JTA – The Chabad-affiliated Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia is opening what it is calling Russia’s first Jewish university.
Modeled after Yeshiva University in …
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3/15/18
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JTA – The quirky Jewish physicist would have been proud.
A violin once owned by Albert Einstein recently sold for $516,500 at the New York-based Bonhams auction house.
The …
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3/14/18
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JTA – Seven survivors of the Parkland school shooting were among thousands of Jewish high school students who attended the annual conference of the Chabad movement’s youth …
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Ben Sales
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3/1/18
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KEY WEST, FLA. - What, you’re surprised there is Jewish life here?
This is the southernmost point in the continental U.S., a city of 27,000, with an artsy-craftsy live-and-let-live vibe. …
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M. CHARLES BAKST
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3/1/18
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MUTTONTOWN, N.Y. (JTA) – Lester Wolff served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, which is slightly above average for lawmakers. But he has a distinction few of his colleagues …
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Ben Sales
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2/15/18
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – When Mike Pence moved to Washington earlier this year, he and his wife took with them a framed phrase they had for years hung over the fireplace in their Indiana home, and …
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Ron Kampeas
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2/15/18
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JTA – Israel and Iran have been clashing for years. But on Feb. 10, their war of words briefly became an actual fight.
In short succession, Iran sent a drone into Israel, Israel shot it …
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Ben Sales
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2/15/18
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NEW YORK (JTA) – When Rabbi Angela Buchdahl announced how her synagogue would respond to the #MeToo moment, she singled out a man. But he wasn’t one of her congregants, synagogue clergy …
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BEN SALES
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2/3/18
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, a leader of Reform Judaism who founded and guided the Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles from modest beginnings to become one of the world’s …
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TOM TUGEND
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2/3/18
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