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For One Day, Newark’s Jews Return To Mourn
Newark, N.J. — The lively Jewish community that made Newark, N.J., one of the capitals of American Jewish life is long gone, but once a year a small spark of the community is rekindled — under police protection. One day each year, typically the Sunday that falls between the High Holy Days, a detail of…
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Secular and Orthodox Jews Meet at Preschool
On a recent Friday morning at a new Jewish preschool in Brooklyn, the women in pants handed their children over to the women in long skirts before heading off to their jobs at as documentary filmmakers and Web designers. The school, Chai Tots, is run by Chabad Lubavitch, the ultra-Orthodox movement that caters to unaffiliated…
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Near the Arctic Circle, the Jews of Syktyvkar Dream of a Fancy JCC
In a heavily forested region of Russia, stretching at points above the Arctic Circle, is the vast and frigid Komi Republic. And if one of this remote republic’s Jewish inhabitants has his way, its capital city will one day have a Jewish community center. Leonid Zilberg, a longtime Jewish community leader in Syktyvkar, is hoping…
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Criminals Slammed for ‘Using’ Religion
Haifa, Israel — In this season of Jewish repentance, Israel has been captivated by a debate about religious forgiveness for the people who might be thought to need it most: criminals. Just before the High Holy Days began, the Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, pointed to what he and some others have said…
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Retired American Generals Enter Israeli Politics Against Livni
Washington — A little-known hawkish group is offering assistance to embattled Kadima minister Shaul Mofaz in his fight to reverse results of the party’s primary election that put Tzipi Livni in line to create a new government coalition. Stand Up America, a security-minded organization led by former generals of the United States military, has hired…
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Leaders of Indie Prayer Groups Get Grants, Become Mainstream Darlings
Los Angeles — Independent minyans — those scrappy, do-it-yourself Jewish communities that have sprung up from Boston to Seattle and many places in between — largely have been defined by a central characteristic: They exist in the margins of the mainstream Jewish world. But that may be changing. If the past year is any indication,…
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From Alaska to Alabama, the Races That Could Change the Jewish Face of Congress
There would be enough members for a whole new minyan in Congress if all the Jewish candidates running for federal office were elected next month. Scandal, ethics clouds, changing demographics and a favorable political climate will help some of the 11 Jews vying to be elected to the House and the two Jews running for…
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In Virginia, Jews Could Play Role at Polls
Fairfax, Va. — For Jews who live just outside the nation’s capital in Northern Virginia, the nearest supervised kosher butcher is across the border in Maryland. They must head to communities such as Rockville, Silver Spring and Potomac, or into Washington, for a good kosher restaurant meal. With a population estimated at only 100,000, Virginia’s…
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Dems Gather in NYC
The evening of October 7, a capacity crowd of about 200 people — most of them young, hip and Jewish — gathered at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space for a debate-watching party that American Jewish World Service hosted. Those who got there early parked themselves in the archipelago of seating areas perched above an indoor pond…
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Party for Palin in D.C.
A joint party for watchers of the October 2 vice presidential debate, held at a downtown Washington law firm, brought together a couple hundred Republican Jews to cheer Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and jeer Delaware Senator Joseph Biden. The event, hosted by the Republican Jewish Committee’s National Women’s Committee and by two Republican women’s groups,…
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Obama Hit for Grants
The latest Republican attack line on Barack Obama involves a rabbi who is a relative of the Obama family. The Republican National Committee is circulating a news release October 7, calling the Democratic presidential nominee to task for awarding $75,000 in grants to a social services agency led by Rabbi Capers Funnye, a black rabbi…
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