Gabe Kapler’s firing by Phillies the latest blow for Jewish baseball players and managers at start of new year
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The German synagogue shooter was a far-right extremist. Here’s why that’s rare in Europe.
(JTA) – The identity of the German synagogue attacker may have sounded familiar to American Jews, who have endured multiple attacks by far-right extremists over the past year. But the suspect’s identity was more surprising for Jews in Western Europe. The murder of two people in Halle on Yom Kippur was the first lethal anti-Semitic […]
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Like babka? You’ll love this recipe for chocolate kokosh cake.
This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher. If babka is the hip Jewish treat du jour, then kokosh cake is its slightly homelier cousin of yesteryear. But don’t let that description turn you off because what kokosh cake lacks in razzle-dazzle, it makes up for in the most important of ways: rich, gooey, seemingly endless […]
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4 Jewish writers on the power of women’s anger in ‘Burn It Down’
This story originally appeared on Alma. At the start of “Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger,” the editor, Jewish writer Lilly Dancyger, writes that she wanted this book to “be a place where our anger could live, a place for us to take up space after generations of being told to shrink, to rage […]
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Parshas Ha’azinu
Photo Credit: Jewish Press Vol. LXIX No. 41 5780 New York CityCANDLE LIGHTING TIMEOctober 11, 2019 – 12 Tishrei 57806:04 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Sabbath Ends: 7:02 p.m. NYC E.D.T.Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 7:33 p.m. NYC E.D.T.Weekly Reading: Ha’azinuWeekly Haftara: […]
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Gentile’s Guide To Sukkot: A Dangerous Jewish Holiday
Photo Credit: courtesy {Originally posted to The Lid website} Today Sunday 9/23 at sundown, Jews across the world begin the celebration of Sukkot. Sukkot is one of the three most important Jewish festivals (the other two are Passover and Shavuot). I know what some of you are thinking, and the answer is no, Chanukah is […]
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Citing 1973 War, Netanyahu Stresses Importance of Preemptive Strike
Photo Credit: IDF Evacuated Casualties of the Yom Kippur War Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, at the state memorial ceremony for the fallen of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, cited the main lesson from that war, when the Israeli government and the IDF ignored information about an imminent Arab attack, resulting […]
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