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Fired in Flap Over Construction Deal, Ex-Employee Sues Joint
The primary Jewish charity in Russia is being sued by a former employee who says he was fired after raising questions about a business deal in Moscow. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which is funded by American Jewish federations, is in Jerusalem court against Yoram Abergel. An employee of the JDC for 18 years…
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New Restrictions on Religious Workers Draw Fire From Faith-Based Groups
An effort by the Bush administration to tighten regulation of a special visa program for religious workers is drawing fire from a variety of faith-based groups, who argue that the move could amount to a violation of religious freedom. In April, after reports of widespread fraud in its “temporary religious workers” visa program, the Department…
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Yeshiva of Rock
Four years ago, I received a burned CD copy of an unreleased album. Hastily written on the disc in black marker was the band’s name, The Marcus Brothers. The CD contained an album-worth of explicitly Orthodox rock. It was something of an underground Chabad secret, the group’s core members two real-life brothers, one of them…
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Aliyah Agency Loses Its Monopoly
Jerusalem – For as long as Israel has existed, the Jewish Agency for Israel has had a government monopoly on bringing new immigrants into the country, but new legislation is set to change that. This coming Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet is expected to approve a decision to allocate 19 million shekels to two privately founded…
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A Youthful House
Being a Zionist on an American college campus can get lonely. On one side, there are overwhelmingly liberal campuses, teeming with student groups who equate Zionism with racism. On the other, there is the Republican right, which often qualifies its love for Israel with hints of evangelism, or ties it to a right-wing social agenda….
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The Power of Theater
I watched Josie watch the stage. Lucy was entering Narnia for the first time. The furs in the wardrobe were becoming trees. The mothballs, crunching beneath her feet, were becoming snow. Suddenly she was in a strange new land, and there was a faun. Josie was just as transported. In this children’s theater production of…
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California Congressman Piles on Opposition to ADL’s Abe Foxman
California Congressman Adam Schiff is adding his voice to the chorus of opposition taking the national ADL to task for failing to unequivocally label the World War-era mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Turks as genocide. “I would like to see the ADL unequivocally recognize the Armenian genocide,” Schiff said in an…
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Adieu to Arye
THE MANY GOODBYES FOR DEPARTING ISRAELI AMBASSADOR ARYE MEKEL “None has served with such personal modesty and clarity of purpose,” said UJA executive vice president John Ruskay of Israel’s departing consul general, Arye Mekel, at the joint UJA-Federation of New York/Jewish Community Relations Council of New York’s July l7 leave-taking reception. “[His was] the more…
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Religious Rights on Trial as Circumcision Case Reaches Oregon’s High Court
The highest-level case in American history involving the right to circumcision is slated to be heard this fall, when the Oregon Supreme Court rules on whether a father can have his 12-year-old son undergo the procedure. The case — which could affect the ability of parents to make religiously motivated decisions for their children —…
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Amid Jewish Cultural Renaissance, Leading Communal Arts Booster Is Retooling Identity
In the wake of seismic shifts in the Jewish cultural landscape, one of the longtime central addresses for Jewish culture is waging a struggle to remake itself. According to a strategic plan poised to be passed by its board of directors this week, the newly renamed Foundation for Jewish Culture is setting out to “become…
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Vegas Casino King Makes Bid For Israeli Media Moguldom
Jerusalem – Sheldon Adelson has spent the past two decades collecting a string of casinos, but now the billionaire — considered by many to be the richest Jew in the world — is taking another kind of gamble. Two weeks ago, Adelson, CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., launched Yisrael Hayom, or Israel Today,…
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