admin | July 7, 2021
Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has urged ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Diaspora not to move to Israel if it means living in a non-Haredi area with secular Israelis who would have a negative impact on their spiritual life. Yosef made the comments during his weekly sermon on Saturday night while accompanied by Rabbi Haim Bitan, the visiting chief rabbi of the Tunisian island of Djerba. The rabbi said he was responding to a "Halakhic conundrum" he was posed during a visit to the Tunisian Jewish community.
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admin | July 7, 2021
Betty White is another celebrity who is shockingly Greek! Credit: Angela George/ Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0 There are many celebrities that have Greek names and speak of their Greek heritage all of the time. However, there are also a bunch of famous people who are of Greek descent that might surprise you! Lets take a look at some of the most famous celebrities that are part Greek. Hank Azaria with a fan in New York
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admin | July 7, 2021
In her aching, confessional Book of Esther, the author Esther David (her original family name was Dandekar) describes attempting to make aliyah via the Law of Return, which gives Jewish people from any part of the world the right to migrate to Israel. She was running away from India and her Bene Israeli community, which maintains the tradition that they are descended from 14 Jewish men and women from across the Arabian Sea who were shipwrecked on the Konkan coastline over 2,000 years ago
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admin | July 7, 2021
SURFSIDE, Fla. President Biden on Thursday offered impassioned remarks in a hotel ballroom filled with the families of some of those who died or remain missing under the rubble of a collapsed condominium building, according to White House officials and those in the room. Mr
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admin | June 29, 2021
(JTA) Until a 13-story building inexplicably collapsed in the middle of the night, placing the whereabouts and lives of 159 residents in doubt, few gave Surfside, Florida, very much thought before last week. The town was, after all, a South Florida misnomer. Theres no surfing
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admin | June 16, 2021
Re: June 14 Council meeting; item A-1, exclusionary resolution 2021-R Dear Members of the Culver City City Council, Please read my remarks into the record, which Im writing as an individual member of the Council of the City of Beverly Hills, one of the only Jewish-majority cities outside of Israel, and a city which itself has a past history of exclusion and restrictive covenants towards Blacks, Jews and other groups. Jew-hatred is a form of racism. Jew-hatred, also sometimes pseudo-scientifically called antisemitism, is likely the oldest, most atavistic and most pathological form of racism, not unlike a virus which has been constantly mutating for over two millennia
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admin | June 14, 2021
NEW YORK, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Jewish Communal Fund (JCF) of New York, the largest and most active Jewish donor advised fund in the country, approved nearly $700,000 in charitable grants to Jewish charities through its endowment, the JCF Special Gifts Fund. This funding will be earmarked to meet increased food needs for low-income New Yorkers; provide Jewish summer camp scholarships for children significantly impacted by COVID-19; create a therapy center for preschoolers with special needs; and provide funding for capital improvements to local day camps. The JCF Special Gifts Fund Committee selected the grantee charities with the assistance of UJA-Federation of New York
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admin | June 14, 2021
Interior Minister Arye Dery on Thursday distanced himself from recent remarks made by his fellow ultra-Orthodox politicians calling into question presumptive Prime Minister Naftali Bennetts religious observance and painting him as a danger to the Jewish character of the state of Israel. We are all Jews, no matter what kind of kippa (we wear), and no one has the right to say who is not. That isnt my style, Dery, who leads the ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Shas party, said during an interview with Army Radio on Thursday morning.
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admin | June 14, 2021
Those looking for a primer or a refresher on Israeli history will find precisely that in director Jonathan Grubers documentaryUpheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin. Gruber focuses on the life of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to recount the history of Israel and its place in a very volatile region. As prime minister, Begin shepherded Israel through some of its most hopeful and horrific moments
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admin | May 25, 2021
An overwhelming majority of American Jews, about 83 percent, share the same basic demographic profile but there are signs that American Jewry is growing more diverse.
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