By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) -- For the tour guides that lead visitors through the Van Ostade Housing Proje
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By Rabbi Will Berkovitz, Special to the Jewish Sound (RNS) On the eve of the Day of Atonement, the story goes, when the house was quiet, the tailor
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee asked the U.S. Department of Education to insure that college programs re
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Read MoreKudos to the Samis Foundation for the amazing work it is doing (“Samis allocations sustain the community, locally and in Israel,” Sept. 19). Although
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound The next three years at the Stroum Jewish Community Center look something like this: A lot more arts pr
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound They sleep in their cars, they crash with friends and family, they give up their pets. The
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Art Spiegelman has a hard time explaining his new production. It’s “somewhere between inte
Read MoreYou and Your Genes — genetic screening Sunday, November 16, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. One in four Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of at least one in 19 genetic d
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By Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent Nearly 50 years after the late Morris Piha opened his commercial real estate company, Morris Piha Rea
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October 8, 1925–September 17, 2014 Marian Lyle Rivkin Zak, age 88, of Mercer Island, passed away peacefully in her sleep on September 17, 2014. She w
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By Jon Bridge and Carol Gown, Special to The Jewish Sound This summer was hard for any supporter of Israel. As members of New Israel Fund’s local l
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Temple De Hirsch Sinai took a programming risk with Rosh Hashanah this year and it paid off — big time.
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By Justin Coskey, Special to the Jewish Sound I recently had the opportunity to interview Daniel Cohen, an active young adult in the Jewish communi
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service ARIEL, West Bank (JTA) -- The small cardboard box in Elyashiv Drori’s palm looks like it’s full of black pebbles
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- For approximately a half hour at the beginning of her El Al Israel Airlines flight last week f
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – In a strategic shift, the New Israel Fund is arming itself with a set of sharp political to
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(JTA) -- President Obama in Jewish New Year greetings spoke of a challenging past year and new hope."As Jews across America, Israel, and the world gat
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