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JTA – Billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Rubenstein has donated $18.5 million to repair and restore the Lincoln Memorial.
The donation from Rubenstein, the co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, to the National Park Foundation’s …
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2/19/16
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Who among us enjoys visiting cemeteries? It’s an exhausting experience, often filled with sadness, grief and remorse. But consider the fate of countless Jews and other martyrs, who were denied proper burials or any words of blessing or farewell. …
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GEORGE M. GOODWIN
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2/19/16
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JTA – A hip Jewish care-package project says it has become the most successful Jewish campaign ever on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform.
After Hello Mazel reached $70,000, it became “the most-funded Jewish campaign in Kickstarter …
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2/19/16
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JTA – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former United Nations secretary-general who as a member of the Egyptian Cabinet was key to achieving the Camp David peace accords, has died.
Boutros-Ghali died Feb. 16 in a Cairo hospital, where he had been …
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2/19/16
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I wish I could tell you I have an aversion to exercise, but I don’t.
I have an aversion to the word exercise. It conjures up unhealthy attempts to control my weight and destructive tendencies toward perfection.
For many years, exercise was …
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KARA MARZIALI
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2/19/16
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A few weeks ago, I was asked to come to Israel – to be interviewed for a Judaic Studies-Education fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Eventually, after I got the dates that I would be visiting Israel and going to Jerusalem – I was …
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GILOR MESHULAM
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2/19/16
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – “When there was no Jewish justice on the Supreme Court,” Antonin “Nino” Scalia told me, “I considered myself the Jewish justice.”
After Abe Fortas resigned in May 1969, there would be no Jewish justice on the …
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NATHAN LEWIN
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2/19/16
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Jo-Anne DeGiacomo-Petrie is bringing a lot of enthusiasm, along with years of early childhood education experience, to her job as the new director of The David C. Isenberg Family Early Childhood Center.
Petrie, who started Feb. 15, positively …
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Fran Ostendorf
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2/19/16
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Rhode Island’s got talent, of course. Rhode Island’s Jewish community has oodles of talent especially musical talent.
We have vocal soloists, a cappella singers, satirical Purim spielers, rock ‘n’ roll bands, tunes from the Broadway …
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LINDA SHAMOON
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2/19/16
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Join the Providence Hebrew Day School (PHDS) community as they celebrate Kosher cuisine and present a multiple-bidding auction in support of Jewish education in the local community at their 19th annual “Prize is Right: Cooking for a Cause” event …
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2/19/16
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