Renting a house in the Italian countryside and eating loads of pasta is about as blissful a vacation as they come. For the three Anati brothers — who did just that in 2013 — such a trip …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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7/26/17
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Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal, author of Eim Habanim Semeichah, described a Kol Nidrei during the Holocaust, Yom Kippur 1942. He was in Hungary, from which mass deportations wouldn’t …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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9/30/17
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It is often difficult to take time to relax and enjoy a day with family and friends. Even when we have a big family dinner, I often hear friends complain that by the time they get to sit down, the …
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By Joni Schockett
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11/22/17
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As part of a two-hour rant on Sunday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared that the Oslo Accords signed with Israel almost 25 years ago were now dead. That was a false statement because those …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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1/19/18
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The quirky Jewish physicist would have been proud.
A violin once owned by Albert Einstein sold for $516,500 at the New York-based Bonhams auction house on Friday.
The instrument, which …
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JTA
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3/14/18
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Agudath Israel of America
Today, with the opening of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, we witnessed a promise kept. This historic event was a reflection of the will of the American people, …
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5/16/18
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A decade ago, the publisher of the Jewish Daily Forward asked his board to believe in miracles.
“We are supposed to believe in miracles; we are forbidden to rely on them, ” Sam Norich …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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1/22/19
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The announcement from J Street that it plans to sponsor a free trip this summer for college-age students, to compete with the popular Birthright Israel program, provoked predictable outrage. Many …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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3/20/19
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My trip to canvass the mood of French Jews began in Israeli-owned restaurant Balagan, near the Louvre. Emmanuelle Mary, a non-Jewish Parisian marketing professional, took me there.
The bar had a …
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By Orit Arfa, JNS
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5/10/19
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It started out as a normal Monday morning. I came down to the kitchen, made myself a cup of coffee and began to read the newspaper. Just then, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed my …
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By Judy Joszef
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5/15/19
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