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No, it isn’t nearly as rare as “Thanksgivukkah,” the once-in-75,000-years overlap of the first day of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving Day that took the Jewish world by storm in 2013. But this year’s 13-month Hebrew calendar isn’t an annual …
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Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org
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3/13/14
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JTA – An accused Nazi war criminal is unfit to stand trial, a German court ruled.
Hans Lipschis, 94, who allegedly was an SS guard at Auschwitz, suffers from dementia and will not understand what transpires at his trial, the court in Ellwangen …
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3/13/14
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On March 5, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of H.R. 938, the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014. The legislation, authored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen …
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3/13/14
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Bill Richardson, the former U.N. ambassador known for his efforts to release American captives overseas, called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard immediately.
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12/19/13
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(JTA) – Cuban Jewish leaders who met with Alan Gross said the imprisoned American-Jewish contractor “was in better spirits.”
Havana community President Adela Dworkin and vice president David Prinstein met with Gross on the last day of …
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12/19/13
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled plans to speak in person to the biennial meeting of the Union for Reform Judaism. The announcement was made Tuesday, a day before the start of the conference, which was scheduled …
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12/19/13
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If anyone ever faults you for playing poker, tell them this story. It happened in the 1930s in the Philippines. The Frieder brothers – Alex, Philip, Herbert and Morris – wanted to cut costs by relocating their cigar business from Manhattan to …
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Irina Missiuro
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12/5/13
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In 2010, Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, part-Jewish museum director, art critic and dealer for the Nazis, who died in a car crash in 1956, attracted the attention of customs agents when he boarded a train from Munich to …
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Irina Missiuro
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11/22/13
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Quite independently, in early October, Bernice and Dick Kumins and Mel and I made arrangements to travel to the Ukraine for a Viking River Cruise titled, “Footsteps of the Cossacks” a cruise from Odessa to Kiev on the Dnieper River.
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Pat Blake
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11/22/13
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During the 1980s, the Jews of Ethiopia began leaving Africa for Israel in the thousands, and at present very few remain in Ethiopia. Their emigration to Israel has involved many challenges, including having to transition from village life to life in …
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Shai Afsai
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10/25/13
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