(JTA) — Jesse Wilks had a bar mitzvah — just not a religious one. His parents raised him in a secular home in New York City but still instilled him with a strong sense of Jewish identity. His mother — who worked for the Workers Circle and is now on the editorial board of the left-wing […]
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Nets star Kyrie Irving says he’s more focused on the Israel-Gaza conflict than basketball right now – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(JTA) — Rabbi Stephen Slater’s rabbinate breaks the mold in all sorts of ways. Though he graduated from the unaffiliated Hebrew College Rabbinical School, he identifies with the Conservative movement and is the only one of the suburban Boston school’s graduates to join the movement’s rabbinic group. Though Slater came to the rabbinate as the […]
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Rihanna posted a message of solidarity for both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict. It drew plenty of praise – and anger. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(JTA) — Years ago, Jodi Bromberg met a woman at a Jewish event who said she had to call 65 rabbis before she found one who would officiate at her wedding to her non-Jewish husband. It was a story Bromberg understood. Bromberg’s wife is Catholic, and earlier in their marriage “it was a struggle,” she […]
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[embedded content] Two Israeli women, both veterans of the IDF who were visiting in New York last week, got a real “close up” sample of Brooklyn subway crime when they were robbed and beaten by some of the night life of the city after getting off the train and walking up the stairs of the […]
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Photo Credit: courtesy Sheba Medical Center Israel Center for Disaster Medicine & Humanitarian Response team (Sheba Medical Center) at Ben-Gurion Airport prior to departure for Samoa A team of medical experts from Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer flew to Samoa on Sunday following an urgent request from the World Health Organization (WHO), as the […]
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Photo Credit: screenshot {Originally posted to the author’s blog, The Lid} Seventy-two years ago the United Nations passed Resolution 181 which called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state (back then Jews living in the Holy Land were called Palestinians). It was approved on November 29, 1947, with […]
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Photo Credit: IDF IDF soldiers on routine patrol near Hebron. IDF fighters neutralized a Palestinian Authority terrorist cell on Saturday night as he was attacking an Israeli motorist traveling in Judea near the village of Beit Awwa. “During an operational activity of IDF fighters to thwart terrorist attacks near Beit Awa village in the Judea […]
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Photo Credit: Karimobo / Wikimedia Commons Casablanca, Morocco One Israeli is dead and two others were injured after they were hit by a bus at around 3:30 pm Friday in Casablanca. The victim, a student of the Shuva Yisrael Yeshiva, was crushed to death between two buses, according to reports by the Hebrew-language Ynet site […]
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