Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Florida School Board To Keep Religious Holidays
Following a firestorm of criticism, a Florida school board voted Monday to abandon its plan to drop all religious holidays except for Christmas from the school calendar. The Hillsborough school board, representing a district that includes Tampa and surrounding suburbs, scrapped its plan to keep classrooms open on Yom Kippur, Good Friday and the Monday…
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Culture Joshua Venture: Gone for Good, or Ready for a Fresh Start?
After helping to launch some of the Jewish world’s most buzzed-about fledgling organizations in recent years, Joshua Venture closed its doors last spring after only five years of operation. As supporters evaluate exactly what went wrong, some of the group’s major funders have already moved on to new projects. Nonetheless, there is still a chance…
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News Nashville’s Temple Cemetery Added to Historic Register
Nashville’s Temple Cemetery offers, in capsule form, a taste of the rich history of the city’s Jews. In one section there rests Zadock Levy, who, with eight nephews in tow, arrived in “Music City” from Bavaria in the 1850s and promptly opened a clothing store that exists to this day. In another there is Judah…
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Israel News Racy Pics Make Rapper Blush
For those who can’t decide which is more provocative — pornographic bible cartoons or a rapper who calls himself The Jewish Jesus Freak — a recent dustup may help lead to an answer. 50 Shekel — a former Orthodox Jew who announced in June that he had become a Jew for Jesus after, among other…
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News Storm Victims Go Home for the Holiday
NEW ORLEANS — Expectations for the Kol Nidre turnout at New Orleans’s oldest Reform synagogue were so low that synagogue leaders originally planned to hold services in the building’s small chapel. But five minutes after prayers were scheduled to begin, as 300 people overflowed to folding chairs in the hall, it was clear they had…
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News Shooting Halts Services At Chabad Shul in Boca
A near-fatal shooting halted Rosh Hashanah services at a Florida synagogue last week, leaving one worshipper with three broken ribs and a collapsed lung and another in jail without bond. Marc Benayer, 79, was arrested October 4 after allegedly shooting Jonathan Samuels, 44, outside the Chabad Weltman Synagogue in Boca Raton on the first day…
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News Washington Caterer Sued Over Nonkosher Banquet
Among wedding faux pas, serving shrimp to your kashrut-observant in-laws ranks pretty high. But that is exactly what happened during a wedding in Washington, according to a lawsuit recently filed in U.S. District Court by Mark and Judy Siegel. The couple’s daughter, Rebecca Siegel Baron, married Craig Baron in an April 2 ceremony at the…
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News After Katrina, Rabbi’s Future Uncertain
A leading Orthodox outreach group has issued an urgent fund-raising plea to support a displaced rabbi whom it claims “no longer has a synagogue or a home to return to.” Aish HaTorah, an Orthodox Jewish outreach group that is the American arm of an Israeli yeshiva, sent out a mass October 7 e-mail appeal on…
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