By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — There’s something about helping out with a minyan, especially to enable someone to say kaddish, that draws even some of the least observant among us, as does the obligation to say say kaddish itself. And, as solemn a mitzvah it is, there sometimes are humorous sidelights. When my father died in […]
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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireNow retired, Michael Shinagel reflects on his family’s flight from Vienna and how he, a boy who didn’t know English until age 7, earned a PhD in literature By Rich Tenorio CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Seventy-five years ago, a young Austrian-Jewish refugee fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents and older brother. That 7-year-old boy named Michael
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAProposal could face ministerial vote next week; Chief Rabbinate claims High Court does not have jurisdiction over holy sites By Raoul Wootliff Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men yell and protest Liberal Jewish men and women as they hold a prayer service in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City, on June 16, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastMary Tyler Moore, who died Wednesday at the age of 80, didn’t really make that much television when you get right down to it. She starred in just two series that lasted a total of 12 years. But, man, did her characters and those series resonate. I cannot think of a 20th century TV performer
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release)– Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national emergency medicine service and operator of the national blood services center, is also Israel’s national society within the international movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Under this capacity, MDA operates a division for tracing. The organization’s association with the Red Cross exposes it
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastMary Tyler Moore, the multiple Emmy-winning actress who first charmed TV viewers on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the 1960s and became a beloved TV icon who could “turn the world on with her smile” on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the 1970s, has died. She was 80. In a career that began
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastButch Trucks, the longtime drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, has died at age 69. Rolling Stone confirmed the news with Trucks’ booking manager after reports of his death began to circulate on Facebook and Twitter. Trucks was one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band and played with the group since its
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Power not only breeds paranoia, it also gives free range to greed. The current cluster of investigations of Prime Minister Netanyahu (and members of his family) is a case in point. Several of potential charges have to do with receiving “gifts” that in the eyes of the law are
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastNazis’ ‘minister of hate’ planted ‘seed’ of ideology Robert Wittman signs copies of his book detailing his search and recovery of the diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a leading architect of the Third Reich who “in some respects turned Hitler into Hitler.” Photo by Debra Rubin Many consider Alfred Rosenberg the “architect” of the Third Reich,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish HistoryA Filipino filmmaker will premiere this week in Tel Aviv his documentary on how the Philippines provided refuge to some 1,300 Jews fleeing from the Holocaust. According to Philippine ambassador to Israel Neal Imperial, ‘An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines’ by Noel Izon will be shown at the Cinematheque Tel Aviv on Jan.
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International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastGathering in Washington, young Jewish women say that they were moved to activism by the election and the new president’s rhetoric By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil WASHINGTON, DC — Jewish organizations faced challenges organizing for a march scheduled for the Sabbath, but that didn’t prevent the youngest generation of activists from being out in force for
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Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON — At the center of his foreign policy vision, Donald Trump has put “America First,” a phrase with an anti-Semitic and isolationist history going back to the years before the U.S. entry into World War II. Trump started using the slogan in the later months of his campaign, and despite requests from the Anti-Defamation
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Jewish History, USADaughter of Donald Trump Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, who are orthodox Jews, have reportedly received rabbinical permission to travel to Donald Trump”s Presidential inauguration by car – after the onset of Shabbat. In an interview with Kol Barama radio, Mark Zell, the chair of the Republican Party in Israel, said that the couple
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Jewish Religion, USAA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires was briefly evacuated on Thursday following a false bomb threat, Argentina”s Jewish community association AMIA said in a statement quoted by Reuters. The AMIA statement said police had received an anonymous phone call threatening a center for senior citizens near the AMIA building that was attacked nearly 23
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