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Young Israel of Margate Applauds Trocki High School for Boys

A joint Shabbaton was recently held at Young Israel of Margate where the congregation hosted the Trocki High School for Boys. More...

National / World Briefs

Gender Trouble in Israel

By Yehudah Mirsky

( Jewish Ideas Daily) — Suddenly, it seems, gender segregation is everywhere in Israel – buses, army bases, Jerusalem sidewalks, Beit Shemesh schoolyards and, above all, the front pages. What is going on here? More...

Israeli film on West Bank Justice Wins at Sundance

JERUSALEM(JTA) -- An Israeli film on the military's legal system in the West Bank was named the best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. More...

JACOB MANN RAKOVSKI, FORMER RABBI OF HADASSAH MEDICAL GROUP, DIES

Jacob Rakovski, the rabbi for Israel's Hadassah Medical Organization for 50 years, died Jan. 14 in Jerusalem. He was a Jerusalem native and came from a family of rabbis. Rakovski's age was not given. More...

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Community

Israeli Dance Troupe

Philadelphia’ s Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is presenting Israel’s internationally acclaimed Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company performing their master work “Oyster” on Thursday and Saturday, Feb. More...

New Torah Studies Class: A World of Difference - What impact do I make?

What will be your legacy? The footprint we leave on the world is a measure of the life we live. More...

Bus Trip to Holocaust Museum in D.C.

Justice Lodge #285 Free and Accepted Masons, Linwood, is sponsoring a bus trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC, on Sunday, April 15. More...

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In Israel, Composting and Recycling Programs in New Ecology Push

TU B’SHVAT FEATURE
By Jessica Steinberg

JERUSALEM ( JTA)— The still- new recycling center in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem is fairly quiet on a crisp winter afternoon. More...

Netanyahu chats on Facebook in Arabic

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a live Facebook chat with web surfers from the Arab world. More...

Columns

Tanta Pesha – a Specialist in Keeping Up with the Times

As I passed by, I noticed that The Ladies were once again gathered in front of the building with the yellow awning and were immersed in conversation. Fat Rosie was quite agitated. More...

Dimensions

Positive Actions for Clean Air
vJOYCE S. ANDERSON Special to the Jewish Times

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on December 21, 2011, new rules to sharply cut omissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from coal and oil-burning power plants across the nation. More...

The PERSON in the PARSHA

Ounce of Prevention
BY RABBI DR. TZVI HERSH WEINREB

Parshat Beshalach (Shabbat Shirah) (February 4, 2012) I couldn’t believe it. One of my trusted old reference books failed me for the first time. More...

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Anniversary

Anniversaries

64 – Gegner Murray & Mae February. 8, Lower Gwynedd, PA 32 – Scarpa Gary & Barbara Feb. 3, Northfield 20 – Reses Jeffrey & Julie Feb. 9, Linwood More...

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