Vice President Joe Biden said Monday night that he felt “overwhelming frustration” with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who, Biden said, was leading Israel "in the wrong …
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4/19/16
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Other than being part of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, Sandy Koufax and Dean Kremer have something else in common: a respect for Jewish tradition.
Koufax — recently ranked by ESPN as …
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By Robert Gluck, JNS.org
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7/28/16
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Two students at Yeshiva Har Torah students in Little Neck — sixth grader Eden Eini and seventh grader, Zachary Kalker — have qualified as National Finalists for the Chidon HaTanach, an …
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4/20/17
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Visit Yad Vashem , Israel’s national Holocaust museum, and wander off to the paths behind the plaza dedicated to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and you will come across an actual cattle car, one of …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/26/17
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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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WASHINGTON — In 1987, Congress passed legislation that declared there would never be an office of the Palestine Liberation Organization on U.S. soil. President Ronald Reagan agreed and signed …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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11/22/17
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West Hempstead teen Estee Ackerman was only 7 when she first picked up a table tennis paddle. She played the game with her older brother Akiva in the basement of her home. Now 16, Estee is competing …
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By Nakeem Grant, Herald Community News
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1/19/18
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1) People have a right to peacefully protest! (Indeed they do. But there are plenty of people here who are taking butcher knives and firebombs and guns to storm the border and kill and kidnap Israeli …
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By Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin
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5/16/18
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In the spirit of v’ahavta l’reiacha kamocha, students at Ivdu Long Island hosted an exciting carnival for the nursery class of Yeshivas Noam Hatorah, located in the same …
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7/4/18
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The mitzvah of dwelling in the sukkah initially appears to be quite straightforward. By way of illustration, the Rambam formulates the obligation in this manner:
“What is the mitzvah of …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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9/21/18
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