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Hate crimes up against Jews in California
The California Attorney General's office says that more gay and Jewish people were the victims of hate crimes last year even though the overall number of bias-related ...
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Associated Press (07:43 , 11.16.09 )
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US Jews turn to Israel to escape bleak job market
Jewish American math teacher Goldie Burdetsky never expected to find herself working the front desk of a hotel in southern Israel alongside management interns young ...
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Reuters (17:49 , 11.15.09 )
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Rabbi Elyashiv to authorize Shabbat elevators
The haredi grand adjudicator Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv is expected to issue a modified halachic ruling on the issue of Shabbat elevators that will allow their use for ...
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Kobi Nahshoni (08:21 , 11.15.09 )
Nazi's grandson tries to sell items to Yad Vashem
The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem recently received an unusual, and angering, appeal: The grandson of Rudolf Höss, the infamous commander of the Auschwitz ...
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Eldad Beck (08:08 , 11.14.09 )
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Jewish Peoplehood Hub launched
The NADAV Fund, in partnership with UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Agency for Israel, launched the Jewish Peoplehood Hub (JPH) at the 2009 General Assembly of ...
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Ynetnews (13:23 , 11.13.09 )
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Shoah survivors slam Lebanese ban of Anne Frank's dairy
The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants recently slammed Hezbollah for censoring Anne Frank’s diary out of a school textbook. According ...
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Ynetnews (07:30 , 11.13.09 )
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Haredim launch 'Shabbat war' against Intel
Another front opens in the fight for Shabbat. Leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis are calling on the public to participate in a mass rally to be held on Saturday in the Har ...
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Kobi Nahshoni (14:56 , 11.12.09 )
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Bible stolen by Nazis sent to Vienna
A 16th century Hebrew Bible looted by the Nazis has been returned to Vienna's Jewish community. The Bible was turned over by US officials during a New York City ...
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Associated Press (07:41 , 11.12.09 )
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Kosher comics prove hit with Israel's haredi Jews
A far cry from the thrills of Spiderman and the sexy glam of Lois Lane, chaste and religious comics have become a hit among ultra-Orthodox Jews determined not to pollute ...
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AFP (17:21 , 11.11.09 )
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Chabad rabbi decorated by Queen of England
Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, director of the Chabad Lubavitch center in Ilford, Essex, was among the receivers of the Member of British Empire award (MBE) two weeks ago. The ...
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Nissan Shtrauchler (08:20 , 11.11.09 )
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School entrance locked 'for modesty reasons'
Teachers and students of the Rabin High School in the southern city of Kiryat Gat are being forced to enter the building through a side gate "for modesty reasons". ...
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Ruth Margolin (17:30 , 11.10.09 )
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General strike expected in religious schools
The Religious Education Forum announced Monday that all educational institutions belonging to Religious Zionism– including yeshivot, religious girls' high schools and ...
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Kobi Nahshoni (08:33 , 11.10.09 )
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Merits of strategic spending
After having worked in the Jewish community for a number of years, I continue to question our strategic planning. More than 60 years later, I wonder how it is that the ...
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Elran Tsabag (16:28 , 11.09.09 )
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Rabbi Yosef condemns Women of the Wall
Some 20 years after they first wrapped themselves in prayer shawls at Judaism's holiest site, the Women of the Wall (WOW) were the subject of much criticism during the ...
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Kobi Nahshoni (08:06 , 11.09.09 )
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Jewish-Muslim relations
I have just returned from a week in Jerusalem and yet again tensions are high surrounding the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, and this yet again threatens relations between ...
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Dan Rickman (16:22 , 11.08.09 )
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