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Pension Extends Coverage to More Rabbis
A problem facing rabbis and cantors who are not affiliated with major Jewish denominations could be headed toward a resolution, with a grassroots effort to provide retirement solutions to clergy working outside the mainstream rabbinical institutions. A new pension plan will provide a growing number of Jewish clergy who were ordained outside the major movements…
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Israel Arms German Subs With Nuclear Missiles
Israel is deploying nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on three of its German-built submarines, reports Der Spiegel, a mass-circulation news magazine. The German government has known about the Israeli nuclear program for decades, despite official denials, according to the magazine. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Spiegel, that Germany should be “proud” that it secured the existence…
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Collapsed Ceilings Lead to Big Mitzvah
Two collapsed ceilings led to one big mitzvah for a Brooklyn synagogue and a neighboring church. After its roof collapsed in 2009, Congregation Beth Elohim, located in Park Slope, temporarily moved its services to the Old First Reformed Church, down the block. Two years later, Rabbi Andy Bachman was nearly struck by chunks of plaster…
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Israel’s Battle With Illegal African Immigrants
With the number of African migrants living in Israel currently around 60,000, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently instructed the Defense Ministry to erect tent cities to hold African migrants. Formulated in the past as a contingency plan for an Israeli civilian population fleeing population centers during wartime, the original plan called for setting up temporary…
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Old Call for Old Things
Each Friday, a beat-up truck comes trundling down our Jerusalem block to collect used household items. “Alte zakhn! Alte zakhn!” the loudspeaker rings out. Then comes a list of items of interest: couches, chairs, tables, beds. All these are announced in Hebrew. Only that initial call, “Alte zakhn!” — literally, “old things” — is in…
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When Hate Speech Hits Social Media
Ask Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center how he grades Twitter’s efforts to combat anti-Semitic hate speech, and Cooper, the group’s associate dean, won’t even give Twitter an F. “They haven’t even shown up to the dance yet,” said Cooper, who directs the center’s anti-hate speech efforts. Facebook, on the other hand, has recently…
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Chick Lit Pioneer
Forty years ago, Gail Parent wrote a groundbreaking novel on what was at the time a fairly unexplored topic: the unmarried career woman. The book, “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York,” completed over a period of a year and a half while Parent was simultaneously writing for “The Carol Burnett Show,” is…
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Was Kiev Beating Anti-Semitic Act?
At about 1 a.m. on the second night of Passover, Alexander “Aron” Goncharov stepped from Brodsky Synagogue, in the center of Kiev, into the cold night air. The 25-year-old yeshiva student, who was staying at the synagogue’s hostel, never returned to his room. After hours of frantic phone calls the following day, yeshiva authorities finally…
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From Awkward to In Love
Sitting in a circle, the group of nine men and women giggled nervously as they discussed things not to say or do on a first date. To an outsider, their suggestions might seem obvious. “Don’t talk about your last boyfriend or girlfriend,” one plump woman ventured with a giggle. “Don’t tell them what you don’t…
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Eli Zborowski Center Stage at American Society for Yad Vashem Luncheon
“Because I inaugurated the spring luncheon more than a decade ago, I have a proprietary feeling about this event,” said public relations specialist Rochel Berman, keynote speaker at the Annual Spring Luncheon of The American Society for Yad Vashem, held at the Marriott Marquis on May 16. “I’d like to speak about Eli Zborowski, president…
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Packing Stadium for Anti-Internet Message
It’s not too late to save Michael Fromowitz. Fromowitz, 18, and a pack of his yeshiva classmates had come to the ultra-Orthodox anti-Internet rally at Citi Field in Queens from the Hasidic enclave of New Square in upstate New York. A redhead with long side curls, Fromowitz doesn’t have his own email address. He does…
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