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This man wants to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel. ‘If it happens, I will say it’s bashert’
Michael Adler has never been in the foreign service. But Adler, a Miami-based real estate developer and Democratic party donation-bundler, has a close relationship with President Joe Biden going back more than four decades. And Adler, who is turning 70 and has been an amateur pilot since age 21, said he has spent so much…
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Thirty-nine words about antisemitism are splitting the Jewish community
There’s a storm brewing in the American Jewish community over a definition of antisemitism that appears, upon first glance, quite banal. “Antisemitism,” it reads in part, “is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” But the language, adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016, comes packaged with…
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There are at least three days that have been set aside for remembering the Holocaust. Here’s the story behind them.
This Wednesday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. However, the day is only one of many points on the calendar which commemorate the victims of the Holocaust — the most prominent of which are Yom HaShoah, International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the fast days of Asarah b’Tevet and Tisha b’Av. Of course, for those whose families…
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How Germany’s far-right party is luring Jewish voters in this year’s election
Officially, the Jewish branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party has just 24 members. Its co-chair, Artur Abramovych, has a surprising message for Haaretz, though: “You have to know that there are many Jews who vote for the AfD.” The party has proved one of the most controversial in Germany since its…
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INTERVIEW: Israeli’s new Labor Party chief Merav Michaeli draws inspiration from Biden/Harris
Merav Michaeli, the Knesset member elected on Sunday to lead Israel’s beleaguered Labor Party, cleared her schedule last Wednesday to watch Kamala Harris be sworn in as the first female vice president in American history. For Michaeli, a former journalist and staunch feminist, this glass-ceiling moment was very important. “This gives other women the example,…
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ShulCloud is the king of synagogue software. Is that a good thing?
When UJA-Federation of New York and the nonprofit research firm Idealware provided congregations with an overview of the marketplace for synagogue management software in 2013, the list and explanations of possible vendors went on for eight pages. Now, there’s one synagogue management software that dominates this landscape: ShulCloud. About 1,200 congregations around the world use…
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Robert Pollack, 94, Scientist, Professor And Navy Veteran
(JTA) — (Jewish Exponent via JTA) —Robert Pollack was a scientist, author, Navy veteran and former chair of the department of biochemistry at Temple University’s School of Dentistry (now Kornberg School of Dentistry) who grew up speaking Yiddish at home with his immigrant Jewish parents in West Philadelphia. Pollack graduated from West Philadelphia High School and was…
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Ronald Rosenthal, 88, Beloved Community Dentist
(JTA) — (Jewish Exponent via JTA) — Dr. Ronald Rosenthal was a dentist who practiced for more than 50 years, becoming so beloved by his patients that they often invited him and his wife to their weddings, bar mitzvahs and other simchas. “His friends became patients, and his patients became friends,” his wife, Pat, said. Rosenthal died…
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Saul Victor, 82, Lead Singer In The Band He Founded
(JTA) — (Jewish Exponent via JTA) — Saul Victor owned Pearlstein’s Furniture in Philadelphia but loved to song, later becoming a professional lead singer in his own band, the Saul Victor Trio. “There wasn’t a bar or bat mitzvah, there was never a wedding or a friend’s simcha, that he wouldn’t get up with the band and…
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Gilbert Liss, 91, OB-GYN Who Delivered Over 8,000 Babies
(JTA) — (Jewish Exponent via JTA) — Dr. Gilbert Liss was an OB-GYN with a practice in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He delivered more than 8,000 babies in his career. “When I close my eyes and think about my dad, I feel his genuine joy for seeing me, the hand squeeze or arm around me walking side by side,…
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At Dodger Stadium COVID-19 vaccination site, a big mess, and big hopes
I ended Inauguration Day at Dodger Stadium. Actually, three miles outside Dodger Stadium, the last car in a line to get inside the nation’s largest Covid-19 vaccination site. I was taking a relative whose work in health care made her eligible for an early shot. We had a 5 p.m. appointment, so we joined the…
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