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| A Challenge to Hillel |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| A challenge to Hillel Centers on Jewish campuses: Shouldn’t Hillel be using its influence on campuses round the globe... |
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| A Gift from Olaf |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| The alcohol tragedy: broken humans that were once beautiful little babies, loved for a least a minute at some point. They had dreams, had hope, yet now are... |
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| A Glimpse of the Garden |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| Rabbis are attacked. Bombs are launched perpetually at Israel, many of them paid for with our tax dollars. It makes no sense at all. What’s going on the world?... |
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| A Hike with the Rabbi |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| Judaism is a religion of action, for both Jews and Noahides…The Yetzer Hara wants us to let our negative emotions take control - it wants us passive... |
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| A Less Conditional Love |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| We should feel remorse for going against God’s will, but we need to move forward and not become, God forbid, trapped in the quicksand of negative emotions. |
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| A Noahide Hanukah Diary |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| “I printed up instructions for how to light the candles, where to place them. We celebrated with an awkward tension. How do we do this? We have no cultural references.” |
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| At Peace with the Past |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| It seems like adults burn substantial emotional energy dealing with issues they were given by their parents. Until we resolve those issues, we find it hard to forgive… |
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| Banana What? |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| Many people think the "Noahide" is type of leather. But, that's rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov places a big emphasis on... |
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| Blaspheming |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| At the heart of it, this commandment is about accepting that when things are not going our way from our perspective, they may be going our way from God’s perspective. |
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| A Tearful Prayer |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem this past March 6th... |
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| A Verdant View |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| Springtime in Georgia – flowering dogwood, blossoming cherry trees, flashy azaleas, and chandelier-like wisteria blossoms... |
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| Another Holocaust? |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| Some are beginning to believe, G-d forbid, that another Holocaust could happen again in our time. Anti-Semitism is on the rise again, it would seem, just about everywhere. |
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| Are we Really Shortchanged? |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| There are moments where the lack of community and structure cause frustrations to build up and make Noahides cry, angry, and feel like someone is ripping them off… |
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| Arguing With the Referee |
| By Alice Jonsson |
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| While you are arguing with the referee, your opponent is taking a breather and calculating his next move. Nobody ever walks away the winner after wasting his energy on anger. |
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