admin | July 21, 2021
It was more than a decade ago when Rabbi Stephen Leon, rabbi to the Bnei Anusim in the American southwest, introduced a resolution at the Conservative movements convention that would have a lasting impact on Judaism worldwide. Rabbi Leon believed that mainstream Judaism had an obligation to welcome the descendants of Spanish Jews who had suffered persecution during the Inquisition. Back then no one could have predicted the turn of events that Rabbi Leons resolution would have
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admin | July 21, 2021
Recho Omondi, right, pictured in 2016, was accused of antisemitism for calling Leandra Medine Cohen, pictured in 2020, a Jewish American Princess.
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admin | July 21, 2021
Kapur frames his story around three couples. After founding Auroville, Blanche Alfassa, a Sephardic Jew born in Paris, becomes known simply as the Mother
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admin | July 21, 2021
One evening in 2001, on a dusty hilltop in the West Bank Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, Rivka Ravitz was bathing her children. She was a 25-year-old mother of four at the timeand the chief of staff for Likud party Knesset member Reuven Rivlin. Her phone rangPrime Minister Ariel Sharon was on the line.
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admin | July 21, 2021
The music will be back at Central Parks Music Haven this summer. For three Sundays in August, the outdoor stage in Schenectady will feature local musicians, like the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra, and some from further afield, like Israeli/Iranian pop artist Liraz. Im thrilled to keep Music Haven on the map this summer and welcome friends and neighbors back to the heart of the park, said Producing Artistic Director Mona Golub,who has produced concerts in Central Park since 1990
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admin | July 21, 2021
Big-ticket Manhattan openings like Dhamaka and Sona have grabbed the spotlight lately, and indeed these places are very good at revealing aspects of Indian cuisine the city hasnt seen before.
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admin | July 7, 2021
Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has urged ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Diaspora not to move to Israel if it means living in a non-Haredi area with secular Israelis who would have a negative impact on their spiritual life. Yosef made the comments during his weekly sermon on Saturday night while accompanied by Rabbi Haim Bitan, the visiting chief rabbi of the Tunisian island of Djerba. The rabbi said he was responding to a "Halakhic conundrum" he was posed during a visit to the Tunisian Jewish community.
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admin | July 7, 2021
Betty White is another celebrity who is shockingly Greek! Credit: Angela George/ Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0 There are many celebrities that have Greek names and speak of their Greek heritage all of the time. However, there are also a bunch of famous people who are of Greek descent that might surprise you! Lets take a look at some of the most famous celebrities that are part Greek. Hank Azaria with a fan in New York
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admin | July 7, 2021
In her aching, confessional Book of Esther, the author Esther David (her original family name was Dandekar) describes attempting to make aliyah via the Law of Return, which gives Jewish people from any part of the world the right to migrate to Israel. She was running away from India and her Bene Israeli community, which maintains the tradition that they are descended from 14 Jewish men and women from across the Arabian Sea who were shipwrecked on the Konkan coastline over 2,000 years ago
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admin | July 7, 2021
SURFSIDE, Fla. President Biden on Thursday offered impassioned remarks in a hotel ballroom filled with the families of some of those who died or remain missing under the rubble of a collapsed condominium building, according to White House officials and those in the room. Mr
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