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JTA – Jewish groups called for civil and serious discussion about race, democracy and justice in the wake of a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed African-American teen in Ferguson. …
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12/4/14
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Sharing their favorite Jewish chocolate experiences recently, a group of about 60 chocolate lovers didn’t even mention Hanukkah gelt.That is, until one woman at the New Jersey get-together shared her thoughts on the …
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Deborah R. Prinz
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12/4/14
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JTA – Surely the Torah’s redactors never imagined that their Dinah — voiceless daughter of Jacob and Leah, rape victim avenged by her brothers — would one day be portrayed on the small screen as a lusty young midwife’s apprentice who takes …
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Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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12/4/14
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OXON HILL, Md. (JTA) – There were the vice president of the United States, two Supreme Court justices and an Academy Award-winning actress with a compelling Jewish story. There were Jewish professionals, lay leaders, clergy and recent college …
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Uriel Heilman
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11/21/14
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JTA – Victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme will split another $500 million, bringing the total recovered to $10.3 billion.
Trustee Irving Picard on Nov. 17 announced a settlement with two “feeder funds” that are being liquidated in …
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11/21/14
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JTA – Loyola University Chicago has determined that the campus chapters of both Hillel and Students for Justice in Palestine violated university rules.
A board of Loyola administrators ruled Friday that both organizations had broken the rules …
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11/7/14
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether American citizens born in Jerusalem should have the option of listing Israel as their birthplace.
On Nov. 3, the nine justices weighed claims in a lawsuit filed by the …
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11/7/14
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Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org – Dr. Eli Harari, the Israeli founder of the SanDisk flash storage company, has been named as one of the nine 2014 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Harari will receive the …
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10/23/14
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JTA – With midterm elections just around the corner, four races for the House of Representatives in particular are catching our Jewish eyes.
In California, succeeding Waxman: Ted Lieu vs. Elan Carr
California’s 33rd …
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Ron Kampeas and Anthony Weiss
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10/23/14
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(JTA) – For the first time in four decades, Miami Jewry is growing.
That’s the official finding of the new Miami Jewish population study released Monday by the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.
The Jewish population of Miami-Dade County …
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Uriel Heilman
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10/23/14
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