Rick Harrison
By Rick Harrison
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Israel News Rabbi, Interfaith Leader Solomon Bernards, 90
Rabbi Solomon Bernards, director of interreligious cooperation at the Anti-Defamation League for 22 years, died on the morning of November 9 near his home in Rockport, Md., of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 90 years old. A progressive bridge-builder between faiths, genders and races, Bernards’s tenure at the ADL was focused in part on…
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News Presbyterians Dismiss Officials After Meeting With Hezbollah
Reeling from controversy over its decision to divest selectively from Israel, the Presbyterian Church (USA) fired two officials who helped organize a recent meeting with Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant organization branded by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. The church also received a threatening letter last week promising arson attacks against its houses…
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Israel News Labor, Civil Rights Organizer Harry Fleischman, 90
Harry Fleischman, a leader of Eugene V. Debs’s Socialist Party USA, and a life-long agitator for civil rights and social justice, died of cancer at his son Peter’s home in Manhattan on November 1. He was 90 years old. Born in the Bronx on October 3, 1914, Fleischman became involved with the party as a…
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News Teenagers Give the Gift of Charity
On the Sunday of her bat mitzvah weekend last month, Rebecca Schwartz — dressed in pink, as composed as any 13-year-old could be and displaying a set of straight teeth in a wide smile — rose before a crowd. She did not read from the Torah, as she had done with perfect pitch the previous…
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News Marine Faces Tough Fight Despite GOP Sex Scandal
David Ashe, a Democrat running for Congress in a heavily Republican district in Virginia, knows the difference between action and lip service. After the September 11 attacks, Ashe, then a Marine lawyer, served in Kuwait and then Iraq, where he worked to reform the country’s corrupt legal system. But on the campaign trail back home,…
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Culture Tuning in to Sounds Of the Warsaw Ghetto
Close your eyes, and you can see it. On April 19, 1943, there were 35,000 Jews remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto. Out of these, several hundred decided to fight the Nazi army rather than meet the fate of some 465,000 of their neighbors, who died of disease or were shipped off to extermination camps. They…
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News Cash-strapped Synagogue Weighs Sale to Messianic Congregation
The leaders of a faltering Conservative synagogue in Minnesota have been considering a proposal to sell their sanctuary to a messianic congregation that promotes Jewish worship of Jesus. The synagogue, Sharei Chesed Congregation, an aging religious community with 110 families, is weighing a $2 million offer from the Seed of Abraham Messianic Congregation. If finalized,…
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Culture Manuscripts Worth Millions
If you’re struggling to find a gift for that person who has everything and you’ve got a few hundred thousand dollars to spend, then Sotheby’s New York has the right auction for you. On October 27 and 28, the Montefiore Endowment at Ramsgate, England, will auction off a wide array of rare Hebrew manuscripts that…
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