The Kutscher resort, one of the remaining remnants of "Jewish Borscht Belt" culture, will be demolished later this month. The Monticello, N.Y. hotel h
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Despite claims by Vladimir Putin that everyone else is blaming the world's woes on the Jews, it appears that videos from the Kremlin's TV station are
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(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel has launched a campaign to have Yom Kippur recognized as an official holiday on the United Nations calendar
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By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- Not every celebrity endorsement is a welcome one. The saga of Los Angeles Clippers own
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Today, the Forward revisits the Pew Research Center survey, which has occupied a great deal of discussion and concern amongst Jewish professionals thr
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – A lot of people around the world hate the Jews. That’s the main finding of the Anti-Defama
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Maramures County in northern Transylvania is opening its first Holocaust education center, The Holocaust Cellar, on Sunday, May 18. The town is the ch
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By Rachel Lerner, JTA World News ServiceNEW YORK (JTA) -- The recent vote by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations rejec
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By Rafael Medoff, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- On the outskirts of Cairo, on a blistering hot afternoon in May 1942, British Army cha
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Canadian Heritage Minister Glover, Foreign Affairs Minister Baird and Multiculturalism Minister Uppal announced this morning the team that will create
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Martin L. Johnson and Olinda Young of Phoenix, Arizona, have generously donated a 250-year-old Torah that was recovered from the Nazis to Virginia Com
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Aram will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on May 17, 2014, at Temple Beth Am in Seattle. Aram is the son of Tamara Dyer and Jon Gould of Seattle and the
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Benjamin will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on May 17, 2014 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue. Benjamin is the son of Michael and Margie Kraft of Redmo
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By Debra Rubin, JNS.org The Shabbat of Memorial Day weekend later this month will mark a first in American Jewish life: Three New York Ci
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By Robert Gluck, JNS.org Dr. Gary P. Zola sees an inextricable connection between American Jewish history, American history, and global
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By Joan Rudd, Special to The Jewish Sound I just spent six weeks gallery-sitting in a Jewish cultural heritage exhibit, for the most part by myself
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By Janis Siegel, Correspondent, The Jewish Sound Although turning 40 is usually a time for review, the theme of the University of Washington St
Read MoreThe rejection of J Street’s application for membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is curious (Presidents C
Read MoreEmily Alhadeff’s reflections (“Court’s decision highlights a bigger problem,” April 25) on the Olympia Food Co-op’s decision to cleanse its shelves of
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By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound columnist 1 “For improving health — and giving hope — to the world’s most vulnerable people,” Celina Schocken recent
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