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Fast Forward Shmuley Boteach Tweets Fear as Wife and Daughter Trapped in Mall Standoff
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach tweeted throughout a standoff with a gunman at the Garden State Mall in New Jersey, while his daughter and wife took cover inside. Boteach and three of his children were entering the mall to meet his wife and daughter near closing time on Monday night when mall patrons streamed through the doors…
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Fast Forward Semon Domnitser Gets 8 Years for $57M Holocaust Claims Conference Fraud
Semen Domnister, the former Claims Conference employee who was found guilty of leading a $57 million fraud scheme at the Holocaust restitution organization, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Domnister, 55, was sentenced Monday in Manhattan federal court. He was also ordered to forfeit $59,230 and pay restitution in the amount of $57.3 million….
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Opinion Tall (Reform) Rabbi in Sea of Black Hats
More than 5,000 Chabad rabbis and supporters gathered on Sunday for the 30th annual conference of international Shluchim, or messengers of the Hasidic movement. Former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman addressed the crowd as the first keynote speaker. Rabbi Dov Greenberg, Chabad rabbi at Stanford University, told the crowd that you are more likely to find…
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Opinion The (Chabad) Rebbe’s Army
(JTA) — So far as I know, there are two major roll calls each year in the Jewish world. One takes place each spring at the annual AIPAC convention in Washington, in which the names of hundreds of members of Congress are read aloud from the rostrum. The other took place last night, at the annual…
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News Richard Joel’s Term at Y.U. Is a Study in Promise and Turmoil
Richard Joel spoke of renewal when he became president of Yeshiva University in 2003, promising higher academic standards and broader horizons. At first, the charismatic lawyer delivered. Then came 2008 and Bernard Madoff and the economic collapse. Today, Modern Orthodoxy’s educational core is showing cracks. Secular faculty members are furious over salary cuts. Students, aware…
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Israel News Inspirational Israeli Soldier Aharon Karov Runs in New York City Marathon
On Jan 12, 2009, during the Israeli army’s operation in Gaza, an apparently mortally wounded paratrooper was helicoptered to a hospital in Israel. The left side of his face, including his nose, had been ripped away, and his body had been pierced by more than 500 shrapnel fragments. It seemed unlikely that 2nd Lieutenant Aharon…
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News Samuel Cohen-Eckstein’s Family Pleads With Council for Action on Traffic Laws
Tears were shed by all present as the family of a Jewish boy killed by a vehicle in Brooklyn testified in front of the City Council’s transportation committee in favor of a bill reducing speed limits in residential areas, WNYC reported. Sammy Cohen-Eckstein, whose death came a month before his bar mitzvah, was crossing the…
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News Kosher Chicken, E Coli and the Horace Mann Kid
It’s a new, if still debatable, mystery of modern science: Why would kosher chickens harbor much higher levels of potentially dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria than nonkosher chickens? The authors of a recent study that found this are just as stumped as anyone. “Nobody expected it would be any higher than conventional chicken,” said lead author Jack…
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