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A woman who with her husband has contributed large sums to pro-Israel and Jewish groups is the principal funder of the group that has taken the lead in opposing an Islamic center in lower Manhattan.
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A round-up of free, or nearly free, High Holiday services nationwide.
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The Conservative movement’s new High Holiday prayer book is as post-denominational as the movement behind it, the Wall Street Journal reports
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Shalom TV runs free High Holiday services on cable as well as online.
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A Hilton Head rabbi organizes a bike ride for teshuva.
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Non-Jewish dads reflect on their role during the High Holidays.
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Four members of an Orthodox volunteer patrol were shot Thursday night in Brooklyn.
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The PLO envoy to Washington said that a conference on anti-Semitism at Yale University "demonized Arabs."
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A group of Jewish interfaith educators is asking rabbis to talk about Islam next Shabbat.
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The European Union's trade chief apologized for comments he made about Jews.
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Stone throwers lightly wounded an Israeli girl traveling in the West Bank.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the only path for the Palestinians is resistance, not peace talks.
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Libya will allow two Italian Jewish women to visit their ancestral homes.
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Is there a reason that the shofar is so special?
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For those who can't afford High Holiday tickets, what can be done to mark the holidays in their own home?
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that peace talks are off unless Israel extends a partial moratorium on settlement building.
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Debra Berger, the founder of Project Interchange that sent influential leaders to Israel, has died.
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Israel's chief rabbi has banned the sale of non-koshered meat to Israeli supermarket chains.
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The Mormon Church and Jewish leaders have resolved a dispute over the church's posthumous baptisms by proxy of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
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Jewels of Elul 23: WOW from Nofrat Frenkel
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American Jewish attachment to Israel is holding steady, a new study shows.
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The French Jewish umbrella group spoke out against recurring comparisons between Nazi treatment of Jews and France’s current policy to rapidly expel Roma migrants.
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An organization in Israel helps women hire private detectives to compel recalcitrant husbands to grant religious writs of divorce, or gets.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders will meet every two weeks to advance peace talks.
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Mahmoud Abbas agreed with Benjamin Netanyahu that securing Israelis and Palestinians was the key to advancing peace.
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On the first day of a summit between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, each side gave the other something in remarks at Thursday morning's news conference.
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A six-month strike by Israeli Foreign Ministry workers that jeopardized Israeli diplomatic relations with work slowdowns has been suspended.
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Four Torah scrolls that once belonged to a Southern California rabbi should be returned to his widow, a Los Angeles court ruled.
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A Torah was dedicated in the birthplace of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.
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Ten past and present NBA players visited Israeli President Shimon Peres at his Jerusalem office.
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