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The 11 days I spent in Natz, Italy, on a BBYO cultural exchange titled ZWST Winter Machane, included some of the most incredible, humbling and eye-opening experiences of my life. ZWST is BBYO’s partner movement in Germany.
On Nov. 18, 2019, seven Cleveland Jewish mothers from different backgrounds embarked on a weeklong journey to Israel that promised emotional and spiritual enrichment, learning and, of course, fun. Wow, did it ever deliver on its promise.
This summer will be my fourth and final year participating in the JCC Maccabi Games and ArtsFest – an Olympic-style sporting and arts event for Jewish teens from around the world. This summer they will be hosted in both San Diego and at Pace University in New York City. I’m hoping to attend …
A 20-year-old young man and his 13-year-old sister fled their Mexican farm after their parents were executed on their property. They are in the Hogar de Esperanza y Paz shelter in Nogales, Mexico, and hope to be reunited with their older sister in New Jersey. While they wait for a chance to …
On Sept. 1, I had the privilege with 17 other travelers of what turned out to be the trip of a lifetime. Each of us embarked with certain expectations, but none of us could have anticipated either the emotional impact of our pilgrimage – of joy and optimism far more than that of loss and sor…
Mrs. Shule Kazen was hoping to finally settle down.
Last month, I had the incredible opportunity to join 30,000 other Jewish teens and embark on a journey that would prove to be a trip that would be forever embedded in my heart, mind and soul.
On behalf of the Laurel School community, we express our deep sadness on the passing of Stanley Bernath on March 26.
While the day designated on the Jewish calendar as Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the 27th of Nisan, which this year corresponds with May 2, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day established by the United Nations is Jan. 27. Even as each of the days is meant to recall th…
Cleveland Heights High School’s annual trip to African-American Museum of History and Culture and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is always an important event for
Szarvas Camp was established in 1990 after the fall of Communism. The camp was founded by the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, an organization committed to reviving Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. Being such, the camp’s intention was – and still is – to revive European Jewry after the…
Recently at our Shabbat table, while playing Jewish geography, one of our guests said he remembered Rabbi Zalman Kazen, and was excited to learn he was my wife’s grandfather. He told us that in 1972, when he was 5 years old, his family immigrated to Cleveland from the former Soviet Union.
