What do basketball player and coach Larry Brown, swimmers Jason Lezak and Mark Spitz, and gymnast Mitch Gaylord have in common?
They’re among a group of 25 individuals who have won medals in …
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By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org
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8/12/15
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Volunteers ranging from elementary school students to grandparents will hunker down at Yeshiva of South Shore (Yeshiva Toras Chaim) in Hewlett this Sunday morning, Aug. 16, to fill backpacks as part …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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8/12/15
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Thousands of feet up in freefall, travelling over 100 miles an hour, Yosef Goodman had only seconds to make a decision. His parachute had become tangled in his commander’s chute above him, …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/12/15
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“Don’t eat ‘neveilah’ (meat from the carcass of an animal that dies a natural death) – give it to the ‘ger’ who lives in your gates, and he shall eat it. Or …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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8/12/15
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Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views.
Over the years, I have …
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By Sen. Charles Schumer
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8/12/15
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Rep. Eliot L. Engel, who represents Riverdale, is the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs:
Over the last two years, I’ve supported our negotiating team in the P5+1, …
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By Rep. Eliot L. Engel
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8/12/15
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President Obama’s July 31 phone call organized by the anti-Israel group J Street and other progressive Jewish groups could be summed up in one sentence: Please help because, those rich people …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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8/12/15
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As President Obama attempts to convince a skeptical American public and Congress on the Iran nuclear deal, he has presented the agreement as limited to reducing Iran’s capacity to produce a …
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By Sean Savage, JNS.org
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8/12/15
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The Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach welcomes distinguished author, editor, professor and mediator Yossi Klein Halevi this Sunday, Aug. 16, at 7:45 pm.
Halevi will address the topic “Beyond …
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8/12/15
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A reception in the Lawrence home of Michelle and Eli Salig was held in memory of Sharsheret’s founder and executive director, Rochelle Shoretz, who succumbed to complicaitons of breast cancer …
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8/12/15
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