admin | February 29, 2020
NEW YORK (JTA) On Sunday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced via tweet that he would not be attending the upcoming AIPAC policy conference in Washington, D.C., accusing the pro-Israel lobby of being a platform for bigotry. His statement came one week after his campaign released a video about how Sanders is proud to be Jewish and a month after a four-minute video with similar themes
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admin | February 29, 2020
Dina Thomas as Esther in Theatre Js production of The Wanderers.
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admin | February 29, 2020
A Kiryas Joel man incarcerated for 19 years for financial fraud may leave prison five years ahead of schedule under a new law that makes him eligible for home confinement when he turns 60 in September. Mordechai Samet, arrested with other suspects in an FBI roundup in 2001 and charged with leading several fraud schemes, appears to have overcome a major drawback to early release: the prospect that he would then be deported back to his native Israel.
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admin | February 23, 2020
The lawyer for a former Hasidic couple suing the province for failing to make sure they got a seculareducation says the judge hearingtheir case has an opportunityto help children attending religious schools today by urging the government to act. The plaintiffs, Yohanan and Shifra Lowen, want Quebec Superior Court Justice Martin Castonguay to issue a declaratory judgment. They're seeking to compelthe province to take additional steps to ensure children attending religious schools receive an adequate secular education
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admin | February 21, 2020
Books coverage is supported by a generous donation from Anne Germanacos.
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admin | February 21, 2020
The judge in the East Ramapo voting-rights trial accused a key witness of lying on the stand Thursday, leading the school districts lawyer to suggest that the case was all but lost and sending it into uncharted territory as testimony is slated to wrap up soon.
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admin | February 21, 2020
MIAMI With its boarded-up facade eerily lit by a round Miami Beach moon, the Ocean Terrace Hotel looks abandoned. But when the blank metal doors swung open on a recent February evening, history suddenly came to life
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admin | February 21, 2020
The funny, insightful, and mysterious new drama is the fourth by Ziegler produced by Theater J The Wanderers by Anna Ziegler begins performances in the renovated Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center on February 19, 2020 and continues through March 15, 2020. Theater Js DC premiere will be directed by Amber McGinnis
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admin | February 21, 2020
A bochur was kvetching to a shliach at a farbrengen is a perfect sentence, rules the Oxford English Dictionary, which recently added a number of Jewish terms and words. By Anash.org writer The Oxford English Dictionary recently includes a selection of Yiddish terms and words, the Times of Israel reported, with some entries not particularly complimentary, such as bagel a derogatory and offensive word in the US for a Jew. We reflect, rather than dictate, how language is used which means we include words which may be considered sensitive and derogatory
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admin | February 19, 2020
Amid a rise of antisemitism, the New York City Commission on Human Rights is launching an ad campaign in support of the Jewish community. Reaching out: The campaign, which will run in several Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish print publications and online, seeks to reassure the Jewish community that the city is committed to combating antisemitism and religious harassment in the wake of recent antisemitic violence. We will lift up and celebrate the diversity of Jewish communities, work to build a foundation of compassion and understanding between neighbors, and remain engaged in these communities to foster trust and healing, Carmelyn Malalis, the commissions chair, said in a statement
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