When 3,000 North American Jewish leaders convened in Israel this week for the Jewish Federations of North America’s 2023 General Assembly, they intended to reflect their “eternal love for …
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By Menachem Wecker, JNS
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4/26/23
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As tourist season returns to Israel, there are many options to enjoy, but the best ones make you feel good inside and out. Hikes are good exercise, and Israel has amazing restaurants and spas, but …
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By Judith Segaloff, JNS
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4/3/23
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Every time 17-year-old Adrian Maydanich passed grocery-store shelves overflowing with kosher-for-Passover food in his Baltimore community, he stopped in his tracks. He could not stop thinking of …
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By Howard Blas, JNS
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3/29/23
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The 3,697 US antisemitic incidents the Anti-Defamation League recorded in 2022 represent a 36% increase over the 2,717 it tracked in 2021 and “the highest number on record since ADL began …
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3/29/23
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How can such a thing happen? How could it come to this, that Jewish young men should ransack and burn homes and cars? …
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3/1/23
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In what might have been the largest Jewish women-only gathering in the world, some some 4,000 shluchos, Chabad women emissaries from more than 100 countries, gathered in and around Crown Heights last …
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By Faygie Holt, JNS
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2/15/23
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Mitchel Aeder has begun his term as the 18th president of the Orthodox Union, succeeding Mark (Moishe) Bane, who served as OU president for the past six years.
Aeder was unanimously elected at the …
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1/18/23
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Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, recently wrote in Religious News Service that according to “Israeli law, non-Muslims may go up to the Temple Mount …
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Commentary by Rabbis Natan Tzvi Brinn and Yehuda Levi, and Dr. Milissa Jane Kronfeld
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1/11/23
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Children with serious illnesses and their families got into the Chanukahspirit this past Sunday at Chai Lifeline’s annual party for the holiday. …
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12/14/22
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The Jewish National Fund-USA has announced what it calls its largest project yet.
At its national conference earlier this month, the organization shared plans to establish the World Zionist …
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By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS
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12/7/22
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