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In Battle of Jewish Events Apps, a Question of Online Privacy
In a tale of two apps, both the Jewish establishment and a private entrepreneur have recently released downloadable software that will enable users to obtain up-to-date listings of Jewish events. Though similar in their goal of engaging young adults in Jewish life, Grapevine and JJive, as they are called, differ radically in an important respect:…
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Non-Jewish Soldiers To Be Buried in Same Section as Jews at Har Herzl
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is expected to announce Sunday that non-Jewish soldiers will be buried in the same sections as Jewish soldiers in military cemeteries – but in different rows. The decision follows an incident on Memorial Day when the IDF chief of staff chose not to place a flag at the grave of a…
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Claims Conference at Crossroads as Fiery Meeting Looms for Holocaust Group
The annual board meeting of the organization responsible for allocating billions of dollars in Holocaust restitution money is a famously heated affair. But for Julius Berman, chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, this year’s conference promises to be one of the most contentious; indeed, it may turn out to be one…
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Brazilian Jews Take to Streets To Join Massive Push for Change
When Alan Rochlin joined hundreds of thousands of Israelis who took to the streets in 2011 to protest skyrocketing living costs, he never imagined he would be doing the same in his native Brazil just two years later. But as Brazilians made international headlines in late June with massive anti-government protests, Rochlin, a 21-year-old marketing…
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Young Jews Trying To Help Egypt Face Obstacles — Abroad and at Home
The circumstances of Andrew Driscoll Pochter’s death were just emerging when the questions began: What was a Jewish boy doing in Egypt? How could he have been naive enough to get involved in a protest? Why wasn’t he in Israel instead? Pochter, raised in a Jewish home in Chevy Chase, Md., active in Hillel at…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pumps Iron, Not Slowing Down at 80
At age 80, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leader of the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal wing, says she is in excellent health, even lifting weights despite having cracked a pair of ribs again, and plans to stay several more years on the bench. In a Reuters interview late on Tuesday, she vowed to resist any pressure…
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Falling Tree Kills Counselor From New York at Jewish Summer Camp
A Jewish summer camp counselor from New York was killed and several others injured when a 70-foot tall black oak tree fell outside a dining hall at the camp near Yosemite National Park in northern California. Annais Rittenberg, 21, a “beloved member of the Camp Tawonga staff,” was killed and four others injured when the…
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Mikhl Herzog, Columbia Professor and Yiddishist, Dies at 85
Marvin (Mikhl) Herzog, who passed away on June 28 at age 85, exemplified the lexicographer’s belief that by genial attention to minutiae, a life’s work can be constructed. Toronto-born Herzog was a longtime professor of Yiddish at Columbia University as well as director and editor-in-chief of the Yiddish Atlas Project which co-published with YIVO the…
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As Sun Drops on Western Wall, Pondering the Difference Change Could Make
Jane Eisner’s special report, A Day at the Kotel, is running in three parts, ending today. Each piece focuses on a different time of day at the Western Wall, and the implications for the battle over the future of Judaism’s holiest site. By early evening, a summer breeze is making its way across the Kotel…
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Norman Lamm Leaves Outsized Legacy in Modern Orthodoxy — And a Cloud
The mood at the national convention of Modern Orthodox rabbis was somber on the day that Yeshiva University Chancellor Norman Lamm announced his retirement. Lamm, 85, attended the convention, walking with a cane and looking frail. On July 1, the day his retirement letter was made public, the revered elder statesman of Y.U. sat in…
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Jewish Day Schools Put the Squeeze on State Governments for More Aid
Each year, when Frank Halper is faced with the state tax bill for his accounting business in Providence, R.I., he has a choice. He can write a check for the amount owed by his company or, as part of a state tax credit program, he can send a check to a foundation that provides tuition…
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