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High Holiday Schedules 5771
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Here comes the Blessing of the Sun

David Kalb

NEW YORK (JTA) -- I have this internal iPod in my head that provides theme music for my life. Lately my theme song is “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles. Not only is it my theme song, but this year it is the theme song of the entire Jewish people.

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The Jewish Federations support JDC's Ariel Job Centers in Riga, Latvia and Tallinn, Estonia, which battle rising unemployment and poverty among Jews in the Baltics. The centers, based on a pioneering model that continues to help Argentina’s Jews recover in the wake of that country’s economic crisis, provide classes and training on job hunting, interviewing, resume-building and computer skills. Click here for details. 

A Novel Way to Teach Torah

by Jerome M. Segal

Judaism is the world’s oldest and strangest book club. Essentially we Jews have one book, and when we finish reading it, we turn back to the beginning and read it again, and again and again. We do this throughout our book club’s thousands and thousands of chapters, and we’ve been doing so for over 2,000 years.
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Mekor Chaim: Source of Life

Devarim by Rabbi Beryl Padorr

In recent days, we have seen many disappointments, situations where people could see their dreams almost come to fruition, and then were not realized:  The Boston Celtics almost becoming the National Basketball champions; some of the top seated tennis players at Wimbledon were out early; the U S Soccer team, after coming up with last minute winning goals, finally out of the World Cup; and Abby Sunderland from Thousand Oaks, California who started off with the intentions of becoming the youngest to sail solo around the world, but who did not make it because her mast broke in a storm.

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The Santa Barbara Jewish Community Foundation is proud to announce an expansion of our grant making opportunites, consolidating our funds under the umbrella of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles. read more
Linda & Michael Keston
Keston Family Youth Program
Funds Portraits of Survival and Camp/Overseas Experiences for Santa Barbara County Youth
Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara (JFGSB) is delighted to announce the 5-year continuation of the Keston Family Youth Program. more
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Parashat Ha'Azinu

Let us begin our study of this sidra with Nahmanides' summary of the contents and significance of the Song that Moses taught the people:

This song constituting for us a true and faithful witness, plainly tells us all that will befall us, opening first by describing the kindness God bestowed on us since He chose us for His people, followed by a record of His bounty towards us in the wilderness, and how He disinherited mighty nations for us. Indeed, from an overabundance of good things, our rebellion against God is foretold -- how we would descend to worshipping idols. Then it is recorded ...more

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Jewish Word Glossary

From Abba to Zohar, we have a list of words and phrases of both Hebrew and Yiddish origin, covering the range of the Jewish experience, from annual and lifetime events to ritual objects and Jewish cuisine. more

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