The Jewish comedians: Eddie Cantor
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Jewish Arts Month comes in March
ATLANTA (Press Release)– Jewish Arts Month, an annual educational initiative sponsored by the American Guild of Judaic Art, takes place March 2015. Activities aim to promote a greater appreciation and understanding of the special significance of contemporary Judaica, Jewish art, and the meaning behind the Torah commandment, Hiddur Mitzvah, to beautify ritual objects or art for one’s
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Travel and FoodJewish museum to offer free admission in February
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Press Release)–The National Museum of American Jewish History is pleased to announce that it will be offering free admission to all visitors throughout the month of February. Due to the support of an anonymous donor, the Museum is able to offer this benefit in celebration of a seven-year loan extension for the iconic
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Jewish History, Travel and Food, USAFeinstein offers 15 point rebuttal to report on CIA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-California) on Tuesday, Jan.27, released what she described as “a list of 15 factual errors and omissions in the December 14 CIA Accountability Board report on CIA’s unauthorized access to committee computers.” In a news release, Feinstein said that the report released by the CIA Accountability
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Travel and FoodA primer on making the Jewish community inclusive
Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Fall, 2014 issue of The Journal of Jewish Communal Service, and is disseminated with the permission of its publisher, JPRO Network. Subscriptions at JPRO.org. By Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi and Meagan Buren After centuries of persecution, we Jews have become deeply committed to developing one asset over almost everything else—our minds.
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Travel and FoodFemale freedom fighter’s story unfinished
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Hanna Armoni’s Are You Waiting for Eliahu?: The Story of a Woman Freedom Fighter, 1942-1948 (Yair Publishing, 2007) is a book with a difficult autobiographical story to tell. As a youngster living in pre-Israel Palestine, she joined the Lehi, one of several underground insurgency groups determined to oust the British
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