richards | July 5, 2017
A 20-year-old Hasidic woman died of a heroin overdose in Brooklyn last month showing how even an ultra-insular religious community isnt immune to the nations opioid epidemic. Malky Kleins mother discovered her daughter slumped over in bed and frothing at the mouth around 7:15 p.m. June 24 in their Borough Park home, according to police.
simmons | July 5, 2017
Delegation members and participants (from left): Dr. Moshe Shemma, col
richards | July 5, 2017
The following is an edited excerpt of remarks given by Rabbi Lee Buckman during a graduation ceremony at the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. Tonight is the last time you will be sitting together as a class of 2016.
richards | July 5, 2017
Two politicians of Moroccan ancestry will meet in a runoff to lead Israels Labor Party, an unprecedented showdown in the European-rooted movement thats struggled to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu and reclaim its former standing as the countrys defining force. Amir Peretz, a former defense minister and labor federation head, will competeMonday against Avi Gabbay, ex-chief executive officer of Israels biggest telecommunications company, for the chance to head Labors slate in the next national election, scheduled for November 2019.
simmons | July 5, 2017
Start Printed Page 20797 Proclamation 9596 of April 28, 2017 A Proclamation During Jewish American Heritage Month, we celebrate our Nation's strong American Jewish heritage, rooted in the ancient faith and traditions of the Jewish people.
richards | July 4, 2017
The Hindu Modi makes impromptu visit to grave of Zionism's founder The Hindu Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made an impromptu visit to the grave of Theodor Herzl, who is considered as the founding father of Zionism , at the suggestion of his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.
simmons | July 4, 2017
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday visited Israel's Yad Vashem memorial and honoured the victims of the Holocaust, among the greatest tragedies in human history as some six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany. Modi was accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel's largest Holocaust memorial.
richards | July 4, 2017
As Narendra Modi becomes the first Indian Prime Minister tovisit Israel, there is already a strong cultural relationship between the two countries, and something in Delhi itself that is at the very foundation of thecommunity ofIndian-origin Jews in Israel. Barely four kilometres from the Prime Ministers official residence in New Delhi, is the symbol of Jewish existence in India-- the Judah Hyam Synagogue
simmons | July 4, 2017
Synagogue membership 'falls by 20 per cent since 1990', report reveals Jewish Chronicle While the Orthodox middle continues to be squeezed, Charedi communities have more than tripled their share of the synagogue market from four per cent in 1990 to 13 per cent in 2016.
richards | July 4, 2017
Holocaust denial is an attempt to negate the established facts of the Nazi genocide of European Jewry.
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