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Fundraising1Natan Announces New Grant Recipients
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy
 
On July 14, I had the pleasure of attending a luncheon in honor of Joshua Venture Group's most recent cohort of talented social entrepreneurs setting out to the change the world through Jewish values and teachings. Continue Reading 

FundraisingTwoBaltimore Woman Fundraises to Build Beit Shemesh Hospital
An Article from CJN

The team behind an ambitious, international fundraising initiative is hoping to fix the fact that Beit Shemesh, a rapidly developing city in Israel, doesn't have a hospital and is outgrowing its health-care infrastructure. Continue Reading
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Namart1Tobin: Dems Tilt Anti-Israel
An Article from Commentary

In the last week, two influential groups issued platforms that demonstrated just how far the left has gone in attacking Israel. Continue Reading 

Kissinger2Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Stop Aid to Israel If Settlement Allowed to Stay
An Article from JTA

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved a resolution calling on the U.S. government to end all aid to Israel if Israel does not stop building settlements and "enable an independent Palestinian state."
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Namart4Trump Complains About Media Bias
An Article from The Washington Post

Donald Trump's always-cranky assessment of the media has been amended a bit this weekend, thanks to a New York Times article reiterating questions about Trump's ability to suddenly emerge from his primary-campaign cocoon as a general election butterfly. Continue Reading 

Namart5As Crown Heights Changes, A Jewish Landscape Diversifies
An Article from The Jewish Week

When Aimee Rubensteen was growing up in a Modern Orthodox community in Broward County, Fla., she never thought that one day she'd be living in Crown Heights. Continue Reading

Namart6Katie Ledecky's Jewish History Surfaces as She Swims for Gold
An Article from The Jewish Week

Katie Ledecky has drive.The Olympic gold medalist recently built on her legacy as the world's best female swimmer in Rio when she simultaneously beat her own world record and picked up a gold in the 400-meter freestyle event. Continue Reading

Namart9Reform Jews, Black Groups Aim to Protect Voting Rights
An Article from JTA

Reform Jews are preparing to kick off a nationwide initiative aimed at facilitating voter participation in the black community and beyond in the 2016 presidential election. Continue Reading

Namart10Obama Administration Provides Clinton's First Line of Defense Amid Scandals
An Article from The Washington Times

Just as stunning as the unending stream of reports of scandal and subterfuge that has come to define Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state is the Obama administration's tireless effort to keep a lid on it. Continue Reading

Lawmakers Slam Obama Administration for $400 Million Payment to Iran
An Article from The Weekly Standard

A chorus of Republican lawmakers condemned the Obama administration Wednesday for secretly sending Iran $400 million in what critics called a ransom payment. Continue Reading

GOP Donors, Fearful of Trump-Fueled Electoral Rout, Direct Big Money Down-Ballot
An Article from The Washington Post

Billionaire Paul Singer was an early and generous backer of Mitt Romney in the 2012 campaign, investing $1 million in a super PAC supporting the Republican presidential nominee more than a year before the election.
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An association of hundreds of predominantly African-American churches in Missouri condemned the recent platform of the Black Lives Matter movement labeling Israel an "apartheid state" and accusing it of genocide. Continue Reading

Israel2Three Times Israel Was Snubbed at the Rio Olympics
An Article from The Jewish Week

If Olympic athletes are any sign of their countries' attitudes, things don't look too good when it comes to relationships between Israel and its neighbors.Continue Reading  
 
Israel3Hacked George Soros Documents Detail Plans to Fight Israel's 'Racist' Policies
An Article from JTA

Hacked emails show that the Open Society Foundations led by Jewish billionaire George Soros have as an objective "challenging Israel's racist and anti-democratic policies" in international forums, in part by questioning Israel's reputation as a democracy. Continue Reading

Israel4Lawsuit Claims US Aid to Israel Violates Nuclear Pact
An Article from JTA

A lawsuit filed in federal court claims that U.S. aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits providing assistance to nuclear powers that do not sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Continue Reading 
Israel5Archaeologists in Israel Find Ancient Synagogue Predating Second Temple
An Article from Haaretz

Two archaeological discoveries made in the Galilee over the summer tell a story that differs from the standard description of the devastation in the country following the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans.
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Intl1The Growth of Progressive Judaism in Barcelona
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

The ancient roots of Judaism in Barcelona are in the foundations and walls of the Sinagoga Mayor, believed to be, so asserts Dyana Z. Furmansky, the oldest synagogue in Europe. Continue Reading

Internatioanl2No, Google Says, It Did Not Delete 'Palestine' From Its Map
An Article from The New York Times

Supporters of the Palestinian cause denounced Google online this week for removing the word "Palestine" from Google Maps, but there was just one problem: Continue Reading

International3Glavin: My, How Far the Anti-Globalization Movement Has Fallen
An Article from Ottawa Citizen

It took a cartoon appearing in the World Social Forum program in Montreal this week that could have come straight from the pages of Julius Streicher's Nazi propaganda tabloid Der Stürmer to provide a fleeting glimpse into just how deeply the rot has spread: Continue Reading
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Donald Trump said he would test would-be immigrants for anti-Semitic beliefs and that Israel would be a key ally in defeating radical Islam. Continue Reading 
 
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A moving film with musical backround of Simcha Leiner singing "Nachamu" from the cd Hadran Alach. Song composed by Rabbi Yosi Lowenbraun. Continue Reading 
  
Interest2Irreversible Damage
An Article from Aish.com
The results of the CT scans and MRIs were conclusive and irrefutable: Raquel, a 31-year-old wife and mother of two lying in a coma had irreversible brain damage due to prolonged oxygen deprivation. Continue Reading

interest2Strength from Love; The Gulag Comes to Houston
An Article from Jewish Media Resources

As we mourn the Bais HaMikdash destroyed because of sinas chinam, it is appropriate to consider its opposite, the mitzvah of v'ahavta l'reicha k'mocha, which Rabi Akiva describes as the "great principle of the Torah." What is the source of the unique quality of this mitzvah? Continue Reading

Interest3Threading the Needle on Black Lives Matter
An Article from The Jewish Week

Last month, in the wake of the murders of five police officers in Dallas at a Black Lives Matter rally, Jewish groups sought to strike a delicate balance between support for law enforcement and for the goals of a movement that has shined a light on police brutality and mass incarceration.
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Interest4The Third Temple is Coming to Your Facebook Feed
An Article from JTA

"It's time to build," reads the tagline of the Temple Institute's latest YouTube video. Continue Reading

Interest7Schmoozing, Shopping and Dining on Pico
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

When I lived in the Pico Robertson area in the late 1960's and the 1970's one could not consider eating let alone dining out on Pico Blvd. Continue Reading
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