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News Ditch Your iPhone and Learn To Listen
The relationship I have with my electronic devices is intimate. I take my laptop to bed, my tablet to the bathroom and my phone to dinner. What began fifteen years ago as a monogamous arrangement with a Nokia phone that had a screen the size of an iPhone icon, along with an antenna and the…
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Opinion Sticking by Shabbat Was Real Story at USY
(Haaretz) — The Jewish Telegraphic Agency wire service ran an article about the United Synagogue Youth’s annual international convention, under the headline “USY drops ban on interdating.” Unfortunately, this headline, which was widely circulated among Jewish news outlets, failed to capture the real issue that emerged from the confab. A more apt headline would have been…
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Breaking News United Synagogue Youth Eases Rule on Dating Non-Jews
lior zaltzman (JTA) — United Synagogue Youth voted to relax its rules barring teenage board members from dating non-Jews. The amendment was adopted Monday in Atlanta at the annual international convention of the Conservative movement’s youth group. The USY board also elected not to adopt a controversial proposal to eliminate the organization’s requirement that teen board…
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Israel News Turning Shabbat Into Front in War on Secular Jews
(Haaretz) — There really shouldn’t be anything controversial about a traditional Jewish Friday night dinner. After all, a nice meal with a blessing over candles, wine, and challah bread never hurt anybody. Even secular Israelis who don’t find traditional Jewish practice their cup of tea, or simply embrace the idea of Friday night as “family…
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Breaking News Birthright Israel NEXT Winds Down Shabbat Subsidies
After 20,000 dinners, the alumni network for Taglit-Birthright Israel, the program that takes young Jews on free identity tours to Israel, is turning out the lights on its subsidized holiday dinner program. Launched in 2008 by Birthright Israel NEXT, the holiday observance initiative paid Birthright alumni to host friends for Sabbath, Passover and High Holiday…
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Israel News Birthright Alumni Program Ends Subsidized Shabbat
Birthright NEXT is ending its subsidized Shabbat meal program for Birthright alumni, the group announced in an email to constituents on December 4. NEXT will also end two similar programs that help pay for Passover seders and High Holiday dinners. The group said that it had helped fund 21,800 events through the three programs since…
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Breaking News Court Allows Tel Aviv Markets To Open on Shabbat
A Tel Aviv court ruled that supermarkets may remain open on the Sabbath in the municipality. Tuesday’s ruling denied a city request that the court require the stores to heed municipal attempts to keep stores closed on Saturdays. It is illegal in Israel to open retail businesses on the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown…
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The Schmooze 6 Jewish Costumes for Shabbat-oween
Dressing up for Halloween is always an ordeal. Dressing up when Halloween also falls on Shabbat? Wow. So this year, in honor of “Shabbatoween,” we’ve come up with some easy tricks to add a topical Jewish twist to your costume. Major treats guaranteed. 1) Irv Rosenfeld from “American Hustle” For ultimate ’70s swag, pair a…
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