A survey released Monday offers data backing up the argument that anti-Israel activity — by student groups, academics, and advocates of the Boycott, …
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By Paul Miller, HSC News Service
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3/16/16
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Eight academic departments recently invited Jasbir Puar to Vassar College to talk about “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters.”
The Rutgers University associate professor of …
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By Ziva Dahl
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3/16/16
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We all know, at the very least, the bare bones story of Israel’s 1948 Independence War: the UN partition plan that the Arab nations rejected, the ensuing war in response to said rejection, the …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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3/16/16
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Sarah Kalter, second-grader at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, uses iTaLAM, the iPad/Chromebook-based Ivrit program that works with traditional TaLAM Ivrit …
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3/16/16
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Incumbents Ronald Lanzilotta and Myran Zisman won the first contested Cedarhurst trustee election since 1989 on Tuesday, defeating insurgents Daniel Burg and Yoel Goldfeder.
Village voters cast …
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The Jewish Star
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3/15/16
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Sefer Vayikra begins with a call from G-d to Moshe: “G-d called to Moses, speaking to him from the Communion Tent.” In a celebrated gloss, Rashi, basing himself upon Midrash Rabbah, …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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3/15/16
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How does the opening of the book of Vayikra, which we begin this Shabbat, relate to us today? Our service is not the Service of the Temple, it does not include sacrificial lambs and goats and …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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3/15/16
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A lady passing a young boy on the street noticed he was entranced by a pair of shoes in a store window. “My, but you’re in such …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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3/15/16
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Perhaps among one of the greatest Jewish theologians in the United States today is Rabbi David Fohrman of Woodmere. His writings about the story of Purim will be the main focus of this …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/15/16
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Reports continue to surface about the rise of cases of the mosquito-born Zika virus in South America, and the associated birth defect microcephaly, which is characterized by …
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By Alina Dain Sharon
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3/10/16
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