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Houston Jews Begin Cleanup, With Help From Students And A Kosher Salami Company
(JTA) — Jewish relief efforts both large and small continue in flood-ravaged Houston. A dozen students from Yeshiva University in New York spent the Labor Day holiday weekend in the Texas city helping families clear out their flood-damaged homes and salvage any belongings. The students, who stayed with families whose homes were not damaged by…
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Miami’s Jews Prepare To Welcome Irma As A Very Unhappy Shabbos Queen
With South Florida in Hurricane Irma’s crosshairs, many in Miami’s Jewish community are staying put for what is shaping up to be a very stormy — and possibly dangerous — Shabbat. Even as Florida Gov. Rick Scott warned than Irma, a Category 5 storm, may be “bigger, faster and stronger” than Hurricane Andrew, the 1992…
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Center For Jewish History Chief Comes Under Fierce Attack By Right-wingers
Two prominent public relations operatives are calling for the firing of the newly installed head of Manhattan’s Center for Jewish History over his links to left-wing advocacy groups that are critical of Israel and the occupation. The operatives, Ronn Torossian and Hank Sheinkopf, published a column Tuesday condemning David Myers, the academic tapped in recent…
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These Jewish Dreamers Are Frightened — But Determined To Fight Over DACA
(JTA) — At 15, Elias Rosenfeld became a “Dreamer.” At the time, the Venezuela native was attending Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami, where he had lived since he was 6 years old, when his Jewish family moved to South Florida from Caracas. His mother was a media executive and they traveled…
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As Irma Looms, Florida’s Synagogues Are Spiriting Their Torahs Away To Safety
When Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992, it tore part of the roof off Bet Shira Congregation in Miami, leaving the synagogue flooded for days. It took two weeks before electricity was restored, and two months until activity in the Conservative congregation could be resumed. Andrew was a Category 5 hurricane, just like Hurricane Irma,…
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Europe’s Far-Right Proves It’s Possible To Be Pro-Israel And Anti-Semitic
Last year, a website known for being pro-Israel referred to the political commentator Bill Kristol as a “renegade Jew.” The website, Breitbart News, was co-founded by a Jewish lawyer, has an office in Jerusalem and calls itself “unapologetically” pro-Israel. Across Western Europe, this phenomenon of being both pro-Israel and anti-Semitic has also appeared among political…
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These Jewish Trump Supporters Aren’t Backing Down — Despite Growing Opposition
Supporting Donald Trump in the Jewish community can come at a steep price, admits Elise Freedman. During the presidential campaign ahead of last November’s election, the marketing professional from Charleston, South Carolina, campaigned enthusiastically for Trump, hanging signs on doorknobs in her city and posting pro-Trump memes on her Facebook page. After Trump stunned the…
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Amar’e Stoudemire Won’t Return To Play In Israel
Basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire, who led the Israeli basketball team Hapoel Jerusalem to victory in national championships, announced that he would not return to play another season. “Although I would have liked to return for another season, the team, coach and I could not find a role that I felt would allow me to meaningfully…
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How This Trailblazing Ultra-Orthodox Therapist Is Helping Houston After Harvey
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Jerusalem therapist Miriam Ballin is the kind of person who takes the initiative. Despite resistance from her haredi Orthodox community, she became a medic. Then she launched a pacesetting psychological first aid unit. Clearly she was not just going to stand idly by while Tropical Storm Harvey flooded her native Houston. So…
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ADL Suggests Cops Infiltrate, Film Antifa Protests — Then Takes It Back
The Anti-Defamation League has retracted recommendations that police infiltrate and film antifa protests, saying they had been “posted in error.” The group deleted the advice from a primer for law enforcement on antifa, the anti-fascist protest movement that has grown in profile since the white supremacist riot in Charlottesville in mid-August. ADL has received millions…
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23andMe Backpedals On Khazar Theory But The ‘Alt-Right’ Eats It Up, Anyway
23andMe has backpedalled from broadcasting the discredited theory that a portion of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from an obscure tribe from the Caucasus. But that hasn’t stopped members of the “alt-right” from jumping on the news that the giant Silicon Valley genomics company had given credibility to the so-called Khazar theory, which undermines Jews’ perception…
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