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7-Year-Old Girl Swept Away in West Bank Stream
A seven-year-old girl died on Friday after getting swept up in flooding in a stream near Modi’in Ilit, as stormy weather conditions persisted across the country. The girl was found by police and volunteers after her father reported the incident, which took place amid stormy weather that has swept Israel since Tuesday. Kobi Rozenstein, a…
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Tough Sell For U.N. Palestinian Agency
Twice a year Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, comes to Washington to make the case for continuing funding for his organization, and the job only gets tougher. The U.N. agency, which is the primary provider of education, healthcare and housing for Palestinian refugees throughout the Middle East, was never…
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Hadassah’s 100th Anniversary and Its Link to the Titanic Recalled at Temple Emanu-El
“There were giants in the land at the time,” said Temple Emanu-El’s senior rabbi, David Posner, at the New York synagogue’s February 24 Sabbath service in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. The biblical allusion was to modern-day “giant” and Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, who on February 24,…
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Jewish Students Decry Spying on Muslims
Jewish students have voiced solidarity with their Muslim counterparts following new revelations that the New York City Police Department collected intelligence on Muslim groups at several college campuses in the northeast corridor. Student groups at several targeted colleges said they stepped up to defend their classmates in the face of surveillance that tramples on the…
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Raised Christian, But Jewish by Birth
Elisabeth Tinkham, 41, was raised as a Protestant by her adoptive parents, but always felt a connection to Judaism. Her most vivid childhood memory of the United Church of Christ involves a Passover Seder, which a rabbi demonstrated for the congregation. “I really liked the symbolism of the foods,” she said. “And when the rabbi…
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Double Trauma for ‘Hidden Children’
Among adoptees for whom the discovery of a Jewish past is most wrenching are the “hidden children” — those who survived the Holocaust by posing as Christians. In 1939, approximately 1.6 million Jewish children lived in areas that would be occupied by Nazi Germany and its allies. Although scholars differ on the numbers, it seems…
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The Softspoken Man Behind Times of Israel
When The Times of Israel, a new Web-only, English-language Israeli newspaper, hit the Internet in February, its glossy design and professional graphics moved many to wonder what well-heeled backer might be behind this latest entry into Israel’s crowded media market. As it turns out, Seth Klarman, another wealthy American Jewish investor, is following in the…
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Romney Will Address AIPAC Conference
Mitt Romney will address the annual AIPAC policy conference. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee announced Tuesday via Twitter that Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and a candidate for the Republican presidential nod, will address its policy conference on March 6, the day voters go to the polls in 10 states in the Super Tuesday…
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Farrakhan Blasts Jews for Pushing War With Iran
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan decried what he called Jewish control of the media and accused “Zionists” of trying to push America into war with Iran. Farrakhan spoke for three hours Sunday before a crowd of thousands at the 82nd annual Saviors’ Day celebration in Chicago. In his address, along with the accusation about…
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Women Seek Role in Deciding Halacha
Even as Orthodox women take on clergy-like roles, the task of interpreting Jewish law has long been the exclusive domain of men. But a new group called Beit Hillel aims to bring down that barrier. An alliance of 120 Orthodox rabbis and 30 female religious scholars, Beit Hillel was formed to counter the increasingly hard…
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Circumcision Debate Heats Up in Colorado
The debate over circumcision has spread to Colorado, where two lawmakers are seeking to reinstate Medicaid funding for the procedure after it was cut last year. The proposal, which is snaking its way through the state legislature, has sparked a broader conversation about circumcision in Colorado and beyond, with Jews on both sides of the…
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