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The Passion & The Peiros
 

  OUTREACH
 
The Jewish Prince of Persia
 
 
 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING
 
The Re-Wiring of a Former Hollywood Hotshot
 
Massachusetts Madoff Victim Sues Regulator

The New Rules of Branding Your Business Online

What is the UK Public's Opinion of Charitable Investments


NORTH AMERICA 

Alabama Governor Rejects all Non-Christians

Left Wing Rabbis Protest Glenn Beck

Rice: What's Jewish is Israeli, What's Arab is Palestinian

 

 ISRAEL
 
Court: Does Rabbinic Ordination Equal Academic Degree?
 
Orthodox Will Lead Israel by 2030

Yad Vashem, Google Team Up to Archive Shoah Records

Erekat: Obama Has No Credibility in Middle East

MASA Institutes New Controls Following Participant Audit
 

 

INTERNATIONAL
 
Memorial Built at Site of Auschwitz Oven Builders
 
 Hitler's Last Bodyguard Gives Up on Fan Mail at 93
German, Polish Presidents Honor 6 Million

Extreme Right Teens Held for Latvia Jewish Cemetery Attack
 

 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST
 
Reporters Recall Covering Eichmann Trial 50 Years Later
Eichmann Capturer: "I Would Get Him Again"
 
Creator of Neutron Bomb Leaves an Explosive Legacy

 
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R_KarshOpEdThe Passion & The Peiros
An Op-Ed Article
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The finest musician appears, to the casual observer, to be playing effortlessly; but the musician knows that his performance is the result of years of tireless practice. Continue Reading
 


 
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qajarMichaelThe Jewish Prince of Persia
An Article from Aish.com

 
Moshe (not his real name, lest the wrong people read this) looks like any other religious Jewish man in Jerusalem. Continue Reading

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money treefundraisingarticle1The Re-Wiring of a Former Hollywood Hotshot
An Article from
The New York Times

In 2005, when Sherry Lansing resigned as chairman of Paramount Pictures, she might well have opted to keep her hand in the entertainment industry. Continue Reading
 

Fundraisingarticle2Massachusetts Madoff Victim Sues Regulator
An Article from The Boston Globe

Robert Lappin, a Salem businessman and founder of the Lappin Charitable Foundation, is among nine plaintiffs who yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit, alleging negligence by federal securities regulators in the Bernard Madoff case. Continue Reading

Fundraising3The New Rules of Branding Your Business Online
An Article from Inc.

It's no longer enough to have a sleek website, social-media presence, and consistent brand aesthetic online. Continue Reading

Fundraising4What is the UK Public's Opinion of Charitable Investments?
An Article from Charity SRI

When grants or gifts cannot be made directly to a recipient (individual or organization) many times Fiscal Agents are used. Continue Reading

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Gov. BentleyNamart1Alabama Governor Rejects all Non-Christians
An Article from Yahoo News

You can spot a Baptist church from almost any hilltop in Alabama, so it's not hard to find people who agreed with their new governor this week when he said only Christians are his brothers and sisters. 
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Kissinger2Left Wing Rabbis Protest Glenn Beck
An Article from The Washington Post

The rabbis have called on Fox News's owner, Rupert Murdoch, to sanction his two famous employees via a full-page ad in Thursday's editions of the Wall Street Journal - one of many other media properties controlled by Murdoch's News Corp.   Continue Reading

Namart2Rice: What's Jewish is Israeli, What's Arab is Palestinian
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

During closed-door 2008 negotiations, the US affirmed its understanding that the Ma'aleh Adumim and Ariel settlements along with the east Jerusalem Jewish neighborhoods would likely remain part of Israel in any final-status agreement with the Palestinians. Continue Reading
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semichaisrael1Court: Does Rabbinic Ordination Equal Academic Degree?
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

After a preliminary hearing on Tuesday determined that the issue should be handled in the courts, the Jerusalem Labor Court will be deciding over the next few months whether rabbinic ordination should be recognized as equivalent to a bachelor's degree.
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israel2Orthodox Will Lead Israel By 2030
An Article from Arutz 7

While most Israelis worry about a prospective demographic imbalance between Jews and Arabs in the Land of Israel, Professor Arnon Sofer of Haifa University says that there is a more realistic demographic change afoot. Continue Reading

israel3Yad Vashem, Google to Team Up to Archive Shoah Records
An Article from JTA

A joint project between Yad Vashem and Google will make public access to Nazi-era documents and photographs easier. Continue Reading
israel4Erekat: Obama Has No Credibility in Middle East
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

US President Barack Obama has lost all credibility in the Middle East, PA negotiator Saeb Erekat told US envoy George Mitchell in October 2009. Continue Reading

Israel5MASA Institutes New Controls Following Participant Audit
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

The police recently concluded an extended investigation into the alleged fraud of a local yeshiva accused of defrauding the Masa Israel project, Anglo File has learned. Continue Reading
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abinternationalarticle1Memorial Built at Site of Auschwitz Oven Builders
An Article from Ynet News
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A memorial site and educational center to open this week on International Holocaust Remembrance Day documents the role played by a German maker of crematoria in the mass execution of Europe's Jews and others. Continue Reading

internationalarticle2Hitler's Last Bodyguard Gives Up on Fan Mail at 93
An Article from Haaretz

More than 65 years after World War Two, Adolf Hitler's last surviving bodyguard says that he can no longer respond to the continuous deluge of fan mail he receives from around the world because of his advanced age. Continue Reading 


International3German, Polish Presidents Honor 6 Million
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

The memory of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II was honored around the world on Thursday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 
Continue Reading

 
Internationarticle4Extreme Right Teens Held for Latvia Jewish Cemetery Attack
An Article from European Jewish Press

 
"Together, they formed a skinhead group which may have planned additional racial crimes," Ints Kuzis, the head of the Riga regional state police department, told reporters. Continue Reading
 
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eichmannInterestarticle1Reporters Recall Covering Eichmann Trial 50 Years Later
 
An Article from The Jerusalem Post
 

The Eichmann trial, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, changed Israel and the world, journalists said during a special symposium marking International Holocaust Day. Continue Reading
 

Interestarticle6Eichmann Capturer: "I Would Get Him Again"
An Article from Fox News

Holocaust survivors often refer to the "banality of evil" when describing how remarkably ordinary even the highest-ranking Nazis seemed after their capture for aiding the mass murder of more than 6 million Jews during World War II. Continue Reading
 
 
interest2Creator of Neutron Bomb Leaves Explosive Legacy
An Article from The Jewish Week
 

In the 20th century, Jews created bombs. Weapons of mass destruction.Most famously, there was J. Robert Oppenheimer who ran the Manhattan Project, which gave the world the atom bomb. Continue Reading
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