Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- When a 2009 Holocaust-era assets conference concluded with a landmark statement of principl
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Ed Harris, Jewish Sound Columnist The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article entitled “The Long (Long) Wait to be a Grandparent.” Tell me abou
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(JTA) — Pro-Russian separatists from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine denied any involvement in the circulation of fliers calling on Jews to register wi
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UPDATE: WASHINGTON (JTA) — The suspect in the deadly shooting attack on two Jewish targets in a Kansas City, Kan., suburb was identified as a prominen
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Sure, we're all familiar with the four cups of wine at Passover seder. But why be so restrictive when aside from wine, there are so many other creativ
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By: Felice Friedson/The Media Line Dr. Larry Norton is the Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and hai
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After lengthy discussion and debate, it’s official: the Orthodox Union—one of the world’s foremost kashrut authorities—has declared quin
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By Penny Schwartz, JTA World News Service BOSTON (JTA) — Growing up in Bosnia, Merima Kljuco was familiar with the Sarajevo Haggadah. The mediev
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In 1995, Renewal Judaism founder Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi published his book “From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing,” based on his studies of world religions
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By Richelle Willner Martin The JUMP boardroom presentation day took place on March 19, 2014, on the 25th floor of a skyscraper in the middle of Manha
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By Emma Stein JUMP, Jewish Unity Mentoring Project, is a national leadership program for Jewish high school students across the country. It is a prog
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Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Washington State Court of Appeals has thrown out a lawsuit filed in Sept. 2011 by five Olympia Food Co
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(JTA) -- An Australian-American team of researchers recommended circumcising infant males to avoid diseases in a new study that compared the practice
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound It’s almost inevitable when we travel, or have visitors come to town, that they will ask the same quest
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By Mollie Katzen, JNS.org Vegetarians, and especially vegans, need some high-protein plant food with a bit of heft to keep them going during Passov
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s a college student’s dream scenario: Science class in a bar — with no tests. There’s no telling how
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By Ty Alhadeff, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies It has been 40 years since Dr. Rina Benmayor visited Seattle to record romansas (ballads) among lo
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Op-Ed: The West Bank is under military occupation, and that's a fact By Jessica Montell, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Accordi
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound When “The Sixty Minute Seder” came across my desk a few weeks back, I didn’t give it much thought. When
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