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RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Latin America’s largest synagogue, the 2,000-family Congregacao Israelita Paulista in Brazil, has inaugurated its first female rabbi. Some 200 people attended the …
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3/16/17
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My husband Ira and I very much enjoyed our recent trip to Spain. It’s amazing how three religions – Judaism, Islam and Christianity – overlap in this nation. A building may have …
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KAREN ASHER
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1/5/17
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RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Uruguay opened a $20 million video surveillance monitoring center near the tourism capital of Punta del Este with major support from Israeli technology.
Those on …
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1/5/17
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American wins International Adult Bible Contest in Jerusalem
JTA – Yair Shahak of New York City was one of two winners of the International Adult Bible Contest in Jerusalem.
Shahak, …
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1/5/17
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PRAGUE (JTA) – Adolf Burger, a Holocaust survivor who was forced by the Nazis to counterfeit British banknotes during World War II, has died in Prague at 99, his family said.
Burger, a …
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12/23/16
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JTA – World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder praised outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for publicly admitting that there is an anti-Israel bias at the international …
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12/23/16
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JTA — After a highly publicized search, a Jewish man with a deadly cancer has found a bone marrow donor.
On Dec. 6, Adam Krief, a 31-year-old father of three living in Los Angeles, …
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12/9/16
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I was hoping for a significant religious encounter in Uman, the central Ukrainian city that on Rosh Hashanah is inundated by thousands of Jewish men who journey to the tziyun hakadosh (holy grave …
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SHAI AFSAI
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12/9/16
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JTA – The home of a Jewish professor at Oberlin College was vandalized and a note reading “Gas Jew Die” was left at his front door.
The professor has been identified by police …
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11/25/16
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JTA – The Jewish Museum and Chabad-Lubavitch in Berlin have received $2.15 million from a $1.75 billion pot intended for cultural institutions and projects in Berlin, it was announced the week …
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11/25/16
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