Asaf Shalev
By Asaf Shalev
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News Students in Arizona, teachers in LA: A Jewish high school plans a post-COVID hybrid future
(JTA) — When Brooke and Scott Stein began considering where to send their children for high school, they encountered plenty of strong options in the Phoenix area, but each fell short in at least one important regard: The ideal school — coed, college preparatory, Jewish — didn’t exist where they live. Entrepreneurial and ambitious, the…
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Fast Forward Jewlia Eisenberg, musical intellectual and Jewish radical, dies at 50
(JTA) — Jewlia Eisenberg, who became an unlikely musical star by creating lively tunes inspired in part by arcane poetic and intellectual traditions, has died after struggling with the effects of a rare autoimmune disease. She was 50. The frontwoman for the band Charming Hostess, Eisenberg was a fixture of the avant-garde and experimental music…
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News Jews in mourning are finding unexpected comfort in virtual minyans
(JTA) — As soon as New York state began recognizing same-sex marriages in 2011, Judith Trachtenberg married her partner of decades. They were the first such couple to be wed by a rabbi from their beloved synagogue, B’nai Jeshurun on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. It was also around that time that Trachtenberg’s partner, Renie Rutchick,…
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Israel News When Israel’s Sephardic Black Panthers Used Passover To Decry Jewish ‘Racism’
It was the spring of 1971, and the 1960’s spirit of revolution still throbbed in the streets of America and Europe. On the streets of Jerusalem, knots of young Sephardi Jews could be seen protesting, too — calling for the overthrow of Prime Minister Golda Meir and for their own liberation in Israel as an…
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Opinion The Black Panthers Haggadah
The following is a translation of the Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah With a strong hand, two. And with an outstretched arm, two more. With great terror, two more. With protests, two more. With banners raised, two more. With hunger strikes, two more. These, then, are 10 plagues that the Black Panthers from Musrara brought upon…
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