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RABBINIC AUTHORITIES
HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky
HaRav Yaakov Perlow
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Rabbi Ilan Feldman
Atlanta, GA
Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr. Richard Horowitz
Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh
Northbrook, IL
Dr. David Lieberman
Lakewood, NJ
Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun
National Director
Rabbi Shlomo Porter
Baltimore, MD
Mr. Jeff Schachter Esq.
Passaic, NJ
Mr. Frank Storch
Baltimore, MD
HaRav Michel Twerski
Milwaukee, WI
Mr. Jerry Wolasky
Baltimore, MD
ADVISORY BOARD
Mr. Mark Bane
Lawrence, NY
Mr. Jonathan Beren
Denver, CO
Dr. Robert Edelman
Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Avraham Edelstein
Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Michael J Elman
Baltimore, MD
Rabbi David Felsenthal
New York, NY
Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman
Mr. Joseph Friedman
Olney, MD
Mr. Harvey Hecker
Toronto, ONT
Mr. Stephen Rosedale
Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Simcha Scholar
Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Dovid Refson
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr Gary Torgow
Detroit, MI
Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD
Teaneck, NJ
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 A Brownstone for Young Jews
An Article from The Jewish Week
One recent afternoon at UJA-Federation's Manhattan headquarters, three-dozen young Jewish lay leaders spent a few hours discussing how to allocate $200,000 in philanthropic funds. Continue Reading
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Amid Portland's Jewish Population Surge, Community Leaders Lure the Young and Hip
An Article from JTA
Jessica Bettelheim, a business ethics lecturer at Portland State University and a young Jewish mother, has little time to spare on weekends.
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From Church Choir to Jerusalem, a Couple's Interfaith Journey
An Article from JTA
One Christmas eve, as Jews across the country headed for Chinese restaurants, I found myself in a church choir. Continue Reading
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A fervently Orthodox yeshiva in Lakewood, N.J., has been recommended to receive $10.6 million in public grants as part of a $1.3 billion higher-education construction package submitted to the New Jersey State Legislature Monday.
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 Bomb Threats Called in to Houston Synagogues
An Article from JTA
Two Houston synagogues received bomb threats.
The bomb threats were called in to Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue, and Congregation Or Ami, a Conservative synagogue, on Wednesday afternoon. Continue Reading
An Article from Ynet News
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 BBC Pulls Documentary Claiming Story of Jewish Exodus from Jerusalem is a 'Myth'
An Article from Haaretz
An Israeli-born filmmaker is slamming the British Broadcasting Corp. for pulling his documentary on the Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Continue Reading
An Article from The Jerusalem Post
The head of a Hungarian anti-racism group said far-right soccer fans shouted "Sieg Heil" and attacked him, breaking his nose days before the country is due to host the World Jewish Congress.
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Controversy in Berlin Over Street Names
An Article from The New York Times
When city authorities asked the Jewish Museum here to propose a name for the cobblestone square outside its new education center, museum officials promptly suggested Moses Mendelssohn.
Google Switches to 'Palestine' An Article from The Forward At least on Google, it's Palestine. The company made waves this week when it changed the geographic tagline for the Palestinian version of its search engine, Google.ps, to read "Palestine" instead of "Palestinian Territories," Foreign Policy reported. Continue Reading
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 'Being Jewish Meant Being Dead': Holocaust Survivor's Jewish Secret for 70 Years
An Article from The National Post
There is a list of horrors rattling around inside Mary Gale's head. The 86-year-old tells me the story of her life, starting from the happy beginning as a girl growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Lodz, Poland, a family that, like so many other Jewish families would be torn apart by the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Respecting Volunteers' Time
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy
Jewish communal organizations and synagogues recruit volunteers for a variety of assignments from serving on boards of directors to providing direct service to clients. Continue Reading
School Choice, the Government, And You
An Article from Hamodia
As Jews, we assume a myriad of financial obligations in order to ensure that we live in accordance with the tenets of our faith.
The Story of Dr. Mengele's Delivery Girl
An Article from The Jerusalem Post
At 85, Leah London Friedler still has a beautiful face and a charming, almost cheeky smile. Continue Reading
David Arenberg Reflects on Being Jewish in State Prison
An Article from Southern Poverty Law Center
David Arenberg had everything going for him. He was smart, the son of a research scientist and a teacher. He graduated in 1980 from the elite University of Chicago with a degree in psychology, and went on to become a left-wing tenants' rights organizer in New York City for seven years. Continue Reading
A Traditional Jewish Approach to Homosexuality An Article from Ner Le'Elef by Rabbi Avraham Edelstein Many gay people, faced by the impenetrable wall of the prohibition against homosexuality, just give up on Judaism. Continue Reading |
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