In a historic victory for American victims of terrorist attacks in Israel, a jury in Brooklyn federal court found the Jordan-based Arab Bank guilty of knowingly funding Hamas-affiliated individuals …
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By Dmitriy Shapiro, Washington Jewish Week, JNS.org
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10/1/14
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During a recent visit to New York I stayed with friends in Manhattan. Having visited with them numerous times, the doorman in their building knows me. One morning as I was leaving for the day, it was …
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By Rabbi Avi Berman, Executive Director, OU Israel
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10/1/14
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After launching the eScapegoat app last year—allowing users to prepare for Yom Kippur by offloading their sins to a virtual goat, mirroring the ancient repentance …
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JNS.org
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10/1/14
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Herut Shitrid vividly recalls the first Yom Kippur she fasted. She was only 10, but somehow she was able to make it through the whole day.
“I felt proud,” she says nearly two decades …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS.org
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10/1/14
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Students from Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence (pictured) and Midreshet Shalhevet in North Woodmere joined demonstrators near the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center on Sept. 22.
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10/1/14
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The Village of Cedarhurst is introducing hi-tech parking meters on a portion of Central Avenue between Cedarhurst Avenue and Spruce Street. These new meters -— there is one per parking space, …
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The Jewish Star Staff
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10/1/14
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This past Sunday morning, Tzom Gedaliah, nearly 60 women filled the Achiezer office on Central Avenue, to partake in the ongoing community-wide health training series presented by Achiezer and …
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By Achiezer
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10/1/14
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Woodmere-based real estate investment and development firm Basser-Kaufman bought the Peninsula Shopping Center in Hewlett from Shelly Horne of HST Realty for $27 million. The transaction was …
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10/1/14
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An exhibit of photographs by Chie Nishio, an 84-year-old woman of Japanese descent who spent years photographing the Chabad community of Crown Heights, opens this week at the Brooklyn Public …
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10/1/14
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The following are excerpts of the speech given on Monday to the United Nations General Assembly by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Militant Islam and the Nazis
ISIS and Hamas share a …
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10/1/14
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