admin | February 21, 2021
February may be Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (JDAAIM), however, for Jewish National Fund-USA (JNF-USA) every day is filled with improving the quality of life for people with disabilities. The organizations focus is on services strategically located in the Negev and the Galilee to serve populations beyond the crowded Tel Aviv-Haifa-Jerusalem corridor. We believe that the inclusion of people with disabilities and special needs should be woven tightly into the fabric of Jewish life; all the more so in Israel, says Yossi Kahana JNF-USAs Director of Disability Programs
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admin | February 21, 2021
Back in the year 321, Cologne, then the capital of the Lower Germanic province of the Roman Empire, inspired an official edict that marks the earliest evidence of Jewish life in Germany. When the Cologne City Council wanted to repair a dilapidated bridge but lacked the financial means, a Jew named Isaac wanted to help out
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admin | February 12, 2021
Maariv, Israel, February 4 Since the European Court of Justice ruled last December on kosher slaughter, newspaper headlines have claimed that the EU bans kosher slaughter and outlaws Jewish religious practices, signaling that Jews are no longer welcome in Europe. But this is explicitly untrue. Under current EU law, kosher slaughter is allowed, but national government bodies are given wide discretion regarding the need to bridge the gap between animal welfare and the preservation of religious freedom
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admin | February 12, 2021
The COVID-19-spurred lockdown was the push Naamah Segal Karas needed to become more observant. I started trying to keep Shabbat in 2018, and we became more observant in 2019, but that was a very hectic year, she said.
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admin | February 12, 2021
Dean-Paul Stephens|Times-News The Jewish faith needs to expand its reach, believes Elon University Rabbi Sandra Lawson.
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admin | February 12, 2021
Noa Katzover does not seem like the typical student of spoken Arabic. An organizational consultant, she lives in what she calls the City of David, and most call the Arab neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem
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admin | February 9, 2021
Pitcher Josh Wolf, 20, was drafted by the New York Mets in 2019 as the 53rd pick-the highest ever from St.
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admin | February 9, 2021
From sex work and rape, to being a lesbian loving a feminist man, to being disabled and a motherless orphan, Andrea Dworkin smashed through the barriers before her as only the most radical revolutionary feminist would, and Martin Duberman has given this to her: her due. (@JohnStoltenberg / Twitter) Of all the luminaries that graced second-wave feminisms, Andrea Dworkin was certainly one of the most verbally abused and perhaps the most misunderstood. In some ways, she was also most bravedespite Robin Morgans sweet pet name for her as cream puff and her personal horror of bugs.
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admin | January 24, 2021
Civil right has many avenues.
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admin | January 24, 2021
As Jerusalem basks in the peace deals signed in September, a surge of curiosity about Israel in parts of the Arab world is creating a buzz online. Traffic to Arabic-language social media pages run by Israel has rise by 40 percent since its normalisation agreement with the United Arab Emirates. Before the Abraham Accords, it was 70 million views a month, but now it got much bigger, to 100 million, Yonatan Gonen tells Jewish News, adding that recent agreements with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco have also contributed to traffic
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