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News In Battle of Jewish Events Apps, a Question of Online Privacy
In a tale of two apps, both the Jewish establishment and a private entrepreneur have recently released downloadable software that will enable users to obtain up-to-date listings of Jewish events. Though similar in their goal of engaging young adults in Jewish life, Grapevine and JJive, as they are called, differ radically in an important respect:…
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Opinion The Crossword Clue That Raised an Age-Old ‘Shylock’ Anti-Semitic Trope
For me, it started with a thrown penny. It clattered to the parking lot asphalt of the swim club I frequented as a child, and in my innocence I bent to pick it up, looking around to see who had lost it. Two teenage girls stared at me, giggling, and refused to take back the…
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Life My 2% Divorce Dilemma
I was talking to a friend once, a woman who’s been married for a few years, and she said, “There will be times when you’ll think to yourself, ‘Why did I marry him? Did I make a terrible mistake?’ And that’s okay.” Out of relief, out of gratitude for her speaking so honestly, out of…
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News Brazilian Jews Take to Streets To Join Massive Push for Change
When Alan Rochlin joined hundreds of thousands of Israelis who took to the streets in 2011 to protest skyrocketing living costs, he never imagined he would be doing the same in his native Brazil just two years later. But as Brazilians made international headlines in late June with massive anti-government protests, Rochlin, a 21-year-old marketing…
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Fast Forward Islamists Claim Egypt’s New Leader is Jewish
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s website briefly posted an article claiming that the country’s current interim president is Jewish. The article, which appeared Thursday on IkhwanOnline, has since been taken down, though a translation is still available online. It claimed that Adly Mansour, the judge named Egypt’s interim president following the removal of Mohamed Morsi from…
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Fast Forward Pope John Paul II and John XXII Will Both Be Declared Saints
Pope John Paul II, the globe-trotting pontiff who led the Catholic Church for nearly 27 years, and Pope John XXIII, who called the reforming Second Vatican Council, will be declared saints, the Vatican said on Friday. The Vatican said Pope Francis had approved a second miracle attributed to John Paul, a Pole who was elected…
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Fast Forward Schechter Schools Get $2M Avi Chai Grant
The AVI CHAI Foundation awarded nearly $2 million to support the Conservative movement’s Solomon Schechter network of Jewish day schools. Two grants, for the Solomon Schecter School Network and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, include some $1.7 million in funding from AVI CHAI and a challenge grant from an anonymous foundation, according to a…
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News Young Jews Trying To Help Egypt Face Obstacles — Abroad and at Home
The circumstances of Andrew Driscoll Pochter’s death were just emerging when the questions began: What was a Jewish boy doing in Egypt? How could he have been naive enough to get involved in a protest? Why wasn’t he in Israel instead? Pochter, raised in a Jewish home in Chevy Chase, Md., active in Hillel at…
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