Argentina’s vice president rails against AMIA trial on anniversary of the Jewish center bombing – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(JTA) — Kosher supermarkets are rethinking their inventory. Politicians are emptying their freezers. And the foreign minister of Israel is vowing to get involved in local US politics. The reactions were all part of the firestorm that quirky ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s set off Monday morning with its announcement that it would no […]
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(JTA) — When Nazi tanks surrounded Warsaw, my father related in a rare moment of frustration, the Jews were in shul arguing over who should get “shishi” (the honor of being called up third to the Torah). It was a story I thought about often on Sunday, on Tisha b’Av. The day marks the destruction of […]
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In the Gemara today, we are deep into a discussion of appropriate s’chach (roofing material) for the sukkah. We learned in a mishnah that bundled materials are inappropriate, as the branches should be loose and scattered (though the Gemara accepts “naturally” bundled material, so you don’t have to physically rip palm branches apart). Plants that smell bad or that are […]
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Dov Barkai: “Canario will be the Waze for air monitoring” Canario Pro/ Courtesy by Yehudit Haspel Ben-Dak 9 billion people breathe globally polluted air and about 400 hundred million people fight asthma and other respiratory diseases. About 20 million die every year from viral infection spread by respiratory droplets and about 100 million suffer skin […]
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