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Sunday is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Any serious student of history will recognize that there are moments, all too rare, when a door stands open, waiting for a person, a people, or …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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4/20/17
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When Mark Rosenblatt touched down at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on April 5 and powered on his cell phone, he got the surprise of his mobile technology life.
Rosenblatt received a text message …
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By Karen McDonough, JNS.org
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4/20/17
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Looking through the barbed wire of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 14-year-old Nanette Konig could barely recognize her friend and classmate from Amsterdam, Anne Frank.
Both girls had been …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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4/20/17
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JUMP, a national program run by NCSY, offers teens skills-training, along with the opportunity to demonstrate on-the-ground leadership by creating projects and programs in their schools and …
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4/20/17
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The HANC Boys’ Torah Bowl Team was named Division Champions for the third consecutive year. Heading into the playoffs, the team was in first place with an 8-3-1 record. All the team needed was …
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4/20/17
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Manhattan Day School held its 74th Annual Scholarship Dinner on April 2.
“We witnessed an incredible outpouring of love, gratitude and good wishes for Rabbi Mordechai Besser as we …
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4/20/17
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Sixth graders at the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst worked on a collaborative project in English and Social studies class, which culminated in an Egypt Fair.
Each girl was given a topic …
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4/20/17
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At first glance, The New York Times’ hiring of another white, Jewish male opinion-page columnist is anything but news.
But the arrival of Bret Stephens, formerly the foreign affairs …
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By Ben Sales
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4/20/17
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Two students at Yeshiva Har Torah students in Little Neck — sixth grader Eden Eini and seventh grader, Zachary Kalker — have qualified as National Finalists for the Chidon HaTanach, an …
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4/20/17
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Human history is filled to the chronological brim with episodes of a welcome peace, and bloody wars. Each has its reason for existence and each fills the pages of history with murder and heroism, …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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4/16/17
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