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JTA – News that Spain is proposing to offer citizenship to the descendants of Jews expelled in the 15th and 16th centuries spread like wildfire in Israel.
Within hours of the Spanish government’s announcement last month, the Israeli website …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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3/27/14
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JERUSALEM – Tel Aviv will permit a limited number of grocery and convenience stores to open on the Sabbath and holidays.
The City Council approved an amendment giving the stores the go-ahead, but the country’s Interior Ministry also …
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3/27/14
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JTA – A publisher from Berlin is preparing to launch the first German-language children’s edition of the Torah since 1964.
The first volume of “Tell your Children-The Torah in Five Volumes” is scheduled to be offered for sale next …
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3/27/14
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JTA – A bill celebrating immigration to Israel, or aliyah, was submitted to the Knesset.
Yom HaAliyah, or Aliyah Day, would be marked on the 10th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, five days before Passover.
The national holiday would …
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3/27/14
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JTA – Employees of the Foreign Ministry in Israel declared a general strike, shutting down the country’s 103 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions around the world.
The strike, which is open ended, was called on Sunday, March 23 …
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3/27/14
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The URI Providence Campus Arts and Culture Program will offer the production of “Trust in the Journey: Becoming Family – Marie, Jeannette and Ruth” by Frank V. Toti, Jr. from April 7-11. The play was written from original oral history …
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3/27/14
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JTA – Former President Jimmy Carter said his group of former i nternational leaders would not endorse a boycott of Israel but encouraged nations to make clear which Israeli products originated in West Bank settlements.
“We decided not to …
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3/27/14
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Six words.
Choose them carefully because that’s all you have to tell your life story.
Should be easy, right? Anyone can complete a story that’s only six words long.
But can it encapsulate an entire life? Can it fully relate the …
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Jennifer Butler Basile
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3/27/14
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With Passover – the holiday of remembering – approaching, the Voice thought it’d be interesting to chat with someone about the first Seder experience and the holiday in general. Who better to ask than an adult who remembers her first Passover …
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Irina Missiuro
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3/27/14
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Our family can definitely be called “the People of the Book,” especially when that book is the haggadah. Over the decades, from the earliest Providence Katz family seders at the home of my grandparents, Mollie and Harry Katz, with its eleven …
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Ruth Page
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3/27/14
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