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Fast Forward Top Australian Jewish Leader Under Fire for Email Blaming Hamas for ‘War Crimes’
A senior Jewish leader in Sydney, who also holds a government post, is under fire for an email that accuses Hamas of “war crimes” but avoids reference to Palestinian deaths from Israel’s operation in Gaza. Vic Alhadeff, chief executive of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and chair of the Community Relations Commission,…
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Opinion How To Save $163K on Jewish Day School Bill
Getty Images (JTA) — When the parents of three school-age children sat down with their financial adviser to try to figure out how to minimize their anticipated private school tuition bill of $810,000 through high school, they came up with a plan that shrunk the bill by $163,000. How’d they do it? Well, mostly by pre-paying,…
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Fast Forward Belgium Anti-Semitism Sends Jews Fleeing
Anti-Semitism in Belgium is causing a Jewish exodus, a former community leader and anti-racism activist warned. Joel Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, or LBCA, made the warning in an interview for the La Libre daily ahead of a screening his organization held in Brussels of a new film about the 2006 anti-Semitic…
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News Hasidic in the Heat
Aren’t you shvitzing in that? To those of us who recently made the gleeful switch to shorts and tees from pants and sweaters, the garb of some Orthodox and pretty much all Hasidic Jews can look painfully off-season. Long coats, long sleeves, long skirts, long stockings, long side curls — well, those probably aren’t a…
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News Jewish? No, We’re Subbotniks. Welcome to Our Synagogue.
Slipping and skating on the icy street, Larisa Semyonova approached an austere gray-brick building and then stopped to greet it as if it were an old friend. “This was our prayer house — our synagogue,” she said. But now, her modest wooden house farther down Nairyan Street is sufficient for that purpose. Four pensioners awaited…
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Opinion Feeling ‘Chosen’ in Alabama
Anne and Sigal’s flight path. Next stop, Birmingham. We landed in Birmingham and were hit by a wall of heat — and a Bible. The taxi driver who ushered us from the airport to our hotel keeps a copy of the Holy Bible on his passenger seat. Welcome to Alabama. That was tame compared to…
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Israel News How Jewish Summer Camps Are Coping With Murders of Israeli Teenagers
(JTA) — On the morning of June 30, the children began arriving at Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia, Wash., ready for a fun-filled summer. But shortly before the first little feet descended the bus steps, the sleepaway camp’s Israeli counselors learned from back home about the discovery of the bodies of three teens kidnapped in the…
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Life How Facebook ‘Like’ Came Between Dad and Me
Avital Norman Nathman and her son on a recent trip to Israel I am my father’s daughter. That means I am incredibly passionate, equally stubborn and some might even say hot-headed. You can just imagine how my teen years went as I came into my own — lots of slammed doors, shouted ultimatums, and threats…
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