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The High Holy Days will soon be here. Time to start preparing for those festive meals that are part of the holiday celebration. For my mother, this posed a particular problem. My father, who disliked most vegetables, had been a dedicated vegetarian …
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GERALDINE S. FOSTER
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9/11/14
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MyJewishLearning.com – I’m advocating a new angle on heshbon ha-nefesh, “soul’s accounting,” that we do in preparation to the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
This soul work begins with the ancient Greek dictum …
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TSAFI LEV
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9/11/14
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SAN FRANCISCO (MyJewishLearning.com) – Here is a radical proposal for the New Year: Forget the guilt and instead lean into what you love to become the best possible version of yourself.
The liturgy for the Jewish New Year has us taking a long …
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RUTH ABUSCH MAGDER
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9/11/14
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JNS.ORG – Since 2006, the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable and satellite TV network has hosted “The Projected Image,” a month-long showcase examining how different cultural and ethnic groups have been portrayed on the big screen. At last, …
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MICHELE ALPERIN
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9/11/14
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Don’t bring it up. If it comes up, change the subject. If you can’t change the subject, consider an outright denial.
Those are some of the strategies used by Jewish reporters working in the Arab and Muslim Middle East to …
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Ron Kampeas
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9/11/14
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JTA – The trustee charged with recovering funds for victims of Bernie Madoff’s fraud scheme said he will appeal a ruling that would decimate a lawsuit against financier J. Ezra Merkin.
Irving Picard asked a New York bankruptcy court on Sept. …
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9/11/14
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Almost everyone knows that Emma Lazarus wrote “The New Colossus,” the famous sonnet inscribed on a bronze tablet at the entrance to the Statue of Liberty. Already a famous poet in 1883, Lazarus was asked to contribute a poem to an auction to …
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TOBY ROSSNER
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9/11/14
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Germany and the Claims Conference are establishing a $250 million fund for child survivors of the Holocaust.
The fund will provide one-time payouts of approximately $3,280 (2,500 euros) to Jews born in 1928 or later who spent …
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9/11/14
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JTA – A design competition will be held for a memorial in Warsaw to Poles who saved Jews during World War II.
Sigmund Rolat of the Remembrance and Future Foundation announced the competition at a news conference Sept. 8 in Warsaw.
Rolat, a …
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – All women of Ashkenazi descent should be screened from age 30 for the BRCA gene mutation that causes breast cancer, an Israeli study recommends.
The study, by a research team headed by Ephrat Levy-Lahad of Shaare Zedek …
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