By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Ibrahim Barzak spent his childhood counting the days to weekends, when he would travel wit
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By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s never too late to finish high school. Henry Friedman had barely become a teenager when he was forced
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (This is part of a special report on conversion in America. Read our other pieces about who's converting t
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service I understand you’re considering converting to Judaism. Shalom aleichem! What sort of conversion would y
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(JTA) -- More than 350 anthropologists from around the world have endorsed a boycott of Israel and its academic institutions.The statement was posted
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(JTA) -- Religious Jewish teens are far less likely to attempt suicide than their secular Jewish counterparts, a new study finds.The study, led by res
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(JTA) -- Israel's Health Ministry issued a warning declaring that therapies aimed at changing patients from gay to straight are not supported by medic
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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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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 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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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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