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Chabad Lawyer Mediates Between Inuit Tribes in Alaska — and Keeps Kosher
In the remote villages of rural “Bush” Alaska — a vast region neither accessible by road nor connected to the ferry system — not only do indigenous people still rely on subsistence foods, but sharing these foods also holds significant cultural importance, especially in forging new friendships. “The problem is whale, seal, shellfish (obviously), even…
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8 Facts About Jewish Alaska
1. As of 2012, Alaska is home to just over 6,000 Jews. 2. Four mountain peaks in Alaska are named after Jews, including Mount Ripinsky for Solomon Ripinsky, a former mayor of Haines, Alaska, and Mount Neuberger for former Oregon Senator Richard Neuberger, who supported Alaskan statehood. 3. The largest Jewish congregation in Alaska, Congregation…
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Why Jewish Charities’ Tax Filings Are One Huge Mess
This was supposed to be a story about the money that Jewish charities spend on outside lobbyists. That’s something you’d like to know, right? How the $26 billion Jewish charity industry uses its massive financial resources to influence government, and how much it’s paying to do it? Turns out I can’t tell you. That’s because…
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How Colonel Jennifer Pritzker Pushes for Transgender Rights in Military
Colonel Jennifer Natalya Pritzker is not much for the spotlight. Like the rest of her family, the massively wealthy Chicago-based real estate scions, she rarely gives interviews. But the 63-year-old, whose official title is Colonel (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker IL ARNG (Ret), doesn’t have to say much for her mission to be clear. With an…
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Music Soldier Stabbed in Suspected Tel Aviv Terror Attack
A Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli soldier near a Tel Aviv train station on Monday, police said, as anti-Israel violence that has raised concern about a new Palestinian uprising in the making reached the country’s business capital. Israeli-Palestinian tensions have festered over access to a Jerusalem compound housing Islam’s third holiest site and…
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Nazi Hunter Meets Nazi Architect
Dani Gal is of the generation of Israeli artists who, instead of creating their national myths, grew up with them, lived under their spell, and watched as the myths grew into monoliths meant to define a people’s sense of themselves. His work is infused with a discomfort over the causal inevitability between the Holocaust and…
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Forward 50 2014 Molly Antopol
Despite her comparative youth, debut author Molly Antopol, 36, is something of a throwback. In her 2014 short-story collection, “The UnAmericans,” the San Francisco-based writer chronicled the gamut of the 20th-century American immigrant experience. Her keen eye and knack for mimicry enabled her to expose the lives of a wide array of characters — East…
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Could This Be Year of the Jewish Woman?
Never in the 20 years that the Forward has published its list of the 50 American Jews who have had the most impact on our national story has the number of women been this high — 26 in all, including four of the top five. Even we were surprised at the final tally. While women…
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Music Court Frees 138 Asylum Seekers in Israel
Israel will release 138 Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers who the nation’s Supreme Court ruled were being held illegally. Thursday’s ruling was in response to a petition filed by the nonprofit organization The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants. Following the decision, the Population and Immigration Authority said that the inmates would be released by Tuesday…
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Music Will Israel Recognizes ‘Aramaics’ as Separate Ethnic Group?
(Reuters) — In the green hills of the Galilee, where Jesus is said to have preached two thousand years ago, a group of Aramaic speakers looking to revive the language of Christ are celebrating a victory in their quest to safeguard their heritage. In a place where tensions run high on issues of ethnicity, faith and…
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Music Israeli Ministers Approve Applying Israel Law to West Bank Settlers
A ministerial committee approved a proposed bill on Sunday that would ensure the wholesale application of Israeli law to Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, a move sponsored by legislators who want Israel to annex part of the territory. But Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Israel’s chief negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians that…
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