December 3, 2015   -  21 Kislev 5776 

   

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Chanukah Resources 

 

OUTREACH

The Adele Sensation 

 

 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING

Program-Directed Donation: Giving Small Nonprofits a Chance to Grow

 

NORTH AMERICA

What Obama Did and Didn't Say About Ezra Schwartz 

US Teen's Murder Posing Dilemma for Modern Orthodox
 De Blasio Support Plummets Among Jews 

Police Nab Alleged Heroin Addict in Shooting of Kiryas Joel Teen 

Column One: Lessons From the Pollard Saga  

Top Homeland Security Officials Brief Hundreds of Jewish Groups 

The US Will Tighten Its Entry Policy in Light of Terror Wave  

           

ISRAEL

INTERNATIONAL

John Bolton: To Defeat ISIS, Create a Sunni State  

Argentine Rabbi Tapped as Government Minister  

New Kosher Supermarket Opens in Berlin Despite Security Concerns 

The Left's Ideas Deficit Strengthens Islamists 

Obama Won't Fight the Islamic State 

 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

Addicted to Distraction  

Einstein Once Kept Kosher, And 7 Other Jewish Facts for Relativity's 100th B-Day

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outreachOutreach
Outreach1The Adele Sensation
An Article from Aish.com

The British singer-songwriter Adele is immensely talented, beautiful, and staggeringly successful. She's also become a cultural phenomenon. Continue Reading
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Donors want choices. And they want to know where their money goes when they give. Continue Reading
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NAmericaNorth America
An Article from JTA
 
How the Obama administration has handled last week's murder in the West Bank of Ezra Schwartz, an 18-year-old from Sharon, Massachusetts, on his gap year in Israel, has raised painful questions among Jewish Americans upset by his senseless death. Continue Reading

Kissinger2US Teen's Murder Posing Dilemma for Modern Orthodox
An Article from The Jewish Week

For Modern Orthodox Jews this week, an irresistible force - their passionate love of the Jewish state - is running headlong into an immoveable object - their deep concern for the safety of their children pursuing Torah studies in an increasingly dangerous Israel.
  
Namart4De Blasio Support Plummets Among Jews
An Article from The Jewish Week

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio jumped on a plane last month to make a 48-hour solidarity trip to Israel amid the wave of Palestinian knife, car and shooting attacks. Continue Reading 

Namart5Police Nab Alleged Heroine Addict in Shooting of Kiryas Joel Teen
An Article from The Forward 
 
New York State Police have charged 25-year-old Matthew Bauman for Tuesday night's shooting of a Kiryas Joel teen at a local kosher convenience store. Continue Reading

Namart6Column One: Lessons From the Pollard Saga
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

Even before the dust settled on last Friday's happy headlines proclaiming that after 30 years in federal prison, Jonathan Pollard was being released, we discovered that his release wasn't the end of his sad saga.

Namart7Top Homeland Security Officials Brief Hundreds of Jewish Groups
An Article from JTA

Top Department of Homeland Security officials advised Jewish communities to initiate or review security maintenance in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Continue Reading

Namart9The US Will Tighten Its Entry Policy in Light of Terror Wave
An Article from Jerusalem Online
Two weeks after the series of terror attacks that shook Paris, the United States announced that it is introducing changes to its entry policy into US territory. Continue Reading 
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IsraelIsrael
An Article from Arutz 7

Egyptian security sources revealed on Friday that they found an iron underground attack tunnel leading from Gaza into Sinai, marking the first time that such a tunnel has been unearthed.
Continue Reading

israel2CNN Posts Middle East Map That Doesn't Show Israel
An Article from JTA

CNN posted a map on its website that replaced Israel with "Palestina."  Continue Reading
  
Israel3The Disappeared Yemenite Babies
An Article from Tablet 
 
Reluctantly, Salame Ozeri opens the door to her small apartment in the back of a plain stucco building in Hadar Yosef, a working-class community in Tel Aviv. Continue Reading 
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An Article from The New York Times 
 
America is debating how to respond to the terrorist attacks in Paris. Continue Reading
 
An Article from JTA

Argentine lawmaker Rabbi Sergio Bergman was tapped to serve as minister of environment and sustainable development.
Continue Reading 
 
 
Despite security concerns, Berlin is about to get a new kosher supermarket. The Daily Markt in the Charlottenburg district adds an option to those already existing in Berlin. Continue Reading
This weekend, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates took to Twitter with a question. "All we hear of ISIS is puritanical and punitive," opined the Grand Dame of American letters. Continue Reading

International4Obama Won't Fight the Islamic State
An Article from Commentary

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It's been more than two weeks since the terrible attacks in Paris. And what has been the response? Continue Reading
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Interest1Addicted to Distraction
An Article from The New York Times
  
One evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. Continue Reading

Interest2Einstein Once Kept Kosher, and 7 Other Facts for Relativity's 100th B-Day      
An Article from The Jewish Week 
  
Wednesday marks the centennial of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, a discovery that forever revolutionized the study of gravity, space and time. Continue Reading 
   
interest2Kate Middleton Effect Brings Frum 'Fascinator' Hats to Synagogue
An Article from The Forward

The so-called "Kate Middleton effect" - by which anything the Duchess of Cambridge wears becomes an instant best-seller - seems to know no bounds. Continue Reading 

Interest3Holocaust Survivor George Weidenfeld Bankrolls Rescue of 2,000 ISIS Victims
An Article from The Forward

British Jew who fled Nazi-ruled Austria as a child is funding the rescue of up to 2,000 Middle East Christians. Continue Reading

Interest4Thanksgiving Dinner, With a Side of Cholent
An Article from Tablet

Across New York City this Thanksgiving, hundreds of soup kitchens will serve thousands of free meals to people in need. Continue Reading   
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