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Life I Grew Up in South Korea — Here’s Why I’m Embracing Judaism
I grew up in South Korea until the age of 15, which was when I moved to Ohio to go to a boarding school. South Korea has less than 100 Jews out of a 50 million population, which is composed of 99.9% Koreans. I did read comic books based on the Talmud when I was…
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Breaking News British Ultra-Orthodox Crowdsource $1.3M for Push To Keep Children from Secular Parents
A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews in London have launched a fundraising effort to keep “pure and holy” children within the community and away from the “evil culture” of a secular parent, according to a report by The Independent. he goal of the campaign is to raise £1 million to cover the legal fees of parents…
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Recipes 7 Sweets for the Most Romantic Jewish Holiday You’ve Never Heard Of
Tu B’av is being called the Jewish holiday of love. Here, some dessert recipes to help spark passion in the kitchen and elsewhere. Plum Cake With Lime and Rose It doesn’t get much better than this. Summer fruit, a hint of rose… and thou. Homemade Cherry-Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream Sandwiches Food editor Liza Schoenfein’s homemade…
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Community Rekindling a Spanish Jewish Experience
On July 4, a group of about 375 people from the U.S. and Canada, including about 50 cantors, arrived in Barcelona on a historic Cantors Assembly Mission to Spain. This was the 3rd Mission of the Cantors Assembly, conceived and led by the indefatigable and visionary Nathan Lam of Stephen S. Wise Synagogue of Los…
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News Why Does Wikileaks Have a Reputation for Anti-Semitism?
Since gaining international attention in 2010 with the release of nearly 100,000 classified logs of the war in Iraq, Wikileaks — often through the actions of its founder Julian Assange — has repeatedly come under fire for anti-Semitism. The organization, which routinely publishes large caches of confidential or otherwise private emails, cables and government documents,…
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Israel News Will Israeli Police Body Cameras Rein In Abuse Against Blacks?
Black Israelis are backing as “historic” a new plan to put body cameras on police in hopes of reining in what they see as a pattern of abuse of ethnic Ethiopians — even though some American Black Lives Matter activists oppose the cameras. After a series of incidents involving police and Ethiopians, including the videotaped…
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Food Jewish Cookbooks & The Stories They Tell
During a dinner conversation a year or two ago, my father briefly alluded to a “gross” lard-like product his mother used for frying. I had forgotten the name of it until a recent walk-through of “Nourishing Tradition: Jewish Cookbooks & The Stories They Tell” at the Center for Jewish History, where a pamphlet published by…
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News This Phone Number Lets You Talk to Random Jews Around the World
A new phone number connects callers with Jews living all over the world — whether they are looking for kosher restaurant recommendations, local synagogues or just a chat. Those calling “The Jewish Number,” or +1-323-310-0622 to be exact, can choose to get a “Jewsome answer” from someone in one of 22 registered cities around the…
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