The go-to community resources organization in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway emphasized its all-emcompassing scope on Sunday night, filling the former BestBuy space in the Bar Harbour Mall with 1,700 supporters under the banner, “Just One Call.”
Achiezer Founder and President Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender said …
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By The Jewish Star
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3/1/17
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More than 1,500 potential olim attended New York's annual aliyah “mega event” on Sunday.
The day-long Nefesh B’Nefesh fair, at John Jay College on Mahattan’s West Side, addressed the range of opportunities and challenges …
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By Ed Weintrob
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2/27/17
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Five Towners rooted for a hometown hero last Thursday, as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held its confirmation hearing for ambassador to Israel-designee David Friedman, a Woodsburgh resident. …
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2/24/17
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The book is large and fits comfortably on a lap. The color photographs nearly fill each page. Each image depicts real people doing everyday Jewish things — a young girl eating matzah ball soup; …
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By Lisa Keys, JTA
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2/24/17
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The hate speech trial of a prominent French historian charged with calling Arabs innately anti-Semitic is dividing French Jews and sowing dissent within the local equivalent of the Anti-Defamation …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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2/24/17
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On June 27, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver, handed down a decision that would make history a year later when it was upheld by the Supreme Court: Closely held …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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2/24/17
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One-hundred-two members of the Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport this week, brought on aliyah by Shavei Israel.
The new immigrants all hail …
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2/24/17
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The morning after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first official meeting with President Donald Trump, multiple headlines proclaimed Feb. 16 that the two-state solution—whereby …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/24/17
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