When Zubin Mehta kicks off a tour of North American cities at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night, it won’t be his last performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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11/1/17
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Stickers showing a doctored photo of Anne Frank wearing a German soccer team’s jersey appeared in Dusseldorf, Germany, a week after a similar incident in Rome.
Fans of the Borussia Dortmund …
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JTA
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11/1/17
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My dad told me that every Friday my grandmother cooked two meals in tandem — Shabbat chicken, or brisket, or “gadempte fleische,” on one side of her tiny counter and, in her big, …
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By Joni Schockett
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11/1/17
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This cheesecake recipe was inspired by new and old flavors and our love of baklava and cheesecake. After all, who doesn’t love these desserts?
We felt that the smoothness and …
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By Tracey Fine and Georgia Tarn, Nosher via JTA
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11/1/17
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Are Jewish millennials the most religious generation?
And do one-fifth of them think Jesus was a deity in human form?
Yes and yes, says a new survey of 599 Jews born from 1984 to 1999.
The …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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11/1/17
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The former leader of a nationalist political party in Britain with close ties to President Donald Trump said that American Jews have a disproportionate influence over politics.
Nigel Farage, the …
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JTA
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11/1/17
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On a recent Friday, Eitan Press stood in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market offering to apply balm to the beards of passers-by.
Press was hoping they would get hooked on his product, an …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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11/1/17
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G o to a Yemenite Jewish wedding or Bar Mitzvah and you will hear the women shouting the yelilot traditionally “sung” at all celebrations. I still recall when being called to the Torah …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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11/1/17
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I am currently teaching a weekly parsha class using the commentary of Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenberg, Ha’ktav V’hakabbalah. As it doesn’t appear in a class Chumash, it is less …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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11/1/17
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The name and history of the Aish Kodesh in our community is well known. This legacy from the tragedy of the Warsaw Ghetto of one of its towering leaders, Rebbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira, the Aish …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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11/1/17
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