This was not a quiet year. From the tumultuous first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency, to a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers, to a neo-Nazi protest in …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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9/19/17
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There are apologies, there are non-apologies and there are apologies that never were.
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are approaching: We are in the season of repentance and its most apt expression, …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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9/19/17
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It’s always difficult to whittle down the list of influential Jews who died in a given year, but this year the task seemed to be especially tough. Here are a few members of the tribe who were …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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9/19/17
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UMAN, UKRAINE — By selling coffee to Jewish tourists, 18-year-old Yuri Breskov can earn in a week more than his teachers from high school make annually in this provincial city.
His revenues …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, UJA
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9/19/17
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Around the picnic tables at Whitefish City Beach on the final Shabbat eve of August, the Montana town’s tiny Jewish community shared kosher hot dogs, veggie burgers and memories of …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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9/19/17
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A high-tech teaching and research center born of a collaboration between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has inaugurated its newly built campus on Roosevelt …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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9/19/17
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In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, British and Israeli senior officials convened in Jerusalem this week to discuss the past, present, and future …
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By Eliana Rudee, JNS.org
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9/19/17
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may not be ready to proclaim himself a baal t’shuvah, but he took — if you’ll excuse the pun — baby steps in that direction this week.
The …
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The Jewish Star and JTA
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9/19/17
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For Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s political opponents, his government’s woes aren’t just an opportunity to score political points at his expense. They also provide …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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9/19/17
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Should American Jewish leaders speak to the rulers of a petrostate that finances Hamas terrorists to blow up their fellow Jews in Israel?
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis (left) meets with …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/19/17
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