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News When Jews — and Everyone Else — Learned How To Have Fun
Beth Kissileff writes: “A rabbi recently said to me that there is no word for ‘fun’ in any Jewish language because Judaism is purpose and goal oriented. I said, ‘But there is keyf in Hebrew,’ and he said, ‘No, that’s from Arabic.’ Was the rabbi right?” On first thought, he would appear to be. If…
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Life On Instagram, Modest Fashion Goes Interfaith
Mimi Hecht and Mushky Notik / Courtesy of MIMU MAXI We are living in an age of unprecedented democratization. Of fashion. Thanks to the rise of chains like Zara and H&M, which offer fresh-from-the-runway styles at ordinary-people prices, and to the emergence of social media, which gives every aspiring Anna Wintour an outlet, the fashionista…
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Breaking News American Evangelical Christian Leaders Plan Solidarity Trip to Israel
Several prominent American evangelical Christian leaders will travel to Israel to demonstrate their support. The Aug. 17-22 trip, called “Christians in Solidarity with Israel,” was organized by the National Religious Broadcasters. Participants include Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of Billy Graham and president of AnGeL Ministries; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; and Richard…
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Breaking News Brazil School Forces Jewish Child To Say Lord’s Prayer
A Brazilian man accused a teacher of forcing the man’s Jewish son to recite a Christian prayer at a public school. The incident is said to have happened last month at the Ciep Cecilio Barbosa da Paixao school in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, according to a report earlier this week by the…
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The Schmooze Introducing the ‘Christooza’ — Yes, It’s a Cross Mezuzah.
Apparently, Christians have mezuzah-envy. Or so it would seem to one Henry Zabarsky, inventor of the “Christooza.” If you couldn’t guess from the name, it’s a portmanteau of Christian and Mezuzah, or Christooza. “I was visiting a client in Rockaway,” Zabarsky, a Jewish financial advisor from Queens, told the New York Post. “She’s very religious…
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Breaking News Reform Leader Joins Push To Spare Pregnant Christian Convert From Death
A Reform Jewish leader joined an interfaith delegation in meeting with the Sudanese ambassador to protest the death sentence of a woman convicted of converting to Christianity. Rabbi David Saperstein, who directs the Washington DC-based Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, joined leaders of Christian and Muslim groups in meeting June 5 with Maowia Khalid,…
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Breaking News Roman Jews Show Support for Nigerian Schoolgirls, Persecuted Christians
The lights illuminating the Colosseum in Rome will be switched off as a show of support for persecuted Christians around the world and the kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria. The initiative on Thursday is being co-sponsored by the Rome Jewish community and the Community of Sant’ Egidio, a Roman Catholic association that fosters interfaith dialogue, with…
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Breaking News Israel Steps Up Effort To Recruit Christian Arabs for Army
Israel said on Tuesday it was stepping up efforts to encourage military enlistment by Christian Arab citizens, a community long closer to the larger Muslim minority in identifying with the Palestinians. Israel’s Christian Arabs number about 160,000, some two percent of the Jewish state’s eight million people, and the expected number of conscripts – now…
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