“Big Bang” star Mayim Bialik and Tea Party-boosting Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa added their spin this week to an ongoing debate over the Democratic Party affiliations of most …
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By The Jewish Star Staff
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3/26/15
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Rabbi Sacks calls finding allies, especially among Indians, Chinese and Catholics, ‘biggest mitzvah’
Five Towns Jews were charged this week with performing a new mitzvah: Making friends for Jews.
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks suggested that Jews should especially nurture relationships with people …
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By The Jewish Star Staff
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3/26/15
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks will be joined by attorney Benjamin Brafman this motzei Shabbat in a conversation on important contemporary topics.
Billed as an “armchair conversation,” the …
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The Jewish Star staff
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3/19/15
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After trailing in the polls leading up to Tuesday’s Israeli election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party defied those projections with a sweeping victory …
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By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org
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3/19/15
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There is no world leader more hated by bien-pensant, liberals in America and Europe than Prime Minister Netanyahu. Whereas once the bile was directed at former U.S. president George W. Bush—for …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/19/15
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Thirty years have passed since Dani Moshitz, David (Didi) Cohen and Baruch Stern fell in Lebanon in 1985, and we came together with their families to let them know we had not forgotten. Dani and Didi …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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3/19/15
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Last month, in a breathtaking display of anti-Semitism reminiscent of Nazi Germany, members of the student government at South Africa’s Durban University of Technology (DUT) called for the …
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By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, JNS.org
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3/19/15
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There’s a strange phrase that repeats itself several times in this week’s parsha, Vayikra.
“If a person sins … and does one of the commandments of G-d that one is …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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3/19/15
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Aish Kodesh honored local leaders at its 22nd annual melave malka last weekend. From left: Village of Cedarhurst trustee Ari Brown; State Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky; Guests of Honor Leah and Avi …
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3/19/15
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Benjamin Gross of HAFTR is one of five highly innovative Jewish educators who will receive the 4th annual Jewish Education Project Young Pioneers Award presented by the Jewish Education …
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Jewish Education Project
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3/19/15
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