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Community Is The Retroactive Legalization of Israeli Settlements Just?
In February of this year, the Knesset passed a bill known as the chok ha’hasdarah or the Regulation Law. The purpose of the law is to retroactively legalize housing built in good faith, i.e. at the time it was built the builder did not know that the land they were building on was owned by…
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Community 5 Questions For The Co-founder of Waze
In this series —Why Is This Interview Different From All Other Interviews — we will introduce you to pioneering Jewish leaders across a variety of industries. Uri Levine is a co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest driving traffic and navigation app, which was acquired by Google in June 2013 for more than $1.1 billion. After…
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Food After Delays, Masbia Soup Kitchen in Boro Park Opens Doors
The Boro Park branch of Masbia Soup Kitchen Network finally opened its doors Wednesday night, serving a hearty chicken dinner to a handful of hungry clients, after serious financial constraints resulted in delays over the past several months. So it was all the more satisfying for Masbia’s tireless executive director, Alexander Rapaport, when on Tuesday…
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Community Reflections on Jewish Megatrends
It appears to me that Sid Schwarz’s framing of strategies employed by successful Jewish organizations and programs is useful. Given that Beth Am is a synagogue attempting to establish its relevance in the current marketplace of Jewish ideas and with this current generation of American Jews, I believe we employ each of these strategies. Indeed…
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Opinion The Change-the-World Shabbat Dinner
Good deeds. I’ve been struck by how many Jewish holidays carry the message that we should be helping someone else. On Rosh Hashanah, we recite that tzedakah — charity — along with prayer and repentance, will lessen the severity of God’s decree. The Yom Kippur fast is meant to cleanse our souls, yes, but also…
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Breaking News 15 Teens Win Tikkun Olam Awards
Fifteen U.S. teens were recognized for their volunteerism with Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards. Each will receive an honorarium of $36,000 from the Helen Diller Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. The winners and their programs can be found here: http://www.dillerteenawards.org/award-recipients/2014-recipients. “Acknowledged…
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Opinion Help Us Find The Do-ers
Tikkun Olam. Repair the world. If you’re anything like me, the mere mention of the phrase is enough to make you cringe. Not because we don’t want to do our part for a better world. But for many in my generation, brought up with the idea that you wouldn’t get into college or get a…
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Opinion Anne Heyman Gave Rwanda Orphans a Family
Students at Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village play basketball on a village court in May 2009. Photo: Ben Gittleson It started with a simple question. Anne Heyman and her husband, Seth Merrin, were attending a 2005 talk at Tufts University Hillel by the real-life hero of “Hotel Rwanda,” Paul Rusesabagina, when they asked him to share the…
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