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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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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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JTA – A documentary about the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor won an Oscar one week after she died.
Alice Herz-Sommer, who died in London on Feb. 23 at the age of 110, was the subject of “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” …
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3/13/14
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In 2002, the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass., opened a new exhibit, Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business, that celebrated the accomplishments of female entrepreneurs.
Inspired by this exhibit, Gail Reimer, …
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Toby Rossner
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3/13/14
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No, it isn’t nearly as rare as “Thanksgivukkah,” the once-in-75,000-years overlap of the first day of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving Day that took the Jewish world by storm in 2013. But this year’s 13-month Hebrew calendar isn’t an annual …
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Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org
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3/13/14
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JTA – An accused Nazi war criminal is unfit to stand trial, a German court ruled.
Hans Lipschis, 94, who allegedly was an SS guard at Auschwitz, suffers from dementia and will not understand what transpires at his trial, the court in Ellwangen …
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3/13/14
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On March 5, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of H.R. 938, the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014. The legislation, authored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen …
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3/13/14
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Bill Richardson, the former U.N. ambassador known for his efforts to release American captives overseas, called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard immediately.
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12/19/13
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