Jewish American Heritage Month

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(JTA) - As Mary Jane Rein prepared to publicly exit her role as executive director of Clark Universitys Holocaust center, she attended a local fundraiser for Catholic schools. After 20 years, she was leaving her job at Clark on bad terms. A member of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Ph.D.

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(JTA) As Mary Jane Rein prepared to publicly exit her role as executive director of Clark Universitys Holocaust center, she attended a local fundraiser for Catholic schools. After 20 years, she was leaving her job at Clark on bad terms

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Fred Neulander, the former senior rabbi of a Cherry Hill synagogue who promised to pay $30,000 for two hitmen to kill his wife so he could pursue an affair with a local radio personality, has died. Neulander was found nonresponsive by correctional police officers Wednesday in an infirmary unit where hed been housed in New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, according to a statement released Friday afternoon by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Staff immediately administered CPR and applied an automated external defibrillator, then transported Neulander by Trenton EMS to Capital Health Regional Medical Center

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(April 17, 2024 / JNS) Jews have always been fond of answering one question with another. In fact, Golda Meir was once asked by a journalist, Why do Jews always answer one question with another question?

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(JTA) Yakira Galler, a first-year student at Barnard College, has had trouble sleeping.

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WASHINGTON (JTA) Shortly after Hamas Oct.

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admin | April 20, 2024

The Passover Seder is always a night of questions.

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admin | April 20, 2024

My dear friend Jerri Livingston died peacefully in her sleep at home on April 3 at the age of 72. She and I had a been entwined in one anothers lives for 59 years

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admin | April 20, 2024

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report

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admin | April 20, 2024

Judaism is famous for its dietary restrictions, but Passover takes it to another level by prohibiting the consumption or even any benefit derived from hametz. But while this is universal among observant Jews, there is another restriction that is far more divisive and continues to this day: kitniyot.

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