December 5, 2013 - 2 Teves 5774

OUTREACH

The Jewish Future and Supplemental Hebrew High Schools

Tree of Life

PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Research Shows Those Who Give Feel, and Look, Better

Religious Americans Give More, New Study Finds

NORTH AMERICA

Hate Crimes Undercount Feared

Beit Rabban Pilot to Cap Tuition Costs

Welcoming Russian Jews To Westchester

Non-Orthodox LI Synagogues Ponder Alliance

Sucker Punch: Brooklyn Jews Targeted in 'Knockout' Attacks

Supreme Court to Review Contraceptive Coverage Mandate in Health-Care Law

ISRAEL

At American Studies Association, Boycotting Israel Finds Wide Favor
Struggling Holocaust Survivors in Israel Say Government Must Do More
Remembering Rabbanit Bracha Kapach, Lifeline to Jerusalem's Poor
Subbotnik Jews Make Aliyah

INTERNATIONAL

Could Spreading European Antisemitism Drive Jews From Homelands?

With Mega-Menorah, Dutch Christians Help Jews Come Out of Their Shell

Kosher Slaughter Gets New Hearing in Poland

French Jewish Leader: Concerns of Antisemitism Keeping Jews From Enrolling in Public Schools

Norway's Foreign Minister Vows No Ban on Circumcision

What the Saudis Make of the Nuclear Deal with Iran

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

"I Am Not Orthodox"

World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor Celebrates 100th Birthday

How Sholem Alechem Got an Oklahoma Oilfield Named After Him

Our First Jewish President Lyndon Johnson?

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Jerusalem, Israel

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Los Angeles, CA

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Northbrook, IL

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Lakewood, NJ

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National Director

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Baltimore, MD

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Passaic, NJ

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Baltimore, MD

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Milwaukee, WI

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Baltimore, MD

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Lawrence, NY

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Denver, CO

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Rabbi Avraham Edelstein

Jerusalem, Israel

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Baltimore, MD
Rabbi David Felsenthal
New York, NY

Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman

Baltimore, MD

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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The Jewish Future and Supplemental Hebrew High Schools

An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Supplemental community and congregational Hebrew high schools are key to building a vibrant Jewish future.
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Tree of Life

An Article from The Baltimore Jewish Times

Ever since the Pew Research Center survey on U.S. Jews was published, there have been countless dialogues and debates about how to stop what some have gone as far as to consider a crisis of the Jewish people. Continue Reading

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Research Shows Those Who Give Feel, and Look, Better

An Article from The Wall Street Journal

The holidays are here, and in the coming weeks you'll see your mailbox fill with plaintive requests from every imaginable charity and nonprofit cause. Continue Reading

Religious Americans Give More, New Study Finds

An Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The more important religion is to a person, the more likely that person is to give to a charity of any kind, according to new research released today. Continue Reading

Hate Crimes Undercount Feared
An Article from The Jewish Week

Jews were the targets of far more religion-based hate crimes than any other group in 2012, according to just-released statistics from the FBI. Continue Reading

Beit Rabban Pilot To Cap Tuition Costs
An Article from The Jewish Week

As parents struggle with the rising costs of a full-time Jewish education, one Manhattan school has announced a pilot program to help address that need. Continue Reading

Welcoming Russian Jews to Westchester
An Article from The Jewish Week

For Alina Beygelzimer, attending a Shabbat dinner is more than a pleasant ritual. Continue Reading

Non-Orthodox LI Synagogues Ponder Alliance
An Article from The Jewish Week

Although a Reform congregation has a licensing agreement to use space in a Conservative synagogue in central Nassau County, both congregations are studying the idea of developing formal ties. Continue Reading

Sucker Punch: Brooklyn Jews Targeted in 'Knockout' Attacks
An Article from JTA

Chava, a student at a Chabad seminary, has lived in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for six years, but it's only in the past few days that she started carrying pepper spray in her handbag. Continue Reading

Supreme Court to Review Contraceptive Coverage Mandate in Health-Care Law
An Article from The Wall Street Journal

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider a new challenge to President Obama's Affordable Care Act and decide whether employers with religious objections may refuse to provide their workers with mandated insurance coverage for contraceptives.

At American Studies Association, Boycotting Israel Finds Wide Favor
An Article from JTA

For 90 minutes in a packed hotel conference room in the heart of Washington, Israel was the colonizer, the settler state, the perpetuator of apartheid.

Struggling Holocaust Survivors in Israel Say Government Must Do More
An Article from JTA

Breakfast costs Dov Jakobovitz $2. Lunch costs him $2.25. Both are served in the public old-age home in south Tel Aviv where he lives. But the food is not to his liking.

Remembering Rabbanit Bracha Kapach, Lifeline to Jerusalem's Poor
An Article from JTA

It may not have been until she won the Israel Prize in 1999 that most of Israel learned of the remarkable works of Bracha Kapach, a diminutive old woman who ran a charity that helped thousands out of her Jerusalem home. Continue Reading

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Subbotnik Jews Make Aliyah
An Article from Ynet News

Ariel and Moriah Shishlenikov, residents of the southern Russian village of Vysoky, have left behind the members of their community - the Subbotniks - and immigrated to Israel. Continue Reading

Could Spreading European Antisemitism Drive Jews From Homelands?
An Article from The Forward

As the gnashing of teeth about the fate of American Jewry in the wake of the Pew Research Center survey continues, a newer and far more troublesome study of European Jewry ought to keep the supposed problem of defining Jewishness by the food you eat and the jokes you tell in some sort of perspective.

With Mega-Menorah, Dutch Christians Help Jews Come Out of Their Shell
An Article from JTA

In a windswept parking lot near the North Sea shore, Klaas Zijlstra stands motionless as he admires his latest creation.

Kosher Slaughter Gets New Hearing in Poland
An Article from The Forward

The Polish Constitutional Tribunal has accepted for review an appeal by the Polish Jewish Community on the delegitimization of shechitah. Continue Reading

French Jewish Leader: Concerns of Antisemitism Keeping Jews From Enrolling in Public Schools
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Most French Jewish parents enroll their children in private schools because of anti-Semitism, a leader of France's Jewish community said.
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Norway's Foreign Minister Vows No Ban on Circumcision

An Article from The Jerusalem Post

The government of Norway will not ban the ritual circumcision of newborns, Norwegian Foreign Minister B�rge Brende assured the Simon Wiesenthal Center in a letter sent last week. Continue Reading

What the Saudies Make of the Nuclear Deal With Iran

An Article from The Atlantic

So, how are the Saudis reacting? That's the question on many people's

lips now that world powers have arrived at a nuclear deal with Iran.

"I Am Not Orthodox"
An Article from The Jewish Week

I am not Orthodox. There. I said it. Yes, I look like I am. I have a full beard, I am the rabbi of a traditional synagogue and don't eat anything not kosher.

World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor Celebrates 110th Birthday
An Article from The Forward

Alice Herz-Sommer, the Czech pianist and Theresienstadt concentration camp survivor, celebrated her birthday on November 26th.

How Sholem Alechem Got An Oklahoma Oilfield Named After Him
An Article from The Forward

Sholem Alechem, Oklahoma! The name of an oil field several miles out of Ardmore, Okla., is a puzzle to local residents.

Our First Jewish President Lyndon Johnson?

An Article from 5 Towns Jewish Times

A few months ago, the Associated Press reported that newly released tapes from US president Lyndon Johnson's White House office showed LBJ's "personal and often emotional connection to Israel."
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