By CJP's Dan Seligson, Eva Schlitz, and Craig Byer
This week marks Yom Yerushalayim! What’s that, you ask? It’s a national holiday in Israel that celebrates the day Jerusalem, which had been divided, was reunified. This year marks the Jubilee Year, which is 50 years since that day, …
By Barry Shrage, CJP President
Whenever the Torah wishes to impress on us the Mitzvah of having compassion and sympathy for the oppressed in society, it reminds us of our similar helplessness and lowly status during our bondage in Egypt. The most defenseless elements in society are usual…
By Barry Shrage, CJP President
Boston mourns with Israel for Shira Tzur and other victims of terror.
HaMakom yenachem et'chem b'toch shar avay'lay Tzion v'Yerushalayim.
May God comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
I just finished saying these words to Dudi Tz…
This year's fellows focused on the Holocaust within the framework of gender and women's studies.
By Barry Shrage, President of CJP
As we celebrate Chanukah this week, many of us will remember the stories we learned as children: Judah Maccabee leading an unlikely military victory against the powerful Seleucid Empire, the restoration of the Temple, and the miracle of the oil that laste…
