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OUTREACH

Creating Sabbath Peace Amid the Noise

 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING
The World's Billionaires
Weinberg Foundation$10 Million Grant for Holocaust Survivors
17 Chabad Programs Win Funds in Chase Contest
Jim Joseph Foundation Cutting Wide Path Through Jewish Life
The Education of Jim Joseph

NORTH AMERICA
The Rabbi & The Rabba
Chesed Shel Emes: A Kiddush Hashem in St. Ignace
Why Jews Vote for Democrats
JTS Undergoes Another Round of Layoffs
Confronting History's Longest Hatred

ISRAEL
14 Year Old Takes Rabbinate Exams
JPost Poll:Obama Didn't Sway Israeli Jews
Descendants of Trotsky and Begin Share Passion, not Politics of Forebears
Thousands Attend Funeral of Menora Sisters Killed in Michigan Plane Crash

INTERNATIONAL
Areas of Russia Where Jews were Killed Have Never Recovered
Dutch Police Use 'Decoy Jews' to Stop Anti-Semitic Attacks
French Closer to Admitting that Al-Dura was a Hoax

ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Eating to Live, or Living to Eat?
Fetus Waves at Doctors, Saves Mother
Does Teen Drug Rehab Cure Addiction or Create It?
Women's Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions

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Denver, CO

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Toronto, ONT

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Cincinnatti, OH

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 Ahuvah Gray, a former ordained minister, is coming to America for a lecture tour October 12 through November 18 to promote her new book entitled, "Journey to the Land of My Soul" - An African American woman tells the story of her journey to Judaism and Jerusalem. 
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shabbos tableMichaelCreating Sabbath Peace Amid the Noise
An Article from The New York Times

There are people for whom the Sabbath never went away - Seventh-day Adventists, Hutterites, Jews whose fathers and mothers never stopped walking in the ways of their fathers and mothers.  Continue Reading

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Carlos Selim Halufundraisingarticle1The World's Billionaires
An Article from Frogloop.com

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.

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Fundraisingarticle2Weinberg Foundation $10 Million Grant for Holocaust Survivors
An Article from The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, announced today that it has established a new, five-­-year, $10 million grant to fund emergency services for Holocaust survivors.  Continue Reading

Fundraising317 Chabad Programs Win Funds in Chase Contest
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

17 Chabad-Lubavitch programs across the United States will each receive $20,000 - for a combined total of $340,000 - after finishing among the top 200 charities in the Chase Community Giving competition.   Continue Reading

Fundraising4Jim Joseph Foundation Cutting Wide Path Through Jewish Life
An Article from The Jewish Week

When Interland Corporation Founder Jim Joseph died in 2003, at the age of 68, few people outside San Francisco and the real estate field had heard of him.   Continue Reading

Fundraising5The Education of Jim Joseph
An Article from The Jewish Week

A Holocaust refugee, Jim Joseph emigrated with his parents from Austria as a small child in 1938.  Continue Reading
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scenery Northamericaarticle1Chesed Shel Emes: A Kiddush Hashem in St. Ignace
An Article from Vos Iz Neias

Located 426 miles from Chicago in Makinac County, Michigan, St. Ignace is a popular vacation destination with an area of only 2.7 square miles, almost half of which is covered with water.  Continue Reading

northamericaarticle2The Rabbi & The Rabba
An Article from New York Magazine

"Where is the drumroll?" Rabbi Avi Weiss looked ebullient. He was facing the congregation on a Sunday morning in March of last year, at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, the synagogue he founded nearly 40 years ago. Continue Reading
Namericaarticle3Why Jews Vote for Democrats
An Article from Ynet News

I live in a small conservative town and I am often asked why most Jews vote for the Democrats in nearly all elections.  Continue Reading

Namericaarticle4JTS Undergoes Another Round of Layoffs
An Article from The Forward

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America underwent broad layoffs in late June, despite the chancellor's earlier indication that no further layoffs would be forthcoming.   Continue Reading

Namericaarticle5Confronting History's Longest Hatred
An Article from The Washington Post

It's been called history's longest hatred. The last aging survivors of Auschwitz see everywhere evidence that virulent Jew-hatred did not die in the Berlin bunker with Hitler.  Continue Reading
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An Article from Ynet News

While his classmates spent the summer holidays at the beach or at the pool, vacationing in Israel or abroad, Moshe's focus was on a completely different subject. Continue Reading

israel2JPost Poll: Obama Didn't Sway Israeli Jews
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

US President Barack Obama stepped up efforts to reach out to the people of Israel last week - when he hosted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a positive meeting at the White House and gave his first interview as president to an Israeli television station. Continue ReadingAn Article from The Forward

If only Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky could see what has become of his great-grandson, David Axelrod. The 49-year-old Russian émigré to Israel has adorned his modest living room with a singular-framed photograph. Continue Reading

israel4Thousands Attend Funeral of Menora Sisters Killed in Michigan Plane Crash
An Article from Arutz Sheva

Thousands of people accompanied the bodies of young sisters Rikki and Racheli Menora to rest in the Etz Chaim cemetery in Beit Shemesh on Friday.  Continue Reading
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soviet era buildinginternationalarticle1Areas of Russia Where Jews Were Killed Have Never Recovered
An Article from Jewish Journal

It may seem that every aspect of the Holocaust has been thoroughly analyzed, but three American academicians have opened up a new research field through their five-year study of the long-range economic impact of the extermination of Jews in some areas occupied by the Nazis during World War II.  Continue Reading
internationalarticle2Dutch Police Use 'Decoy Jews' to Stop Anti-Semitic Attacks
An Article from The Telegraph

Lodewijk Asscher, Amsterdam's mayor, has ordered the new decoy strategy to cut the number of verbal and physical attacks on Jews, amid fears that anti-Semitic "hate crime" is on the rise.  Continue Reading

International3French Closer to Admitting that Al-Dura was a Hoax
An Article from Pajamas Media

The al-Dura hoax was first broadcast by France 2 - French public television - on September 30, 2000.  Continue Reading
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foodInterestarticle1Eating to Live, or Living to Eat?
An Article from The Wall Street Journal

It sounds like a Catskills-era joke with a Jewish lawyer in the punchline, but among Jewish leaders it's deadly serious. Why does it cost so much to be Jewish?  Continue Reading

interest2Fetus Waves at Doctors, Saves Mother
An Article from Vos Iz Neias

The Israeli media is trumpeting a new modern miracle from a baby to be. There was one smart yet to be born child waving at the doctors - look there is something wrong.   Continue Reading

interestarticle3 Does Teen Drug Rehab Cure Addiction or Create It?
An Article from Time

"Matt Thomas" (a pseudonym) had only recently begun experimenting with marijuana when he got caught selling a few joints in the bathroom at his junior high school.  Continue Reading

Interest5Women's Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions
An Article from The New York Times

Amid the horrors of the Holocaust, the atrocities perpetrated by a few brutal women have always stood out, like aberrations of nature. Continue Reading
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