By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, an Arab woman with a PhD in marine microbiology, has won Israel’s highest honor for an amate
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Eileen Goltz Special to JTNews I had the most interesting conversation with my neighbor’s 4-year-old granddaughter. She explained to me that during
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By Dikla Tuchman, Jewish Sound Correspondent “A good divorce is better sometimes than trying to share the same house,” Stanley Wulf told his audien
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By Melanie Notkin, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- We had just closed our Haggadahs to begin the dinner portion of the Passover seder when
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By Norma Zager/JNS.org Those of the mindset that religions are inherently at war with one another must have a difficult time reconciling
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By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Jewish Sound Columnist Are you worried your kids might get bored during the seder? Here are 10 (plus one bonus) great thin
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By Julie Wiener, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- This week, 73 North American rabbis will be missing something when they go to Shabbat ser
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By Amy Hirshberg Lederman, Special to The Jewish Sound Ever since I can remember, I have been in a relationship with God. Despite growing up in a f
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By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to the Jewish Sound Seder in the Desert (Lerner Publishing) shares a new vision of holiday celebration written by Ra
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Ann D. Koffsky Special to JTNews One morning King Pharaoh woke in his bed / There were frogs in his bed and frogs on his head / Frogs on his nose a
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By Meryl Ain, The New York Jewish Week As a little girl, my mother took me to see “Marjorie Morningstar,” a movie about a Jewish girl played by Nat
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Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org A Byzantine monastery with an intricate mosaic floor has been discovered in the northern part of Israel’s Negev
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NEW YORK (JTA) -- The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States decreased by 19 percent in 2013, but physical assaults against Jews increa
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A Spanish tortilla is nothing like a Mexican tortilla. In Spain, a tortilla is a thick potato and egg omelet. Tortilla is perfect for Passover because
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(JNS.org) As a result of the ongoing strike by Israeli Foreign Ministry workers, a shipping container filled with Passover for a planned 1,700-person
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Anthony Weiss, JTA LAS VEGAS (JTA) -- The GOP Jewish faithful descended in force on Sin City, turning out in record numbers and striking a feisty,
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Linda Gradstein/The Media Line It sounds like the plot of a thriller. Two antiquities thieves, carrying their stolen loot, meet a potential buyer a
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(JTA) -- The president of the student government at Chicago's Loyola University vetoed an Israel divestment resolution that was passed twice. Pedro
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