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Why I love Jews by choice
The first conversion I ever performed as a rabbi was for a 45-year-old father of two who was in the final stages of liver cancer.
Opinion: Beinart’s 1% crisis
One of the more brazen initiatives in the Jewish world today is Peter Beinart’s call, in his book “The Crisis of Zionism,” to boycott anything produced in the Jewish settlements of Judea and Samaria (commonly known as the West Bank). In his view, the settlements must be stopped because they are encroaching on a future Palestinian state that is necessary for the survival of a Jewish and ...
David Bezmozgis, Holocaust survivor win lit awards for debuts
A book of poetry by an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor and first-time writer has won the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award.
Fegelson-Young Jewish War Veterans Post finds a new home on Pond Street in Bristol Borough
BRISTOL BOROUGH - The Fegelson-Young Jewish War Veterans Post 697 has a new, permanent home for the first time since the organization sold its Woodbourne Road headquarters two years ago.
Newton volunteer program brings comfort to doctors and patients alike
Ruth Mandel hopes that when an aspiring young doctor or a cancer patient squeezes one of the miniature red cloth hearts she sewed recently, it will give them comfort on a rough day. Mandel, a resident of the Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly’s Coleman House in Newton, has been sewing “feelie hearts” for Harvard Medical School students and Dana Farber cancer patients for eight years.
Top Marks!
Britain's Jewish leadership this week underwent a seismic shift, with Mitzvah Day founder Laura Marks becoming senior vice-president of the Board of Deputies.
Sound Check: Acoustic music will be on the menu at Jewish Mother Deli in Hampton
Scotty Miller, who runs the Jewish Mother restaurants in Virginia Beach and Norfolk, said last week he’s spreading his sandwich, beer and music empire to the Peninsula.
Acoustic music will be on the menu at Jewish Mother Deli in Hampton
Scotty Miller, who runs the Jewish Mother restaurants in Virginia Beach and Norfolk, said last week he’s spreading his sandwich, beer and music empire to the Peninsula.
Obama's preference for talks with Iran faces test
President Barack Obama's preferred path to end the Iranian nuclear standoff faces a stern test this week when world powers sit down with Iran in another bid to press it to meet international demands to prove it is not trying to develop nuclear weapons. Failure will strengthen calls for military action.
Fired for being "too hot," New Jersey woman claims
(Reuters) - A New Jersey woman said on Monday that she was dismissed from a temporary job at a New York lingerie warehouse because her male employers felt she was too busty and dressed too provocatively for the workplace. Wearing a form-fitting sequined black dress and black leather, sequin-studded boots, Lauren Odes, 29, said her Orthodox Jewish employers at Native Intimates told her that ...
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