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News 4 Midterm Congressional Races for Jews to Watch
(JTA) — With midterm elections just around the corner, four races for the House of Representatives in particular are catching our Jewish eyes. In the Los Angeles area, Ted Lieu and Elan Carr are battling to succeed retiring Democratic stalward Henry Waxman. A Republican Jewish candidate is mounting a strong challenge for a Long Island…
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Opinion At ‘Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn,’ No Politics, Just Joy
N.Y. Jews kick off the ‘Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn’ celebration / Dove Barbanel In the Grand Army Plaza, at the entrance to Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the circle dance threatened to close me in. I had avoided it for some time, but the energy was contagious. I gave in and danced in one of the…
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Fast Forward Was Nicolas Sarkozy Hated by French Because He’s Jewish?
Bernard Kouchner, the previous foreign minister of France, said that former president Nicolas Sarkozy was widely disliked because of his Jewish origins. Kouchner made the assertion during an interview Tuesday for RMC radio in responding to the interviewer’s question about Kouchner’s observations about Sarkozy in Kouchner’s newly published book, “Crossed Memories.” In the book, which…
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Fast Forward Tunisian Jews May Vote for Islamist Party
Video: Nate Lavey More than 80 percent of Tunisian Jews who are eligible to vote have registered to do so and some may choose an Islamist party, a well-known member of the community said. Rene Trabelsi, a businessman and son of a leader of Tunisia’s Jewish community of 2,500 people, made the assertion in an…
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Culture Columbus May Not Have Been First Jew in America
(Haaretz) — On August 3, 1492, just three days after the deadline given to Spain’s large and vibrant Jewish community to convert to Christianity or leave the country for ever, three ships – the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria – set sail from the port in Palos de la Frontera West. They were heading for the…
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Opinion Introducing the Torah Party, My New Favorite Ritual
Getty Images Just a few months before he was killed in a 1996 bus bombing, my JTS classmate Matt Eisenfeld held a party in his Jerusalem apartment. It was a Saturday night, but it was hardly a typical Saturday night event. It was a siyyum, a conclusion of study, celebrating his completion of Masechet Kiddushin,…
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Fast Forward 2 Penn State Students Sentenced for Vandalizing Jewish Frat House
Two Penn State students who pleaded guilty to spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a mostly Jewish fraternity house were sentenced to community service and probation. Eric Hyland, 20, was sentenced last week in Centre County Court to 200 hours of community service and two years probation, and ordered to pay $6,000 restitution. Last month, Hayden Grom…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Girl Joins ISIS Radicals
Among the some 100 girls and young women who have left France in recent weeks to join the ISIS in Syria was a Jewish girl, the Daily Mail reported citing French intelligence. The French security official, who spoke anonymously to the British newspaper, did not provide any other details on the Jewish girl, such as…
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