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18 min ago | J

Israel in the Gardens | Shifting gears, career women find midlife calling as artists

Adi Braeman was a fashion designer in Israel, creating patterns and supervising production in a small kibbutz factory near Caesarea.

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2 hrs ago | National Public Radio

To 'Fill The Void,' A Choice With A Personal Cost

Among the ultra-Orthodox world of Tel Aviv's Haredi Jews, Rivka and her daughter Shira are confronted with a dilemma after a death in the family.

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Related Topix: Fill the Void, Religion, Orthodox Church, Israel, World News, Middle East

3 hrs ago | Foreign Policy

Retired high-ranking Chinese official asks why Jews are so smart

During a speech on Tuesday in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told his audience that the Jews "have contributed greatly to America.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Religion

4 hrs ago | Intermountain Jewish News

Jewish groups join tornado relief effort

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, announced Tuesday, May 21, that his organization will collect donations and distribute them to the American Red Cross and others on the ground in Oklahoma.

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Related Topix: Religion, Oklahoma, Wedding

6 hrs ago | Arutz Sheva Israel News

Hareidi MKs Vow to Fight Enlistment Plan

Hareidi Knesset Members are up in arms over the recommendations for enlistment of young hareidi men to the military, which are to be approved by the government in its next session.

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Related Topix: Religion, Israel, Middle East, World News

6 hrs ago | Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

New grad finds her leadership niche with USY

It would be easy to say, "Like father, like daughter." Or, you could say she's following in the footsteps of her older sister.

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Related Topix: Religion, American University, Des Moines, IA

9 hrs ago | Animal

Williamsburg Hasids Use Beards to Reach "Hipsters"

Perhaps inspired by the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn's recent forays into so-called "hipsterdom," a Jewish group has launched a campaign called "Unite the Beards," aiming to bring Williamsburg's hairy masses closer to Hasidic Judaism.

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13 hrs ago | Iol.co.za

25 000 guests at Jerusalem wedding

There was standing room only in Jerusalem on Monday night as the heir to one of the most important Jewish ultra-orthodox families was married.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Religion, Orthodox Church

15 hrs ago | Forward

Rabbis Demand End of Boy Scouts Gay Ban

More than 500 rabbis and cantors urged the Boy Scouts of America to drop its ban on homosexual members when the youth group's National Council convenes in Dallas this week.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Counterpunch

The Last of the Semites

Jewish opponents of Zionism understood the movement since its early age as one that shared the precepts of anti-Semitism in its diagnosis of what gentile Europeans called the "Jewish Question". What galled anti-Zionist Jews the most, however, was that Zionism also shared the "solution" to the Jewish Question that anti-Semites had always advocated, ... (more)

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New Jersey Jewish News

NJ rabbis witness melee at the Kotel NEW

When Amy Small joined the Women of the Wall at the Kotel on May 10, she was not expecting a set of experiences that ranged from the joyous and spiritual to the scary and stomach-churning. That morning, she was among some 400 women - many wearing tallitot and kipot - who arrived at the Kotel to observe Rosh Hodesh, or the new moon service, and to ... (more)

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Jerusalem Post

MK Stern's bill on chief rabbi panel passes hurdle

MK Elazar Stern's bill to expand the electoral committee for appointing chief rabbis passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset on Wednesday, 53- 14, following a stormy debate on the issue in the plenum.

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Jerusalem Post

LA elects first Jewish mayor since 1878

This city chose Eric Garcetti as its first elected Jewish mayor in one a number of political contests on Tuesday that reflected the city's diversity, as well as its numerous variations of Jewishness.

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Related Topix: Religion, Israel, World News, Middle East, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County, CA

Israellycool

Book Alice Walker Finds To Be "Amazing" Not Just About Reptilian Space Beings

Yesterday, I posted about author and Israel hater Alice Walker's fondness for the theories of conspiracy theorist David Icke, namely his belief that the world is being controlled by the shape-shifting hybrid descendants of reptilian space beings from the constellation Draco.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Life, Hobbies, Conspiracy Theory, Religion, Palestinian Territories

Arutz Sheva Israel News

Chrisians Beautify Their Palestinian Nightmare

Palestinian Arab Christians have chosen to support the side that wants to destroy Christianity.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Israel, World News, Middle East, Roman Catholic Church, Religion

Jerusalem Post

'Us VP Biden lauds Jewish drive for gay rights'

US Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday night lauded the influence of Judaism on the United States, specifically mentioning the efforts of Jews on gay rights issues, according a report on the Politico website.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, US Politics, US News, Joe Biden, Religion

Rotten Tomatoes

Re-emerging: The Jews Of Nigeria

THE IGBO: JEWS OF NIGERIA? Several years ago, the Internet was introduced into the more rural parts of southeast Nigeria.

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Tue May 21, 2013

Jerusalem Post

Israel, Zionism and the Diaspora: Secular challenges to Israel's Law of Ret...

"Under the 1970 Knesset amendment to the Law of Return refuge is available to the: " child and a grandchild of a Jew , the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew" Introduction: The debate over Israel as Zionist is most visibly represented by haredi anti-Zionism. But there is also a secular effort to ... (more)

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Jerusalem Post

Former IDF chief rabbi to head new religious services post

Former IDF chief rabbi Brig.- Gen. Avichai Rontzki has been appointed to head up the new Directorate for Jewish Identity, which has been created within the Religious Services Ministry.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Likud (Israel), Religion, Orthodox Church

Chicago Reader

'This is not a Holocaust story, this is a war story': The life of Hannah Senesh

"In the end," says curator Louis Levine of his latest exhibit, dedicated to the life of the poet Hannah Senesh, "this is not a Holocaust story.

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