Jewish American Heritage Month

simmons | June 27, 2017

A historic Upper West Side synagogue is breaking with centuries of tradition telling interfaith couples to goy ahead and tie the knot in its sacred sanctuary.

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admin | June 27, 2017

June 25, 2017 10:00 PM By HadasKuznits PHILADELPHIA (CBS) A summer food program starts Monday at Rodeph Shalom Synagogue for kids who rely on their free school lunches to eat. The program is expected to fill more than just their bellies. Rodeph Shalom rabbi Eli Freedman says there is a real childhood hunger problem happening in the Spring Garden neighborhood where the synagogue is located

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admin | June 27, 2017

The Zemun Synagouge was home to a rock and live music club during the 60s. Photo: Goran Boroja Few traces are left of the Jewish synagogues that were present in Belgrade before the outbreak of World War II.

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admin | June 27, 2017

A primer on the 50-year war that has divided Diaspora Jewry and Israel's religious hegemony Its the second holiest site in Judaism.

Category: Jewish Heritage Month | Comments Off on Israel’s Western Wall Crisis: Why Jews Are Fighting With Each Other Over the Jewish Holy Site, Explained – Haaretz
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richards | June 27, 2017

PewAs Gay Pride month draws toward a close, a new poll by the Pew Research Center suggests the fight over same-sex marriage in the United States is over. This is not Roe v. Wade 2.0

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admin | June 27, 2017

Israeli politicians rushed to condemn their governments decision Sunday to freezea plan promoting pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall.

Category: Jewish American Heritage Month | Comments Off on Decaying relations with Diaspora yield bold words in Israel, but little action – Jewish Journal
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simmons | June 27, 2017

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (AP/Steven Senne) (AP/Steven Senne) Facebook will not block Holocaust-denying content on its platform in countries where it remains legal, saying it is merely the expression of an opinion.

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simmons | June 27, 2017

briskets_and_blunts/Instagram Mohammed Sarsour with his boss, Sruli Edelman, an Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jew. What happens when the brother of a staunchly anti-Israel activist works at a wildly popular kosher barbecue joint? At first, nothing.

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simmons | June 27, 2017

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) - Born into one of New York's most gender-segregated societies, Yisrael Stein was one of 13 kids in a Hasidic Jewish family.

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richards | June 27, 2017

Jewish Chronicle Don't write off the Ashkenazim Jewish Chronicle Judaism is a Middle Eastern religion again, with Israel now the engine of our world religion.

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