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| RABBINIC AUTHORITIES HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky HaRav Yaakov Perlow BOARD OF TRUSTEES Rabbi Ilan Feldman
Atlanta, GA
Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr. Richard Horowitz
Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh
Northbrook, IL
Dr. David Lieberman
Lakewood, NJ
Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun
National Director
Rabbi Shlomo Porter
Baltimore, MD
Mr. Jeff Schachter Esq.
Passaic, NJ
Mr. Frank Storch
Baltimore, MD
HaRav Michel Twerski Milwaukee, WI
Mr. Jerry Wolasky
Baltimore, MD
ADVISORY BOARD Mr. Mark Bane
Lawrence, NY
Mr. Jonathan Beren
Denver, CO
Dr. Robert Edelman
Baltimore, MD
Dr. Michael J. Elman
Baltimore, MD
Rabbi David Felsenthal
New York, NY
Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman
Mr. Harvey Hecker*
Toronto, ONT
Mr. Stephen Rosedale
Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Simcha Scholar
Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Dovid Refson
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr Gary Torgow
Detroit, MI
Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD
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An Article from JTA
Though the Jewish community in South Korea is small, Jews visiting the country to compete in or watch the Winter Olympic Games won't have to skimp on kosher food or Shabbat programming.
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An Article from Tablet
For most of the last decade, a group of God's chosen Golden Oldies have gathered to celebrate the day of His rest at a Wendy's in Palm Desert, California.
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An Article from eJewish Philanthropy
Approximately 50 percent of U.S. nonprofits are operating on a financial precipice, a new report by Oliver Wyman, SeaChange Capital Partners, and GuideStar reveals.
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy
The Museum of Failure - likely the first of its kind - opened last year in Sweden.
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White supremacist propaganda on American college campuses has seen a dramatic increase since the fall of 2016, according to the Anti-Defamation League
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According to a Hadashot News TV report, the State Department is mulling an end to all of its $360-million annual aid to United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after it already froze a payment to the organization of more than $100 million in January.
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The Yesh Atid opposition party is once again submitting a version of its "Share the Burden" Bill to the Knesset Law Committee, which would see to draft Bnei Torah to the army R"L.
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An Article from Yeshiva World News
According to data published by the Israel Council for Higher Education in 2017, the number of chareidi students stood at 12,300, an increase of 60% since 2013.
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An Article from Yeshiva World News
Jerusalem City Hall is cracking down on illegal notices being posted around the city known as Pashkvillim.
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Poland has rejected Israel's demand to scrap a bill that would make it a crime to blame Poles for Holocaust-era atrocities.
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An Article from The Algemeiner
A 93-year-old survivor of Auschwitz stunned the viewers of one of Germany's most popular political talk shows on Sunday night when - asked to compare the Nazi era with the situation today - she asserted that the two periods had more in common than many people may care to admit.
An Article from The Forward
he Anti-Defamation League publishes an annual report on incidents of anti-Semitism in the United States.
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An Article from JTA
Two teenagers beat an 8-year-old Jewish boy in suburban Paris in what French prosecutors are calling an anti-Semitic attack.
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An Article from JNS
The Orthodox Union (OU), has established parameters for a three-year period during which the umbrella body for American Orthodox congregations will work to bring its member synagogues who employ female clergy into compliance with OU standards.
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An Article from JTA
"I don't know any Jews who go to temple."
The line is from a remarkably poignant scene in the 2004 film "Garden State," in which Zach Braff's character explains to his love interest, played by Natalie Portman, a few things that most non-Orthodox American Jews know about large suburban synagogues.
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What is Atomwaffen, the Nazi Group Tied to the Murder of Blaze Bernstein?
An Article from The Forward
Samuel Lincoln Woodward, the teenager who was recently charged with the brutal murder of the 19-year-old Jewish student Blaze Bernstein, was an avowed member of a growing American Nazi organization. Continue Reading
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