The post-Flood world should have been one in which mankind felt chastened and humbled before the Almighty, having just survived near universal decimation. Moreover, logic would dictate that they …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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11/3/16
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President Donald Trump paid extended tribute to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel in a speech to the World Jewish Congress.
Given via prerecorded video at the opening dinner of …
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By JTA
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4/23/17
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Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States, responsible for 22.5 percent of American fatalitißes. Only heart disease is more deadly.
In Israel, cancer is the No. 1 …
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By Ben Hartman for JTA
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6/21/17
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During the nine troubling days leading up to Tisha B’Av, we mourn our latest victims in the Holy Land as well as our Temple.
Unrest, purportedly related to the installation of metal …
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By The Jewish Star
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7/26/17
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The Jerusalem Post published this editorial on Tuesday:
Israel has been a bipartisan issue in U.S. politics, at least since Democratic U.S. president Harry Truman recognized the world’s only …
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By The Jerusalem Post
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9/30/17
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The landlocked East African country of Uganda has become the 100th country to welcome a permanent Chabad-Lubavitch presence.
In October, Rabbi Moishe …
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Chabad.org
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11/22/17
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The Oslo Accords? “Killed,” the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says.
The Israeli prime minister says the Palestinians are now “unmasked.”
Notably, the …
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Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA
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1/19/18
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Six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire has launched a line of kosher-for-Passover Israeli wines.
The 6-foot-10 former player, who returned earlier this month from a trip to the Jewish …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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3/14/18
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A decade ago, relatively few people in Russia knew about Sobibor, the smallest-scale facility of the six killing centers that the Nazis built in occupied Poland.
This relative obscurity persisted …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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5/16/18
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WASHINGTON — On the heels of actress and activist Alyssa Milano’s remarkable statement indicating that she plans to boycott the upcoming 2019 Women’s March because of its …
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Commentary by Guila Franklin Siegel
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11/21/18
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