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‘Magic City,’ Jewish Power Brokers in 1950s Miami Beach
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March 30, 2012
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Jewish Groups Hold Anti-Hunger Seder for Lawmakers
By JTA Published March 29, 2012. Jewish organizations hosted a Seder for members of Congress to highlight the importance of fighting hunger in America. The National Hunger Seder, which was sponsored by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and MAZON, was held Thursday in Washington to push for protecting and reinforcing funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
March 30, 2012
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Jewish tour well received
An Experimental Prototype of a Jewish Tour of St. Augustine, operated by the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society (SAJHS) was deemed a success by participants and tour leadership alike, after visiting and discussing eight significant sites around Americas first European City
March 30, 2012
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Jewish organizations host National Hunger Seder
Nation March 29, 2012 JTA Jewish organizations hosted a Seder for members of Congress to highlight the importance of fighting hunger in America. The National Hunger Seder, which was sponsored by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and MAZON, was held Thursday in Washington to push for protecting and reinforcing funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The refunding of SNAP will be considered in the 2012 Farm Bill reauthorization by Congress
March 30, 2012
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Condo owner told to remove Jewish mezuzah
By Amy Parmenter, NBCConnecticut.com STRATFORD, Conn. — A Stratford condo association has ordered a resident to take down a religious artifact that adorns most Jewish homes or face a penalty of $50 a day. Barbara Cadranel said the controversy began earlier this year when board members at the California Condominiums asked her to take down her mezuzah, a prayer scroll in a small clear plastic case, that she has affixed to the doorpost of her home as Jewish law commands
March 29, 2012
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A Jewish synagogue makes a comeback in Lebanon
The last remaining synagogue in Beirut is undergoing restoration, and will soon host its first rabbi in nearly 40 years.
March 29, 2012
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Jewish Home Movies Provide Backdrop for Skirball Exhibit
Jewish Home Movies Provide Backdrop for Skirball Exhibit 2012-03-29 ‘Jewish Homegrown History: Immigration, Identity and Intermarriage’ opens on March 29 at the Skirball Cultural Center on Mulholland near the 405 freeway. Using old home movies, the exhibit invites viewers to watch vivid moments from the lives of ordinary families that illustrate the personal experiences of California Jews. Among the stories are the Chaikins of Boyle Heights, whose children grew up alongside Latino and Japanese neighbors; Harriet and Fred Rochlin, a writer and an architect who met at Berkeley and collaborated on an illustrated history of pioneer Jews of the West; and Murrieta Hot Springs, which depicts how this distinctly Californian resort differed from better-known Catskills vacation resorts in the East.
March 29, 2012
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Jewish school gunman linked to French spies?
France 2 via AP Mohamed Merah shown in this image from French TV station France 2 By Alastair Jamieson, msnbc.com Mohamed Merah, the gunman who killed seven people including three Jewish children, may have been an informant for France’s intelligence services, according to reports that raise further questions about whether authorities missed chances to prevent the attacks. The 23-year-old, who is a French citizen of Algerian origin, shot dead three Muslim soldiers as well asthree children and a rabbi at a Jewish school before beingslain by police commandos at the end of a 32-hour standoff in an apartment in Toulouse.
March 29, 2012
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Jewish law used as excuse to stifle women
By Joseph Millis – Thursday 29th March 2012 THE JEWISH community lacks women in leadership positions because they feel less valued than men, the Jewish Leadership Council’s commission has heard.
March 29, 2012
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Jewish school: Get off Facebook or be expelled
NEW YORK For Facebook users at a Hasidic all-girls high school in New York it’s either Exodus — or expulsion. Students at the Orthodox Beth Rivkah High School have been ordered to immediately delete their accounts on the popular social-networking site and pay a $100 fine, or be kicked out of the school
March 29, 2012
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Play about Jews in WW2 Shanghai – Video
28-03-2012 17:57 “North Bank Suzhou Creek,” is a play that takes place in Shanghai during World War Two where more than 30000 Jews were sheltered by the Chinese during the Japanese occupation. The play premiered in Shanghai on Thursday prior to heading to New York later this year
March 28, 2012
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Tunisia's Jewish community sues over anti-Semitic slogans
Tunisia's Jewish community said Wednesday it was making an official complaint over anti-Semitic slogans chanted at a protest demanding the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law, in the country.
