Orthodox Jews Rally to Keep the Internet Kosher - Wired News


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Orthodox Jews Rally to Keep the Internet Kosher
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By Arikia Millikan Outside an anti-internet rally staged at Citi Field for members of New York's Orthodox Jewish communities, Emkanah Schwartz pauses to explain his desire to see a "kosher internet" for his children and grandchildren.

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Museum explores 3 waves of Jewish immigration to Costa Rica - San Diego Jewish World

Museum explores 3 waves of Jewish immigration to Costa Rica
San Diego Jewish World
... she responded, “Oh, there is a Jewish Museum in San Jose. I will find out how we can go there.” I was so excited there was a Jewish Museum; I was certain that there I could learn what I wanted to know about the history of Jews in Costa Rica.

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A Jewish converts love of the Book of Ruth - National Post


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A Jewish converts love of the Book of Ruth
National Post
As we commemorate the day when the Jews received the Torah, we are told that all Jews throughout history were present at Sinai, no matter what our background or place in history might be—a particularly comforting notion for people who are more recent ...
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Epistolophilia, by Montrealer Julija Sukys, honours Lithuanian librarian Ona ... - Montreal Gazette

Epistolophilia, by Montrealer Julija Sukys, honours Lithuanian librarian Ona ...
Montreal Gazette
Time after time, Ona Simaite, the subject of Julija Sukys's compelling and beautifully crafted biography, would enter the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Vilnius – or Vilna, as the Jews called the Lithuanian city – with food and money and forged ...

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Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to speak at Tri-C this fall - Plain Dealer


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Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to speak at Tri-C this fall
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By Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer Jacquelyn Martin, The Associated PressFormer Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, left, and Marc Pachter, acting director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, stand with items that Albright is ...

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Sex and Punishment: 11 of the Most Outrageous Cases of Sex Being Criminalized ... - Huffington Post

Sex and Punishment: 11 of the Most Outrageous Cases of Sex Being Criminalized ...
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My initial, admittedly overambitious, goal was to write a narrative history of the law using colorful cases as examples. I decided to start with the oldest written laws in existence and take it from there. I was surprised by what I found.

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Arts Beat - Cleveland Jewish News

Arts Beat
Cleveland Jewish News
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage presents a panel discussion on “The resurgence of Jewish culture in Poland” at 7. Sean Martin, associate curator of Jewish history at the Western Reserve Historical Society looks behind-the-scenes at the Museum of the ...

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Xavier professor invited to the White House - FOX19

Xavier professor invited to the White House
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Jewish Americans have shaped our Nation and helped steer the course of our history," declared President Obama. In the 2011-2012 academic year Ingber's office served as the only Southern Ohio participant in the White House Interfaith and Community ...

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On the Merits of an Arranged Marriage - Huffington Post

On the Merits of an Arranged Marriage
Huffington Post
We insisted on interviewing her as if for an important historical book that might thrust the entire family into fame. In answer, her blue eyes twinkled as she flipped her silk Parisian scarf off her knees, waving it in our faces and shooing us away.

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Holocaust museum fights hate, indifference with truth - Cleveland Jewish News

Holocaust museum fights hate, indifference with truth
Cleveland Jewish News
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum strives to do more than educate visitors about the horror when Nazi Germany exterminated 6 million Jews, one-third of the world's Jewish population. The Washington, DC, museum also teaches how the decay of ...

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