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Is there a way to prevent someone from becoming involved?

An effective program of prevention has five components: Affiliate: become part of the Jewish community, by taking classes, joining a synagogue or attending events at the Jewish Community Center. Take advantage of the resources in your community and strengthen your bond with your past and your people; Jewish education and lifestyle experiences: one who knows his/her faith in a dynamic and living way will rarely be attracted to the cheap substitute offered by the missionaries; Open communication:

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 1 min read

The Spirituality of Giving: Kicking Giving Up a Notch

Over the past ten years, our community’s focus on continuity has led to a growing interest in Jewish spirituality. This has not been limited to a desire for more intensity and passion in synagogue services, but a quest for the transcendent in all areas of life. Could there be more to giving and community involvement than the emergence of our “inner mentsch”? In a famous biblical story, the Almighty’s presence came to comfort and visit with Abraham after his circumcision. Spying some desert trav

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 1 min read

Sheina's Story: An Academic Search for the Truth

My story begins on the other side of the world in Australia where I was born. Both sides of my family immigrated there in the mid to late 1800s. My childhood was spent in a Christian home. I did not know that I had a Jewish heritage until I was around age 13, at which time my mother told me of her family background and that she was Jewish. (She had embraced Christianity when she married my father.) For years it didn't impact my life greatly because I had no real understanding of what it meant to

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 4 min read

Baptists Declare Open Season on Jews

On June 13, 1996, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution which called for the Baptists to direct their "energies and resources toward the proclamation of the gospel to the Jewish people." In essence, this puts the force and power of the largest fundamentalist Christian denomination with over 37,000 churches and 15 million members in the U.S.- squarely on the side of bringing Jews to Christianity. But haven't Christians wanted to make Jews into Christians for almost 2,000 years? Why

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 3 min read

Tisha B’Av – Mourning the Destruction

The ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av begins tonight (Wednesday, July 29) at sunset. This day marks the anniversary of the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, in 423 BCE and 69 CE by the Babylonians and the Romans respectively. (There are a couple of ways to figure the count, so you may sometimes see slightly different dates given.) Throughout Jewish history, many other calamities of note happened or began on this same day. It is observed as a day of fasting and mou

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 1 min read