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Why dont more Jews play sports? In 1911, that question was on the mind of Rabbi Martin Meyer, who favored the moral and physical virtues of a nice outdoor game. While it may be sporadically noted that a Jew participates in athletic events, or [is] a participant in outdoor sports, we anticipate the day when it will be the rule and not the exception, Martin wrote in an editorial in this paper
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admin | July 6, 2022
By Benjamin Kerstein Anyone involved in the discourse on Israel and Zionism is aware that the words as a Jew often presage something distinctly monstrous, such as ferocious denunciations of Israel, Zionism, the Israel lobby, and the pro-Israel American Jewish majority. It would be a mistake, however, to see anti-Zionist Jews as wholly alien to us.
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admin | July 6, 2022
(Photo courtesy of Susan Kristol) Susan Kristol gets to the root of her work, connecting her Judaism to her background teaching Latin and Greek literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Brandeis University. This 68-year-old from McLean said she was raised as a Reform Jew, but became a Conservative Jew because she felt more rooted in the Jewish tradition and liked the Conservative focus on worship. I dont want to criticize anyones choice of what stream of Judaism theyre in
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Of all the signs that the Jewish communitys political influence has waned in New York City, perhaps none has been as stark as the City University of New Yorks frequent spasms of open distaste toward the Jews, many of them Mizrahi, middle class, or foreign born, who attend its dozens of colleges and graduate schools. The CUNY law school faculty unanimously endorsed a student council Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions resolution targeting Israel in May. Those students had also chosen Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of a radical activist group committed to globalizing the Intifada against Israeli Jews and their sympathizers, as one of their commencement speakers.
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admin | July 6, 2022
In time for the upcoming school year, Chabad Jewish Center of Troy is launching a brand-new Hebrew School of the Arts. The school will service preschool and elementary level children to provide them Jewish education in a fun and meaningful way. At the Hebrew School of the Arts we have developed exactly this, said Rabbi Menachem Caytak of Chabad Jewish Center of Troy
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admin | July 6, 2022
Jewish summer camps have a rich history dating back to before World War I. (Photo: Getty Creative) The Jewish summer camp experience has become a beloved summer memory for many Jewish families and communities.
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admin | July 6, 2022
I shouldnt be alive today. That was one of the first things Boris Nayfeld told me when I met him four years ago.
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admin | July 6, 2022
While her German grandfather was incarcerated at Dachau concentration camp by the Nazis, Ye is half Chinese-American, and that led many to reject her as a Jew. When I began rabbinical school is when I observed my first Shabbat, is when I observed my first Rosh Hashana, my first Yom Kippur, my first Passover, she said.
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admin | July 6, 2022
An enamel bowl, on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan, was carried through three concentration camps by the Burbea family from Libya, even serving as a vessel to carry their youngest son to his circumcision when he was born in Bergen-Belsen in 1944. (Museum of Jewish Heritage) By Julia Gergely (New York Jewish Week) A young childs diary, a favorite doll, a cookbook of family recipes, a report card, a Torah scroll smuggled to the United States and a silver spoon found among the rubble at a concentration camp
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admin | July 6, 2022
Guides From grand celebrations of movement forefathers to up-and-comer shows to puppets, heres what to see at the citys galleries and museums this summer.
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