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| Refugees: American Jewish Communities Helping Ukrainians and Afghans Who’ve Made It to the United States

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckNovember 27, 2022

The Biden administration has announced the U.S. will accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees…

JFR: Helping Ukrainians Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust to Survive the Russian Onslaught

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckAugust 28, 2022

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year, an American Jewish group…

Amy Weiss: Rabbi Who Founded the Nonprofit ‘Undies for Everyone’ Is Named a CNN Hero

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckJune 19, 2022

Weiss started Undies for Everyone (UFE) in 2008 when a social worker expressed to her the need that disadvantaged youth had for underwear…

Avi Schiffmann and Marco Burstein: Two Harvard Students Create Website to Help House Ukrainian Refugees

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckApril 25, 2022

The site launched on March 3, 2020; within a week, more than 4,000 people had posted listings offering shelter to Ukrainian refugees.

Climate Change: Canadian JNF Launches Annual $1 Million Prize for Innovative Israeli Solutions

TIKKUN OLAM, UncategorizedBy Lenny GiteckJanuary 31, 2022

Since an estimated 326,000 Jews live in the country, that amount is quite impressive.

Canadian Jews: The World’s Fourth Largest Jewish Community Is Working to Help Solve the Climate Crisis

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckOctober 6, 2021

Candian Jews are increasingly turning their attention and activism to environmental issues.

Freedom Farm Sanctuary: Rescuing and Rehabilitating Abused, Neglected, Disabled Farm Animals

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckJune 30, 2021

The facility is the brainchild and passion of two Israeli businesswomen: Adit Romano and Meital Ben Ari…

India COVID Crisis: Israel Joins Other Counties in Providing Desperately Needed Emergency Aid

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckMay 5, 2021

Israeli NGO IsraAID and Israel-based NGO SmartAid have begun sending planeloads of…

New York Bar Mitzvah Boy’s Website Helps Thousands of Seniors to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Shots

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckMarch 20, 2021

A Bar Mitzvah boy from Scarsdale, N.Y., has built a website that, as of this writing, has enabled nearly 3,000 New York seniors to get appointments for COVD-19 vaccine shots. Twelve-year-old Sam Keusch created VaccineHelper.com as his Bar Mitzvah project. Sam originally thought of making a financial donation but realized the website he envisioned would…

Rabbi Dr. Arthur Waskow: Fighting for Human Rights, Social Justice, the Environment, and More for Five Decades

TIKKUN OLAMBy Lenny GiteckFebruary 4, 2021

Rabbi Dr. Arthur Waskow (87 or 88) has been arrested more than 25 times while participating in nonviolent demonstrations on behalf of a range of social causes. He is the founder and director of The Shalom Center, which “equips activists and spiritual leaders with awareness and skills needed to lead in shaping a transformed and…

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FUN QUIZ ANSWERS

 

  1. 1. How many “Principles of Faith” did the great 12th century philosopher and scholar Maimonides postulate?
    d. 13
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  3. 2. Judaism is not just a religion. It is a culture, a political force, and even an ethnic group.
    a. True
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  5. 3. How many times a day do observant Jews pray?
    a. Three
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  7. 4. The Jewish prayer shawl (tallit), worn during prayer services, has knotted fringes or tassels at each corner of the shawl. What are they called?
    c. Tzitzit
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  9. 5. In contrast to Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism holds that while both written teaching and oral traditions have a divine origin, how they’re interpreted is up to the rabbis and may reflect modern circumstances.
    a. True
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  11. 6. What percentage of Jews live outside Israel and the United States?
    c. 24%
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NAME THAT JEW! ANSWER

 

Irving Berlin

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WOW! FACTS

Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?

We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!

To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
 

Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google

Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia

Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed

Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed

Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed

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