The Israel organization StandWithUs and the National Information Directorate of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office are partnering in a “Social Media Ambassadors” program to …
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1/22/15
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Young Israel of New Hyde Park has opened a beautiful Memories Gemach.
The Gemach was created as a labor of love by Dr. Beth and Mark Krieger, in memory of family members Dottie & Sidney …
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By Mary Redler
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1/22/15
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One might think cartoonists, as champions of irreverence and untrammeled free speech, would be unanimously resolute in defending their martyred comrades at the French satirical magazine Charlie …
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By Rafael Medoff
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1/22/15
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The European Union has announced it is partnering on counter-terrorism projects with Middle East countries — including Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, and the Gulf states — in the wake …
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By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org
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1/22/15
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JERUSALEM — Explosive confrontations are nothing new for Israel and Lebanon, but the latest spat between the longtime foes is perhaps the first to have been caused by an alleged …
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1/22/15
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Temimah Zucker, 24, is a modest young woman with an equally modest frame. But her smile, vitality, and drive fill a room. Her message and mission — that eating disorders are an expanding …
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By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org
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1/22/15
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There are many accounts in the midrash about the purpose of the plagues. While the overwhelming approach is that the plagues were meant to be “measure for measure punishment against the …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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1/22/15
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The sport of rapelling (or sneppling, as it is known in Israel), is the art of descending from a cliff by sliding down a rope which is sunken into the mountain above with stakes.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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1/22/15
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A Cedarhurst man angry about being evicted from an apartment building at 97 Cedarhurst Ave., lit eight separate fires in his apartment, 3H, which resulted in a blaze that “fully …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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1/22/15
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A week after they criticized plans for an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal at a meeting in Queens, officials gathered on the Long Beach boardwalk on Jan. 15 to call on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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1/22/15
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