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Email a copy of "Israeli Chief Rabbi Stunned by Alleged Blacklist of 160 Diaspora Rabbis" to a friend Rabbi Yehoshua Fass (left), co-founder of the Nefesh BNefesh aliyah agency, with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau. Photo: Courtesy of Nefesh BNefesh. JNS.org At a time of heightened tension between Diaspora Jewry and the State of Israel over religious issues, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate sought to distance itself from a controversial alleged blacklist of 160 Diaspora rabbis.
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admin | July 12, 2017
Marriage contract (ketuba), ring (Flash 90) Kfar Chabad residents complained recently that their rabbi does not allow qualified residents to perform marriages which take place in their town. After residents complained their local rabbi forbade other rabbis to perform marriages, attorney Yaron Huberman turned to the Religious Services Ministry's legal adviser and insisted he get involved. "I was recently informed of a situation in which a couple who wished to marry in Kfar Chabad, which is under the jurisdiction of the Lod Valley Regional Council, suffered severe embarrassment and abuse," Huberman wrote.
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admin | July 12, 2017
JTA Carmel Shama HaCohen, Israels ambassador to UNESCO, is second to none in his admiration for the Trump administrations United Nations envoy, Nikki Haley. In fact, hed like to clone her
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richards | July 12, 2017
Jeanette Chawki, far right, teaches League of Kitchens workshop participants how to cook Lebanese food. (Josefin Dolsten) NEW YORK (JTA) Several times a month Jeanette Chawki welcomes a handful of strangers into her Brooklyn home
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admin | July 12, 2017
A vandal was caught on surveillance video last week drawing more than two dozen swastikas in freshly poured concrete in front of a New York City building whose owners are Jewish. The concrete was poured Friday on the sidewalk outside a building in Brooklyn. The building's street surveillance camera captured a young man spending 35 minutes drawing nearly 30 swastikas in the still-wet cement early Saturday.
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