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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Thousands of Israelis turned out to see the American Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu perform in Jerusalem.
“Jerusalem, I’m home,” Matisyahu said during his concert Oct. 10 at Sultan’s Pool, outside the Old City. …
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10/15/15
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JTA – Whether you love them or hate them – or your feelings are purely pareve — these 13 Jews repeatedly made the news in 5775.
David Blatt
American-Israeli coach David Blatt, in his first season as the Cleveland …
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Julie Wiener
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9/17/15
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JTA – The Jewish community of Lithuania fired the country’s chief rabbi amid his objections to the government’s plan to build on an area that used to be a Jewish cemetery
The dismissal of Rabbi Chaim Burshtein, an Israeli who has served as …
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8/21/15
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JTA — The newly established Reform Jewish community of Shanghai, China, will receive its first Torah scroll from a sister congregation in Brazil.
The donation of the scroll by ARI, Rio de Janeiro’s Progressive congregation, to the Kehilat …
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5/22/15
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PRAGUE (JTA) – The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Czech Republic rose by more than 200 percent last year, according to an annual report on anti-Semitism.
Prague’s Jewish community released the report May 4.
In 2014, 46 such …
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5/7/15
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TEL AVIV (JTA) – A man was trampled. A raucous protest broke out, restrained only by police. The Western Wall’s mechitza – a partition between men and women considered sacrosanct – was breached by those who ostensibly care …
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Ben Sales
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5/7/15
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JTA – Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, fell on April 23. In honor of the Jewish state’s 67th birthday, we present, in no particular order, 10 little-known aspects of its history.
1. El Al used to fly to Tehran.
Iran …
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URIEL HEILMAN
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4/23/15
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JNS.org – Pope Francis met with a delegation of leading European rabbis at the Vatican April 20 to discuss Jewish-Christian relations and the ongoing surge of European anti-Semitism.
The delegation was from the Conference of European Rabbis, …
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4/23/15
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JTA – Three foundations have partnered for an initiative to promote global Jewish volunteering and service.
The launch of OLAM was announced March 24. The Alliance for Global Good, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the …
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3/26/15
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JTA – Instituting measures to deal with hate crimes on social media and a government fund to protect synagogues are among 35 recommendations offered by a British parliamentary inquiry into rising anti-Semitism.
Britain must take immediate …
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2/13/15
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