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News Entrepreneur Creates Social Network for Dead
(Haaretz) — Looking for your loved one’s headstone? Shelly Furman Asa has created a Google Street View for cemeteries. Ido Kenan: What are you looking for in cemeteries? Shelly Furman Asa There are many things that have been done in connection with the commemoration of soldiers, Holocaust victims and so on. But we don’t have simple…
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Fast Forward John F. Kennedy’s Cold War Bunker Sits Off Florida’s Jewish Gold Coast
The dingy, cavernous steel fallout shelter hastily built on a man-made island off Florida’s heavily Jewish ‘gold coast’ is a stark reminder of the harsh realities President John F. Kennedy faced from the first days of his presidency at the height of the Cold War. As the Kennedy family vacationed minutes away at the Palm…
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Fast Forward German Jews Get Europe’s First State-Run Divinity School
Europe’s first state-run Jewish divinity program, the School for Jewish Theology, has opened at the University of Potsdam outside Berlin. The program, which was opened on Monday, is being called a groundbreaking development in the German university system, which up to now has only subsidized Catholic and Protestant theological training programs. Recently Islamic programs also…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Suspends Ties With Palestinian Al Quds University Over ‘Nazi’ Rallies
Brandeis University has suspended its partnership with the Palestinian Al-Quds University. Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence made the announcement Monday, saying the university will re-evaluate the relationship in the future. The universities have been sister institutions since 1998. The decision was made in light of recent events at the university, which has campuses in Jerusalem,…
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News Kibbutz-Like Plans Take Shape in Rural America
(JTA) — For most of the seven years Tova Kinderlehrer lived with her young family in Pittsburgh, she wished she were somewhere else. Her son wasn’t doing well in school, her husband’s construction career had stalled and Kinderlehrer, though part of a “massive” urban community, felt isolated. She dreamed of escape. In 2011, Kinderlehrer and…
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Opinion Ken Burns Teaches Jewish Side of Gettysburg
Exactly 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln said: “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” On its anniversary, the Gettysburg Address, which is often considered the most important speech of American history, is anything but forgotten: Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns launched…
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News Bar Mitzvah Boy Recalls Covering John F. Kennedy’s Funeral — 50 Years Later
When you undergo a traumatic experience, especially at a young age, you remember details of that experience for the rest of your life. And so it was for so many on the day of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Friday, November 22, 1963. I was an eighth-grader at Akiba Hebrew Academy, in Merion,…
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Life Q&A: Viral Poetry Slammer Lily Myers
Lily Myers’ poem, “Shrinking Women,” has gone viral. Originally from Seattle, the 20-year-old first started writing poetry during her junior year of high school after she “accidentally” took a creative writing class. She ended up loving poetry and with the encouragement of her teacher, started attending open mic nights. Fast-forward four years, Myers has found…
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