admin | May 29, 2022
DJERBA, Tunisia Jewish pilgrims from around the world flocked to the Tunisian island of Djerba in mid-May to visit El Ghriba, the oldest synagogue in Africa, sharing festivities with an ancient Jewish community there that has stood the test of time. Thousands of Jewish worshippers, many from France, Israel and the United States, made their way to the holy site May 19-20 for the annual pilgrimage, part of the Lag BOmer Festival that marks 33 days after the start of the Jewish Passover. Outside of Israel, El Ghriba is one of the most sacred Lag BOmer destinations, said to have been built more than 2 millennia ago when the first Jews arrived to Djerba with a stone from the Temple of Jerusalem
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admin | May 29, 2022
LeBron James likely draws attention at most weddings he attends. After all, the basketball superstar turned entertainment mogul is 6-foot-9 and one of the most recognizable sports figures of all time. But he made an especially eye-catching entrance at a Jewish wedding last Sunday, holding hands with a well-known kabbalist rabbi who served a year in an Israeli prison
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admin | May 29, 2022
Over the course of this week, weve been making the centerpiece of the Jewish Currents Soviet Issuea section comprehensively reconsidering the history of the Soviet Jewry movementavailable online. The seven articles that make up the section can now be found here
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admin | May 29, 2022
A new online concert series will launch on June 1 highlighting celebrated Jewish musicians from around the world. The Secret Chord Concerts is being co-developed by the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the Herb Alpert School of Music, part of the University of California, Los Angeles. The free on-demand video series will feature 15- to 25-minute performances from Jewish musicians who showcase a range of styles, heritages and histories, said the Alpert School of Music in a press release.
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admin | May 20, 2022
A mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y.
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admin | May 20, 2022
PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay (JTA) The upscale Uruguayan coastal resort city of Punta del Este checks a lot of boxes for 18-year-old Argentine Sofia Grosz: gorgeous beaches, vibrant nightlife, a hub for many of her Jewish school friends from Buenos Aires. Coming here, its almost a tradition in our family, said Grosz, who belongs to the famed Hacoaj Jewish sport and community center back home and graduated from a Jewish high school last year
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admin | May 20, 2022
The Jewish Womens Foundation of South Palm Beach Countys annual Granting Wishes reception at the Polo Club of Boca Raton drew close to 200 guests. The JWF of South Palm Beach is a program of the Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation at the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County
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admin | May 20, 2022
(JTA) As Orthodox rabbis, we are devastated by the news that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. If this happens, states will be free to pass laws to prohibit or strictly limit abortion, and approximately 25 of them are prepared to do so or already have.
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admin | May 20, 2022
Yes, the Ace of Cakes can also cook.
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admin | May 18, 2022
Following a weekend of pro-choice rallies that drew hundreds of thousands of people nationwide, several thousand American Jews gathered on Tuesday morning at a rally with a similar message that was organized by the National Council of Jewish Women. The Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice, which capped off NCJWs first in-person conference in three years, had been planned for months well before Politico published a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade earlier this month, and before the weekends events that saw a groundswell of abortion activism.
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