Our columnist writes about her grandmother, Miriam Harris Goldberg, who passed away Jan. 8 at the age of 100. Miriam Goldberg was editor and publisher of the Denver-based Intermountain Jewish News …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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1/25/17
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Ask a large enough group of Israelis who they think of when asked to think of a Jewish leader, and someone will come up with Menachem Begin. A leader of the Jewish underground Irgun in pre-state …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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1/25/17
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Birthright trips — the 10-day Israel tours offered free to young Jews — are so much part of mainstream culture that they have been copied by other religions, parodied …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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1/25/17
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WASHINGTON — On Jan. 18, 2015, Argentine terrorism prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head in what was almost certainly murder, not suicide. Whoever murdered …
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Commentary by Toby Dershowitz and Gardner Lange
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1/25/17
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NAHARIYA, Israel — On the morning of July 18, 1994, Hana Cohen headed from her apartment to the nearby AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires to run an errand. Edith Szerman Kogos walked to a bank …
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By Hillel Kuttler, JTA
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1/25/17
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Right after my first daughter was born, I was talking with a good friend who mentioned that I looked like I had it all together. That I looked so happy. …
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By Nurit Siegal
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1/25/17
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My last article ended with my husband Jerry and I in Miami before boarding our cruise to the Western Caribbean. The weather was beautiful and onboard we relaxed, read and ate for the first few …
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By Judy Joszef
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1/25/17
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Brazilian Jews rarely require excuses for combining their love for a good party with their other great passion: red meat.
Weddings, bar mitzvahs, britot — even funerals — all serve as …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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1/25/17
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Remember John Howard Griffin’s 1961 book “Black Like Me,” about a white journalist who posed as an African-American in order to experience what life was like for blacks …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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1/25/17
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Manhattan Day School students were on a mission: To read as many pages as they could and raise as much money as possible for Moshav Beit Meir, a community in Israel destroyed by terrorist …
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1/25/17
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