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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Yiddishkeit (Jewish feelings, attitudes) was front and center for participants at the eighth annual National Jewish Retreat in Alexandria, earlier this month.
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Patricia Raskin
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8/30/13
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PROVIDENCE – Benjamin Amundson is a young man with a message – a message board, that is.
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Arthur C. Norman
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8/30/13
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WARWICK – Temple Am David is partnering with the PJ Library to bring your family even more programming through our Shalom Friends program. PJ Library is a program of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island in partnership with the Harold …
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8/30/13
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BOSTON (JTA) – Shofars, apples and honey, make room for pomegranates, couscous and pumpkins.
The new crop of children’s books for the High Holidays opens a world beyond the beloved traditional symbols of the New Year. This year, Rosh …
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Penny Schwartz
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8/16/13
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NEW YORK (JTA) – A deep spiritual life is hard to find. While opportunities abound for spiritual connections (meditation, retreats and the like), it doesn’t come easy for most of us. The noise, the unfinished to-do lists and the distractions of …
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Dasee Berkowitz
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8/16/13
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Nineteen verses tell the story of the Binding of Isaac – read in synagogue each Rosh Hashanah – but there are hundreds, if not thousands, of commentaries on it.
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Rabbi Jack Riemer/JNS.org
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8/16/13
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NEW YORK (JTA) – In 5773, the religious wars just would not go away.
In Israel, elections that extended Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister delivered big wins to two anti-Orthodox-establishment upstarts, Yair Lapid and Naftali …
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Uriel Heilman
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8/16/13
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As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like …
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Rafael Medoff /JNS.org
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8/16/13
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During the Holocaust years, there was only one march in Washington, D.C., to plead with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to rescue Europe’s Jews. As the 70th anniversary of that remarkable demonstration approaches, the protest is finally …
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Rafael Medoff
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8/16/13
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PROVIDENCE – When Rabbi Michelle Dardashti moves to Providence this month for her new job as associate chaplain for the Jewish community at Brown University and rabbi of Brown RISD Hillel, she adds another city to a long list of residences.
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Susan Youngwood
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8/16/13
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