simmons | August 21, 2017
Email a copy of "Ritual Baths Excavated at Destroyed Great Synagogue of Vilna" to a friend Remains of a newly excavated mikvah that was used by congregants at the former Great Synagogue in Vilna. Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority. JNS.org A team of Israeli, Lithuanian and American archaeologists has unearthed the remains of two mikvahs (ritual baths) used by congregants at the Great Synagogue in Vilna, which is the modern-day capital of Lithuania
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admin | August 21, 2017
Until my early adulthood, I had no family names or faces to connect with the Holocaust. I always assumed that, on my fathers side, any members of his extended Lithuanian family who didnt manage to escape their shtetls for America or elsewhere had become victims of the Nazis.
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richards | August 21, 2017
Now shes in charge of family planning policy.
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admin | August 21, 2017
After Miri Shvimmer, a United Hatzalah volunteer paramedic responded to three life-saving calls in a few hours with Lior Ashkenazi, a fellow United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, she quipped One might say we had a productive day. On Friday afternoon just after 3:00 p.m. the couple responded to an emergency in which an individual jumped off the Kibbutz Galuyot bridge
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admin | August 21, 2017
A leader who portrays himself as one of the persecuted, the target of an incessant witch-hunt by the so-called deep state.
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richards | August 21, 2017
Solar eclipse 370. (photo credit:REUTERS) As millions of Americans gear up for the rare solar eclipse on Monday, rabbis across the spectrum weighed in on the event - and its significance
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richards | August 21, 2017
Getty Images (JTA) Following the death of a pedestrian in what appeared to be a vehicular terrorist attack in Marseille, a leader of the local Jewish community called for the immediate eradication of terrorism. Bruno Benjamin, the president of the local branch of the CRIF umbrella of Jewish communities, wrote the message on Twitter on Monday, shortly after police arrested a man they suspect is connected to the slaying of one woman and the serious injury of another woman in a car-ramming attack that morning.
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richards | August 21, 2017
CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt (Screen capture) Jonathan Greenblatt CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) told MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts on Sunday that the idea of a violent alt-left is a right-wing myth and that there is no equivalency between the violent hate groups of the right and the people who resist them. In response to President Donald Trumps assertion that there are fine people on both sides of the neo-Nazi question, Greenblatt said, There are no fine people among the ranks of Nazis. Then they tried to divert the conversation to the quote-unquote alt-left, but look, there is no comparable side on the left to the alt-right.' The alt-right, he said, are white supremacists who amass with an idea of pushing a nationalist agenda that pushes out minorities based on how you pray, who you love or where youre from
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simmons | August 20, 2017
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- For Diane Gartner Hillman, the new reality of being Jewish in Charlottesville sunk in when she had to leave Congregation Beth Israel through the back door. On any other Saturday, worshippers at the city's lone synagogue would have left through the front and walked without fear to their cars, parked near the statue of Gen
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admin | August 20, 2017
Araceli Velasquez had an appointment with immigration officers, as shed had many times in the past. But this time, she didnt show up
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