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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 eJewish Philanthropy
The Jewish Education Project is now accepting applications for the inaugural Generation Now Fellowship for senior professionals in the teen engagement field.
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An Article from eJewish Philanthropy
The Jewish Women's Foundation of New York is accpeting applications from start-up organizations that are based in the New York Metropolitan area or organizations with a national focus with a portion of programming focused in New York.
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When I was growing up, my mom subscribed to Ladies Home Journal, and I used to find it around the house and sometimes read with curiosity a regular feature called "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" (I later learned it was considered the best-known column in any American magazine at the time.)
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Ever since the Seattle Hebrew Academy was damaged by an earthquake in 2001, Jewish and non-Jewish religious groups have been trying to get the Federal Emergency Management Agency to grant repair funds to houses of worship hit by natural disaster.
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As a group of well-wishers waved tiny Israeli flags and shouted "Welcome home," Diane Hewitt of Hoboken, New Jersey, stepped off the El Al jet that had just flown her to Tel Aviv from New York, cradling her 8-year-old blind beagle, Annie, in her arms.
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An Article from The Algemeiner
Palestinian Authority (PA) schoolbooks remain devoted to systematically demonizing Jews and brainwashing generations of Palestinian children to support terrorism, according to a new study
from the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
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An Article from The Algemeiner
Israel published on Sunday a blacklist of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) organizations whose members and leaders will be prevented from entering the country.
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Ambassador Friedman: Palestinian Reaction to Killing of Rabbi Shows Why There Is No Peace
An Article from JTA
The U.S. ambassador to Israel blamed the Palestinians for the lack of peace with Israel in the aftermath of a shooting in the West Bank that killed an Israeli man. Continue Reading
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Three years ago, Israel came close to assassinating Soleimani near Damascus, al-Jarida quoted unnamed source as saying, but the Americans tipped off the Iranians against the background of intense disagreement between Washington and Jerusalem.
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JTA doesn't give out Person of the Year honors, but if we did I'd be tempted to nominate Michael Kadar, the Israeli-American teenager accused
of making hundreds of bomb threats against Jewish community centers in early 2017.
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An Article from JTA
The mother of a neo-Nazi who co-runs the white supremacist website Daily Stormer and said Jewish children "deserve to die" has Jewish relatives on both sides of his family.
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An Article from JTA
Four current and former flight attendants have filed a federal lawsuit against Delta Air Lines alleging that the company's management has "an anti-Jewish, Hebrew and ethnic Israeli attitude."
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An Article from The Jewish Week
An Article from The Forward
After having been caught one too many times talking to boys and smoking cigarettes behind Feltzer's Pharmacy, my father corralled his fifteen year old daughter (me) and explained that even though we were Jewish, I was on my way to Catholic school.
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Georges Loingers Simple Game of Catch
An Article from Tablet
The children were standing on the French-Swiss border, near Geneva. A tall blond man threw the ball toward the borderline, and the children ran to catch it. Continue Reading
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