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The Schmooze Aly’s Grandparents ‘Just Thrilled’
Watching your granddaughter perform intricate somersaults and jumps, swinging in the air like a rubber band, landing on the floor from a balance beam after a back jump where her head was only inches away from being hit is not for the faint of heart. But 71-year-old Susan Faber is simply ecstatic to be Aly…
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News Aly Raisman Falls Just Short in Finals
Aly Raisman fell just short of winning a medal in the women’s gymnastics competition at the Olympics after losing a tiebreaker and finishing in fourth place. American Gabby Douglas won the gold. Sixteen-year-old Douglas took the Olympic Games by storm on when she won the all-around gold medal ahead of Russian Victoria Komova. “I feel…
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Fast Forward Leiby Kletzky Killer Set To Plead Guilty
A Brooklyn man was expected to plead guilty next week to butchering an 8-year-old boy who got lost while walking home alone from an Orthodox Jewish day camp, a source close to the case said. The tentative plea deal calls for Levi Aron, 36, to be sentenced to 40 years to life in prison when…
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Fast Forward Massive Crowd Gathers for Talmud Celebration
Some 90,000 people packed MetLife Stadium to celebrate the completion of the page-a-day Talmud cycle in the largest-ever Siyum HaShas. The gathering Wednesday evening, which was simulcast to some 60 U.S. cities and more than 20 countries elsewhere in the world, marked the completion of the 7-and-1/2-year cycle it takes to complete the Talmud (known…
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Opinion Neither Rain Nor Traffic Slows Siyum (See Video)
Despite rain and traffic jams, the mood was jubilant at MetLife stadium on August 1, as some 90,000 Orthodox Jews gathered to celebrate the completion of the study of the Talmud, or Siyum HaShas. A massive crowd of mostly ultra-Orthodox men in dark suits and hats packed the East Rutherford, N.J., football stadium, spilling out…
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Opinion Alive and Well?
Judaism, the Economist magazine says in its latest edition, is “alive and well.” And not just in that “I’m okay, you’re okay” sort of way that seems more like treading water than riding the waves. “Judaism is enjoying an unexpected revival,” opens an 11-page special report of the British weekly magazine — enjoying the kind…
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Fast Forward Barak Orders Draft of Ultra-Orthodox Men
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Israeli Defense Forces to draft haredi Orthodox men as it does other Jewish Israelis. The Associated Press reported that Barak has allowed a month for officials to formulate regulations on haredi conscription. The order came as the Tal Law, which allowed haredi men to defer army service, expired…
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News Mandel-Brown Race Shapes Up as Costly Ohio Battle
A flood of money brought in by prominent national political action committees has become the norm in this year’s U.S. Senate race in Ohio, which pits first-term incumbent Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, against Republican Josh Mandel, the state treasurer and a Jewish Iraq war veteran. Because of the state’s swing role in recent presidential elections…
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