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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 The Forward
But today, donations by Israelis
represent almost half of the 17 billion NIS that funds the Israeli nonprofit sector.
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An Article from JTA
She was young, Jewish and the founder of a nonprofit organization that aids deprived children in Southeast Asia.
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Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, is awash in small-town trappings: tree-lined roads, rolling lawns, and street signs at every corner.
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Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny Davis confirmed in an interview Sunday that he has a personal relationship with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite, and said he isn't bothered by Farrakhan's position on "the Jewish question."
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The news that HRH Prince William is going to visit Israel is to be wholeheartedly welcomed.
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Three years ago, Shaul de Malach had no problem joining fellow educators from his country on a trip to former Nazi death camps in Poland.
An Article from The Forward
The bus parks on a cobbled hill.
We exit into the milling crowd and pass through a gateway in a corrugated metal wall, painted in vertical blue and white stripes, under the watchful eye of a rifle-toting guard.
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Why Jellyfish Have Become Such a Sucky Problem for Israel
An Article from The Forward
Securing Israel's energy security is no easy feat. But engineers are now having to put up with a new threat to the nation's power grid: the nomad jellyfish.
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Israel to Build 'Jewish Disneyland' with Rides Designed by Rabbis
An Article from The Forward
The American company ITEC is planning a theme park, based on Jewish values, that it says will rival the Magic Kingdom and Harry Potter World, according to Yediot Achronot. Continue Reading
Chareidi Woman Takes First Place Among Israelis in Jerusalem Marathon
An Article from The Yeshiva World
Tens of thousand participated in the 8th Jerusalem Marathon this past erev Shabbos, including Beatie Deutsch, a Chareidi resident of the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, who came in first place for women among Israelis. Continue Reading |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Jews or other minorities might have been behind attempts to interfere in the 2016 American presidential elections.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council is where some of the world's most brutal regimes go to praise each other, whitewash their rights records, and take potshots at democracies-Israel, especially.
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An Article from The Forward
The Anti-Defamation League recently released the results
The CEO of Britain's Football Association has apologized for saying that the Star of David, is just as "divisive" as the Nazi swastika
and Soviet Hammer and Sickle.
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An Article from The Times of Israel
In March 1968, a student revolt crushed by Poland's baton-wielding police was used as a pretext for an anti-Semitic purge by the communist regime.
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An Article from The Forward
The Orthodox Jewish community is often characterized as being obsessively ritualistic, pious and insular.
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