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Irish Jewish Community Dwindles One St. Patrick’s Day at a Time
Between the national election and the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Irish — a famously loquacious bunch — have much to debate over their pints of Guinness these days. But for 89-year-old Freddy Rosehill and his best friends in Cork, there is just one subject of conversation these days: what…
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Jewish Group Plans To Protest Donald Trump’s AIPAC Speech
Donald Trump’s appearance at the upcoming AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington has at least one Jewish group planning to protest. The group of professionals and clergy, which calls itself “Come Together Against Hate,” says that Trump and his hate speech have no place at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “We…
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Miniature ‘Therapy Horses’ Prove To Be Strong Medicine for Sick Kids
Some of the most powerful medicine delivered to young patients at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on Wednesday came in a package less than 32 inches tall and with a tail. Honor, a 10-month-old colt with , trotted into the hearts of dozens of children and teens being treated at the Jewish hospital…
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Merrick Garland, Moderate Jewish Judge, Gets Supreme Court Nod — Republicans Push Back
President Barack Obama selected Merrick Garland for the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, choosing a centrist Jewish judge meant to win over recalcitrant Senate Republicans whose leaders wasted no time in spurning the Democratic president. Garland, 63, was picked to replace long-serving conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13. The Chicago native serves…
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Mitch McConnell Blasts Merrick Garland Nod — Does Not Rule Out Consideration
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama has politicized the Supreme Court nomination process by putting forward veteran appellate court judge Merrick Garland during a presidential election. “It seems clear that President Obama made this nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize…
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Steamrolling on, Donald Trump Leaves Jews With No Easy Answers
Among the hundreds of supporters who came to what turned out to be Marco Rubio’s farewell from the presidential race at Florida International University in Miami on March 15, were three Jewish high school students, preparing to attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference in Washington the following week. Just like their older…
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Real-Life Anatevka Offers Refuge for Jews in Strife-Torn Ukraine
(JTA) — At the age of 53, Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko fled their native city of Lugansk with three suitcases and moved into a wooden room in a muddy refugee camp outside Kiev. Like hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine’s war-torn east, life for this Jewish couple in 2014 went from a normal bourgeois…
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Kotel Egalitarian Prayer Advocates Have Faith Bibi Will Enforce Deal
(JTA) The Western Wall rabbi just denounced the Western Wall deal. Its supporters aren’t worried. And Women of the Wall activists are looking to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to back them up. In January, Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz agreed to a historic compromise with non-Orthodox leaders over the future of the holy site. On…
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Auditors Who Crunched Numbers at FEGS Dropped by 8 Top Not-For-Profits
Some of America’s leading Jewish not-for-profit groups are dropping a accounting firm following financial scandals at a string of the firm’s clients. New York-based Loeb & Troper has lost at least eight Jewish not-for-profit clients in recent years, including, in the past few months, the Jewish Federations of North America, which is the umbrella organization…
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Hillary Clinton Hopes To Run Up Score on Bernie Sanders With Jews in Florida
Florida has one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States, but the Jewish candidate in Tuesday’s Democratic primary appears to be barely a factor in the state. Recent polls have given Hillary Clinton a nearly 2-1 lead over Bernie Sanders in Florida, including in the southern part of the state, where plenty of…
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Surprise: Putin Says Russia To Withdraw Troops From Syria
In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a military withdrawal from Syria. Saying its intervention, launched in 2015, has mostly achieved its goals, Putin said Monday the pullout of most of Russia’s forces will begin Tuesday, according to Reuters. Russia will keep its Hmeimim airbase and its longtime Tartus naval base in…
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