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Gymnast Aly Raisman Heads To Rio For Second Olympic Games

Jewish Gymast Aly Reisman will be part of the 2016 US Olympic gymnast team. This is her 2nd time on the Olympic team.

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Porkless COVID-19 Isolation

There are some benefits to this social distancing...

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UK Jewish Worman Woman Awarded $24,500 Payout After Firm Snubs her Sabbath Observance

A 23-year-old Jewish woman in the U.K. was awarded £16,000 ($24,464) from a potential employer that turned down her application because she refused to work on the Jewish Sabbath.

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The Immortal Jews

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to…

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Mensch on Wheels

Bubbe has an app for you! She's 84 and she's taking the tech world by storm.

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Interview with Dr. Lawrence Hoffman

Interview with Dr. Lawrence Hoffman Dr. Hoffman is Professor of Liturgy and Director of the Synagogue 2000 Initiative for synagogue spirituality, Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion and…

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A Strange Anti-Semitic Story

In the city of Miskolc located in hungry there was a teenager named Csanad Szegedi who became attracted to neo-Nazism.

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The Mystery of the Jews

Who are the Jews? What impact did they have on the world?

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Start Tel Aviv – Where Global Entrepreneurs Meet

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The Jewish Treasures in Saddam Hussein's Basement

This is a dramatic heroic story of how these historic materials were found and rescued from the basement of Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters and how the National Archives is preserving them.

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Mama and the Four Legged Chicken

My mother's parents came from small shtetles in the vicinity of Grudno and kuvno in czarist russia, emigrating in the 1880's. Her Father became a glazier and a locksmith, fathering 13 children in…

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Calendar of Jewish Persecution

Calendar of Jewish Persecution70 A.D. Destruction of Jerusalem 1,100,000 Jews were killed and 97,000 taken into slavery and captivity.115 Rebellion of the Jews in Mesopotania, Egypt, Cyrene and…

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Ukranian Elections

First a comedian, then later the mayor of the city of Vinnytsia, Volodymyr Zelensky won by a landslide in the polls to be elected the first-ever Jewish president of Ukraine, defeating a recumbent…

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Sar-El: Volunteers From Around the World Give Back to the IDF

Sar-El, the National Jewish Project for Volunteers for Israel, brings approximately 4,000 Jews and non-Jews from 30 countries to Israel to volunteer in the IDF for several weeks.

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