Sometime between the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 17, and the following Monday morning, vandals damaged 170 gravestones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Jewish cemetery outside St. Louis.
Beyond that, …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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3/1/17
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Seven residents of the Gurwin Jewish Fay J. Lindner Residence in Commack participated in the recent #WeRemember global social media campaign on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the liberation …
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3/1/17
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Who wants to be sick at a simcha? Carsickness and seasickness can certainly dampen one’s enthusiasm for doing anything and being anywhere. Children driven longer distances can arrive in an …
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By Gary Rabenko
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3/1/17
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Yesterday on our way to sheva brachot, for Jerry’s cousin in Queens, I, as usual, was elected to enter the address into the GPS. As most of you know by now, Jerry is not very tech …
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By Judy Joszef
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3/1/17
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TEL AVIV — Every week, thousands of women across Israel gather to play a sport almost no one outside the country has heard of.
For that matter, few Israelis knew about catchball — or …
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By Andrew Tobin, JTA
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3/1/17
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, speaking with affection of his life in Israel decades ago, told a rapturous J Street conference that one could sharply criticize the Israeli government’s …
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By JTA
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3/1/17
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No Objection Your Honor! The Rambam Mesivta Mock Trial Team agrees to advance to the Intermediate Round of the New York State Mock Trial Competition.
Sponsored by the Nassau County Bar …
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3/1/17
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The Young Israel of Woodmere will host “Antique Jewish Ritual Objects From 1700 to Modern Times,” featuring the noted antiques specialist Jonathan Greenstein, author of “A Lost Art: …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/1/17
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Three alumni of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration — Rabbi …
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3/1/17
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The controversy over Israel’s security checkpoints is heating up in the wake of a new investigative report showing that the perceived hardships endured by many Palestinian travelers are much …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
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3/1/17
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