In a breakthrough for cardiology in Israel, doctors repaired a heart defect in a 38-year-old woman at Shaare Zedek Medical Center without implanting a foreign object in her body. The defect was corrected on Sunday with a stitch, and without putting the patient under full anesthesia, the hospital reported. The procedure, the first done in […]
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The summer after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, Helene Drobenare decided to take off a large Hebrew word from the T-shirts of her camp counselors. Shirts with the word “tzevet,” Hebrew for staff, usually in big block letters, are standard swag for the legions of counselors who work at Jewish day camps […]
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(JTA) — Before last November, Shlomo Lipetz already had his dream job. After drinking coffee and listening to a morning news podcast — “The Daily,” from the New York Times — he would then take the L train from his Brooklyn apartment and head to his job as vice president for programming at City Winery, […]
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Dani Dayan, former Israeli diplomat in NY and settler leader, picked to chair Israel’s Holocaust museum – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
Continue ReadingIN 2012, when a joint alumni group for the Jewish social justice organizations Avodah and American Jewish World Service announced it would hold a service trip to Israel without bringing participants to the Palestinian territories, the move caused a furor in the Avodah network. One hundred program participants and alumni signed a petition criticizing the […]
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Today, the Gemara asks: Why do I need all of these? No, the Gemara is not downsizing and looking to rid itself of sweaters that it hasn’t worn in three years. Rather, it’s asking about a mishnah that teaches that s’chach (roofing materials) that would normally render a sukkah invalid are fine if they are located at the outer edge of the […]
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Those of us who are into interior design hang all sorts of things in our living spaces to personalize them. We hang pictures on our walls. We hang curtains in our windows. We hang plants in our windows and on our patios. Today’s daf asks about hanging something else — the wall itself! Most of […]
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Biden nominates David Cohen, former Jewish federation vice chair, as US ambassador to Canada – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Canada will spend $5M to strengthen security at Jewish institutions, Justin Trudeau tells antisemitism summit – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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There’ll be bubble soccer and fire-breathing. Pool volleyball and flower pounding. Israeli dancing and rock climbing. And there won’t be a single Zoom screen in sight. That’s the plan for the first in-person retreat since the start of the pandemic by Camp Nai Nai Nai, the Jewish adult summer camp program that aims to give […]
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