Ben Sales (JTA)
By Ben Sales (JTA)
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Food Washington, D.C. Is Getting Three New Kosher Restaurants
For years, the nation’s capital had only one full-fledged kosher restaurant. But as of this week, that changed. The clergy at Ohev Shalom-The National Synagogue, a Washington D.C. Modern Orthodox congregation, have given kosher certification to three vegan restaurants in the District (along with two others in the suburbs). Leading the effort is Maharat Ruth…
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Opinion Why Israelis Are Fearing a Third Intifada
First it was clashes on the Temple Mount. Then a mother and father were shot before the eyes of their four children. Then two men were killed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City. Now Israelis fear the wave of conflict will only rise. Here’s why the violence began, how it’s escalated and what…
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Israel News Israel’s Field of Dreams
The 14- and 15-year-old boys pat their gloves and stand alert across the infield, their knees bent and eyes shifting between home plate and the pitcher’s mound. Coaches yell out the familiar phrases: “Nice play!” “Throw to first!” “Easy out!” Then, from the dugout, a player shouts, “Yala, Uriah! Kadima!” – “Let’s go, Uriah. Forward.”…
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Israel News Recognizing Jewish Refugees From Arab World
Naim Reuven was only 8 when he left Baghdad more than 50 years ago, but he still remembers going with his father to catch fish in the Tigris River. His dad worked in a laundromat, a middle-class father of six and one of Iraq’s more than 100,000 Jews. Baghdad’s Jewish community suffered a pogrom in…
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