President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening nominated to the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch, 49, a federal Appeals Court judge known to favor protections of religious belief in the public square and for …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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2/1/17
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Birthright trips — the 10-day Israel tours offered free to young Jews — are so much part of mainstream culture that they have been copied by other religions, parodied …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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1/25/17
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The Dime branch at 432 Central Ave. in Cedarhurst has teamed up with Gift It Forward, a non-profit inside ELZEE at 404 Central Ave. that collects unused gifts and donates them to charities. The bank …
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1/25/17
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Two days into my first Taglit-Birthright Israel trip, during which I led a group of 40 Americans around Israel, I heard the news of the Obama administration’s unprecedented refusal to veto a …
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By Eliana Rudee
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1/19/17
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Rabbi Anchelle Perl, like many of his fellow Chabad shaliachs, knows a thing of two about attracting attention to a good cause (think Chanukah menorahs in public spaces).
The cause on Rabbi …
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The Jewish Star
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1/18/17
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The Orthodox Union facilitated an energized discussion of “Torah in the City” on Sunday, drawing close to 1,500 men and women from throughout the tri-state area to Citi Field in Flushing …
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1/18/17
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On Sunday, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, at its 118th Anniversary convention at Citi Field, adopted Resolutions expressing positions on a range of …
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From The Orthodox Union
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1/18/17
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WASHINGTON — Reps. Ed Royce and Eliot Engel are that Capitol Hill rarity: a Republican and a Democrat who truly have each other’s back.
And nothing unites Royce, R-Calif., chairman of …
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Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA
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1/11/17
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It was particularly painful and frustrating seeing President Barack Hussein Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power team up on an anti-Semitic knifing …
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Commentary by Morton A. Klein, President, Zionist Organization of America
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12/29/16
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Just two hours before Shabbos, President Obama made official his administrator’s betrayal of the Jewish state, thrusting a pale of uninvited gloom over Shabbos and the start of Chanukah by …
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By Ed Weintrob
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12/29/16
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