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ITS been an exciting start to the year for thousands of Jewish students enrolled in public primary and high schools in Sydney, with the NSW Board of Jewish Education (BJE) updating its range of Judaism and Hebrew education programs, and introducing some new ones.
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Harold Bonavita-Goldman, 79, formerly of Philadelphia, the one-time president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, and before that the president and CEO of Jewish Family and Childrens Service of Greater Philadelphia, died Saturday, Feb. 5, of cancer and COVID-19 at Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck, N.Y. A prolific fund-raiser, inspirational mentor, and entertaining dinner party raconteur, Dr
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Please join us for The Ritchie Boys: How Jewish Refugees Helped Win World War II with Dr. David Frey, founding director of the Center for the Holocaust at West Point.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio The Youngstown Area Jewish Federation is announcing a rebranding of its senior living offerings and launch of a new website atYAJF.org/seniorliving. Eric Murray, executive director of senior services, said the new branding and website better highlight the offerings of Senior Living by Youngstown Area Jewish Federation.
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More than 200 members of Chicagolands Jewish community gathered Monday night to pray for peace in Ukraine and raise money for humanitarian efforts. We know we cant change how a war goes in a practical sense, but we can change things in a spiritual sense, said Rabbi Yochanan Posner, who helped organize the gathering at a hotel ballroom in Skokie. We believe God is listening and gets involved in human events, said Posner, who is part of Lubavitch Chabad, an international Jewish organization that is represented in 35 cities across Ukraine
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The General Encyclopedia (Di Algemeyne Entsiklopedye) was a Yiddish language publishing project created in Berlin, Paris, and New York from 1932 to 1966. It was begun optimistically in Berlin to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Russian-Jewish historian Simon Dubnow, who would be murdered in the street by Nazis in Latvia just over a decade later. Initially planned as an all-embracing reference work, the encyclopedia became a record of the Holocaust and focused on preserving European Jewish culture that had disappeared during the war years.
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Mar 7th 2022 by Alexander Clapp Milla Kirishun had plenty of opportunities to leave Ukraine before last week, she tells me by way of introduction: This is not how I planned on doing this. Kirishun is a small, delicate woman with oversized brown glasses and a tuft of grey hair. For nearly 80 years she watched the Jewish community of Bila Tserkva, her hometown, trickle away.
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If you planned a bar or bat mitzvah or a wedding in the last two years heck, if you were simply invited to a celebration for a couple months down the road you can probably empathize with Riva Gambert, director of the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival. For a brief, bright window back in the early fall of 2021, with vaccines widely available and the delta variant waning, the EBIJFFs return to theaters for its annual March shindig seemed likely. As the deadline approached to book cinemas, however, the pandemic took another turn for the worse.
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...The Flood Warning is extended for the following river inIndiana...Illinois...Wabash River....The Flood Warning continues for the following river in Indiana...Illinois...Wabash River..Ongoing and renewed flooding will continue or develop alongportions of the East Fork White, White, and Wabash Rivers over thenext 24 to 48 hours and beyond. River stages are rising again due tothe one to over two and a half inches of rain received from Saturdaynight through this morning
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