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Sep 2, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Jessica Russak Hoffman JNS

    Olim on Nefesh B' Nefesh flights arrive job-search ready - The Jewish Star (opens the original)

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    More than 2,300 people are making aliyah on 92 group flights through Nefesh B’Nefesh this summer, including 1,100 singles, 480 families and 250 retirees, ranging from 5 months to 98 years old, with an average age of 29. While Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Modi’in-Maccabim-Reut, Ra’anana and Beit Shemesh are the leading destinations, according to Nefesh, choosing among them — with an eye on job opportunities — can be a challenge. “People say to me when I’m traveling the US, ‘If you find me a job, I’m

  2. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Jessica Russak Hoffman JNS

    What did Rabbi Bashevkin read over Shabbos? - The Jewish Star (opens the original)

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    In 2020, Rabbi David Bashevkin was asked on the “Meaningful People” podcast how many books he had read. His answer? Perhaps 10,000. That, however, didn’t survive his nephew’s math. “There’s no way I have read 10,000 books,” Bashevkin writes in the introduction to his new book, I Read This Over Shabbos: Reading Jewish History in the Parasha, which comes out on Sept. 1. “He’s right. I am just very bad at math.” Bashevkin began posting his weekly reads on Twitter, now X. On Saturday nights, he’d po

  3. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Jessica Russak Hoffman JNS

    Shlock Rock hits Mobile! - The Jewish Star (opens the original)

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    Lenny Solomon of the Jewish music group Shlock Rock stepped off a plane in Mobile, Ala., on Monday to perform in the city for the first time. In 1987, he released the song “Minyan Man,” which is set in the city. “Of all the things left for Shlock Rock to do, this was one of them,” said Solomon, who lives in Israel. “I had played Birmingham, I had played Montgomery, but I had never played Mobile.” The song, which found a cult following at Jewish summer camps in the 1990s, is told from the perspec

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