The reports keep coming, and from different sources; Hezbollah is gearing up for war against the State of Israel.
In a report released by the Begin Center for Strategic Studies in January, former …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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6/4/15
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The Merrick-Bellmore community celebrated the pouring of the bor (pool) for its new mikvah on Tuesday morning, with local rabbis joining community members at the mikvah site, 2174 Hewlett Ave. in …
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The Jewish Star Staff
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6/4/15
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Long soldiers who come from the Five Towns, surrounding communities, the U.S. and other countries to serve in the Israel Defense Forces were honored by more than 600 people at the Friends of Israel …
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By Vanessa Parker
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6/4/15
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Thursday May 28
LUNCH & LEARN with Rabbi Shalom Axelrod of YI Woodmere. Traditions Restaurant, 302 Central Ave, Lawrence. 12:30 to 1:30 pm. $12 lunch. 516-398-3094.
Saturday May 30
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Compiled by Leah Klahr and Sara Weintrob
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5/28/15
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HOMESTEAD, Pa. — Homestead’s Jewish history is absent from the town’s dominant industrial narrative. For a young woman hoping to uncover it, 16 boxes of records at the Heinz History …
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By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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5/28/15
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After Sunday’s Celebrate Israel Parade along Fifth Avenue, many celebrants will head into Central Park for the 22nd annual Israel Day Concert. Pictured at last year’s event (front row …
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The Jewish Star Staff
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5/28/15
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The very last verse in our parsha comes after the concluding and summarizing statement of the sacrifices of the princes. And it seems totally out of place.
“When Moses came into the Ohel …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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5/28/15
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There is a story about the Gadol Hador (one of the great rabbis of our generation,) Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zatza”l, Rosh Yeshiva of Her Etzion, who passed away last month.
Rav Aharon came …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/28/15
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The cemetery in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul neighborhood was bathed in the fading sunlight of a late May afternoon. Silently and steadily, the column of mourners wound their way towards an open …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/28/15
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Reports coming out of Ramadi, Iraq and Palmyra, Syria convey hundreds of dead and burned bodies littering streets and thousands of people displaced and on the run. Loss after loss, setback after …
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By Susan Stamper Brown
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5/28/15
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