CASALE MONFERRATO, Italy — It’s always Chanukah in this picturesque town in northern Italy’s Piedmont region, where Jews have lived for more than 500 years, reaching a peak of 850 …
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By Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTA
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11/22/17
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With the Thanksgiving holiday now upon us I would like to bring to your attention a wonderful and most informative literary work entitled, “Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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11/22/17
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SECAUCUS — More than 4,000 food industry professionals gathered here at the Meadowlands Exposition Center last week for the annual two-day Kosherfest.
The world’s largest kosher food …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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11/22/17
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These students at the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys were eager to host the more than 200 prospective students and their parents who attended an open house on the Woodmere campus.
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11/16/17
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Prospective students participated in a joyful open house at Midreshet Shalhevet, viewing “a school that is warm, nurturing, and inspires individual growth, encouraging girls to pursue any …
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11/16/17
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Shulamith seventh graders visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, lighting candles in memory of those who suffered on that fateful night in 1938.The girls viewed …
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11/16/17
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The emphasis on was on leadership, at Rambam Mesivta’s Parshas Lech Lecha Shabbaton at Camp Seneca Lake. A meaningful Havdalah was followed by a flagfootball tournament and a homerun derby …
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11/16/17
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We were heartened to learn that a Philadelphia synagogue is offering an adult education course about anti-Semitism, a timeless scourge that every generation must combat. But why is the course …
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Commentary by Steve Feldman, Lee Bender and Kevin Ross
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11/15/17
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The German financial services giant Deutsche Bank has ranked the Israeli shekel as the world’s second-strongest currency, bolstering the broader outlook on the Jewish state’s …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS
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11/15/17
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The sight of far-right activists waving racist banners and shouting anti-Semitic slogans during a nationalist march in the capital of Poland over the weekend shocked many around the world.
It was …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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11/15/17
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