JTA – The Genesis Prize Foundation and the Jewish Funders Network have launched a $3 million matching grant program to fund an initiative to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in …
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9/16/16
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Republican Jewish Coalition said it reached 25,000 people on a day of campaigning in Jewish neighborhoods in swing states where incumbent Republican senators are at risk.
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9/16/16
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(Part one of two)
JTA – A stabbing and car-ramming epidemic in Israel that some called a third intifada was among the most dominant Jewish stories …
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Ben Harris
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9/15/16
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Freewheeling Jews
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What is it about Jews and cars? Almost everywhere I travel, including Little Rhody, I notice businesses, bumper stickers and license plates with Jewish names and messages. Don’t worry, …
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George M. Goodwin
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9/1/16
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JTA – Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston has fired its chief financial officer for alleged financial improprieties, the Boston Globe reported.
The CFO, identified by the …
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9/1/16
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JTA — Two Torahs valued at $30,000 that had been stolen with some $50,000 of silver religious pieces were returned to a New Jersey synagogue.
Thomas Dobles, 39, a former caretaker at …
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9/1/16
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BOSTON (JTA) – Six weeks after a fire shuttered Boston’s main kosher supermarket, The Butcherie is now operating on a limited basis from a nearby Brookline location.
Selectmen in …
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9/1/16
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JTA – For many, summer is all about the three B’s: baseball, beaches and books.
With the weather and pennant races sizzling, two journalists and the mayor of …
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HILLEL KUTTLER
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8/19/16
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – An exhibit more than 20 years old against an iPhone: Docents at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum are increasingly noting the battle with hand-held devices to keep the …
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RON KAMPEAS
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6/24/16
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Helen Mirren testified to the U.S. Senate about the importance of restoring art stolen by Nazis to its rightful owners.
Mirren, the Oscar-winning British actress, …
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6/9/16
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