon says, “My beloved to me is a spray of henna blooms from the vineyards of Ein Gedi.” The Talmud claims that Jews continued to live in Ein Gedi following the destruction of the First Temple and Ein Gedi had a thriving Jewish community during the times of the Second Temple. Jews continued to live in the area of Ein Gedi up through the sixth century, when the community was wiped out during oppressions instigated by Byzantine Emperor Justinian. In modern times however, Jews have returned to Ein Gedi which is now a national park, and Kibbutz Ein Gedi has a population of about 250 people today.
Masada is another important piece of Jewish history to be found in the Negev. The Masada Fortress which was built by King Herod, who ruled Israel during the times of the Roman Empire. After the great Jewish revolt against Rome in 70 CE, the Zealot group fled to the Masada Fortress, where they continued to fight against Roman oppression until they chose mass suicide rather than giving in to the yoke of Roman tyranny. Today the Masada Fortress of the Negev, is the second most popular tourist destination in Israel and Israeli soldiers often take their oaths at the archaeological site.
By Rachel Avraham, staff writer for United With Israel