March 28, 2012
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Jewish schoolboy, 12, beaten up in latest anti-Semitic attack to hit France… as school where Islamic terrorist Merah …
By Peter Allen PUBLISHED: 07:30 EST, 28 March 2012 | UPDATED: 07:33 EST, 28 March 2012 A Jewish schoolboy was punched in the back of the head and beaten up in the latest anti-Semitic attack to hit France. The 12-year-old was walking near his Jewish school in southeastern Paris yesterday when a gang set up on him, calling him a ‘dirty little Jew’. It came as it emerged the Jewish school where Islamic terrorist Mohammed Merah, 23, gunned down four people has received hate messages warning: ‘This is only the beginning’
March 28, 2012
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Portland Jewish Academy celebrates 50 years of teaching students its founding values
On a recent morning two seventh-grade girls rush into the central office at the Portland Jewish Academy it is their turn to greet the school over the intercom. Good Morning PJA! they call into the microphone.
March 28, 2012
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Jewish High School for girls 'tells pupils to delete Facebook accounts or be expelled' as site is 'against moral code'
Move happened to restore ‘code of modesty’ at school By Chris Parsons PUBLISHED: 03:21 EST, 28 March 2012 | UPDATED: 04:32 EST, 28 March 2012 A Jewish High School for girls has been accused of ordering pupils to delete their Facebook profiles or risk expulsion. Female pupils at Beis Rivkah High School in Brooklyn, New York, have reportedly been told to remove their accounts from the social networking site as bosses tried to address a supposed decline in pupils’ ‘code of modesty’. A school official said the crackdown was launched to restore a level of the Tznius Jewish Orthodox code of modesty said to be in decline through Facebook use.
March 28, 2012
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Jewish groups work to feed needy
Coordinators at Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Southern Arizona want to make sure that gefilte fish, grape juice, macaroons and horseradish are on the menu for families in the Tucson area this Passover. The group has been collecting those items, as well as produce, walnuts, matza and matza ball soup mix, as part of its Matza and More Project. Its aim is to provide holiday food staples to families who might not be able to afford them, said Ellen Hull, marketing manager for JFCS
March 28, 2012
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Jewish boy beaten at Paris Ozar Hatorah school as anti-Semitic taunts chanted
A Jewish boy at a Paris school was beaten today by youths who taunted him with anti-Semitic chants, according to The Associated Press.
March 28, 2012
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Boy beaten near Paris Jewish school amid tensions
A 12-year-old boy was beaten outside his Jewish school in Paris by youths reciting anti-Semitic slogans, school officials said, amid high security and tensions in France following killings of Jewish children and a rabbi last week.
March 27, 2012
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Jewish Dating Site JRetroMatch.com Launches JMontreal.com to Service Local Montreal Singles
Jewish Dating service JMontreal.com will launch March 28th 2012 to benefit Jewish singles in Montreal. The service combines the unique match technology of JRetroMatch.com with local JMontreal matchmakers, to give the personalized touchNew York, NY (PRWEB) March 27, 2012 JRetroMatch.com and JMontreal.com are thrilled to announce that they will be joining forces in Jewish matchmaking
March 27, 2012
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Harry Kosansky, headed Jewish Federation here
May 14, 1929March 21, 2012 Harry Kosansky, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo from 1984 to 1994, died Wednesday in Sarasota, Fla., from complications following a stroke. He was 82.
March 27, 2012
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French victims in the Jewish school attack are buried in Israel
Three children and their teacher who were killed this week during the shooting attack on their Jewish school in Toulouse, France, were buried in Jerusalem Wednesday. Jonathan Sandler, 30, a rabbi and teacher at Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, his two sons Gabriel, 3, and Arieh, 6, and Miriam Monsonego, 7, the daughter of the school's
March 27, 2012
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French police hunt for gunman after four killed at Jewish school in Toulouse
A massive manhunt was underway in France on Monday to find the perpetrator of the fatal shootings of three children and their teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse, in southwest France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who flew to Toulouse where the sniper attacks on Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school occurred, called the killings a
March 27, 2012
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Swedish Jewish leader: 'Enough is enough'
The head of the Jewish community in Stockholm said on Tuesday she welcomes a planned meeting with top Social Democrats to discuss “anti-Semitic” remarks made by Ilmar Reepalu, but warned that “enough is enough”. Posner-Krsi was one of three Jewish community leaders to sign a letter sent on Friday by the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities (Judiska centralrdet i Sverige JC) to Social Democrat party head Stefan Lfven
March 27, 2012
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Jewish Federation gets $250,000 gift from Farash Foundation
The Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation has made a matching gift of up to $250,000 to the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester's annual UJA Federation Campaign.
March 27, 2012
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Turkey Jewish community protests Hitler shampoo ad
(CBS/AP) ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s Jewish community is protesting a Turkish commercial that uses an old film footage of Adolf Hitler to sell shampoo.
March 26, 2012
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