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July 25, 2017
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Abuse Survivors Press For Statute Bill

In a bid to turn up the pressure on Agudath Israel of America over its policies towards sexual abuse victims, activists and abuse survivors protested Sunday in front of the Novominsker shul in Borough Park, the second such protest...

By Chaim Levin

July 25, 2017
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28.5 Mile Swim Nets $25K For Research — And Catharsis For A Grieving Father

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On the evening of Sept. 2, 2001, 6-year-old Netta Cohen told her father, Guy, how excited she was about starting first grade the next day in northern Israel. A week later, on 9/11, shiva for Netta ended. She had died as...

By Steve Lipman

July 25, 2017
4:40 pm

On Tisha b’Av, The Empty Spaces Within

Looking at the empty space, I felt a sadness similar to what I imagine someone might experience seeing a vacant lot where his or her childhood home once stood. My epiphany occurred in Israel’s Tower of David, while observing...

By Ben Krull

July 25, 2017
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BDS Activists Prevented From Boarding Flight To Israel

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Five members of an interfaith delegation to Israel were prevented from boarding their flight from Washington, D.C., reportedly due to their activism on behalf of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The Jewish Voice for Peace organization said in a...

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July 25, 2017
11:22 am

Jared Kushner Says Russia Charges ‘Ridicule’ Trump Voters

Jared Kushner Makes A Statement To The Media At The White House

WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a rare public statement, Jared Kushner insisted he did not collude with Russia and said the query into suspicions of a relationship between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign “ridiculed” Trump voters. “Let me very...

By JTA

July 25, 2017
11:21 am

Muslim Worshippers Stay Away From Temple Mount Despite Removal Of Metal Detectors, Security Cameras

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Metal detectors and security cameras installed at entrances to the Temple Mount for Muslim worshippers were removed, but the religious trust that administers the holy sites there said Muslims should continue to stay away. The Muslim Waqf...

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July 25, 2017
10:45 am

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Temple Mount Protest

Israel to remove Temple Mount metal detectors Israel's security cabinet decided yesterday to remove the controversial metal detectors installed at the entrances to the Temple Mount, Haaretz reports. The metal detectors have aroused a wave of protests among Palestinians in...

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Editor's Note: The New Normal blog has been covering efforts by disability activists and advocates this summer who are opposing the Republican healthcare bill. Today's blog is a speech that was delivered at Tuesdays with Toomey, a weekly gathering...

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US Gold Medalist Plays Wheelchair B-Ball In Israel

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A moving encounter took place this week when 48 members of the US Maccabi Swim Team visited Tel Aviv’s Beit Halochem Rehabilitation Sports and Recreation Center and met with Zahal Disabled Veterans. US Olympic Gold Medalist Anthony Ervin was amongst...

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July 20, 2017
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Aphasia Awareness Month In Israel

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Editor's Month: Last month we shared a story about the impact that Hadassah's Adler Aphasia Center is having in Israel. We're delighted to share these photos from the Center's recent Aphasia Awareness Month events. The senior staff of Hadassah Academic...

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July 17, 2017
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Financial Planning And Special Needs

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“Caregiver” is a familiar word as we gain appreciation for the things people do for loved ones. The term is especially applicable to those caring for someone who has special needs. Decision-making, particularly where children are the ones with...

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July 13, 2017
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This Chasidic Mom Got Arrested To Save Medicaid

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Sara Atkins, a Chasidic stay at home mother of five children is busy this summer planning her son’s Bar Mitzvah, overseeing her children’s schooling (they all attend a cyber charter school) and taking her children to their scouts and...

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Editor's Note: The New Normal blog continues to cover the impact of proposed Medicaid cuts on the lives of people with disabilities. Thank you to Erica Mones for sharing her perspective which originally appeared here. Nearly once a week a...

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SINAI Schools New Film Wins Multiple Awards

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SINAI Schools has won multiple prestigious Awards of Excellence and an Award of Merit from The Accolade Global Film Competition for their short documentary, Jacob’s Footprints. Jacob’s Footprints premiered at SINAI’s annual benefit dinner in February, 2017. It tells the...

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New band HAIM’s second album lands with a splash, as the sisters head on tour.

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July 25, 2017
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For Women, The Weight Of History

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One image that remains after reading Rachel Kadish’s “The Weight of Ink” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is of an elderly rabbi who lost his sight to the brutality of Inquisition officials, dictating letters in 17th-century London with clarity of mind...

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July 25, 2017
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Even in high summer, the Maltese islands Gozo and Comino are sleepy and unhurried, like twin lizards baking under the sun. They are peaceful because most people haven’t heard of them. Gozo and Comino are two of the many reasons...

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July 25, 2017
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Of all the books that I read in high school, the one that moved me the most was Anthony Lewis’ 1964 bestseller “Gideon’s Trumpet,” the story of a destitute Florida prisoner, Clarence Earl Gideon, who became an unlikely hero...

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MOSHAV Credited with being one of the first groups to make Jewish music that truly rocks, the original members of the ’90s band Moshav hail from, well, a moshav in the outskirts of Jerusalem founded by the mystically minded troubadour...

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July 20, 2017
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A New Play Tells The Story Of Mikvah-Peeping Rabbi Barry Freundel

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rabbi Barry Freundel was the rabbi of Kesher Israel in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. He was a man of power in his synagogue, and influence in the wider modern Orthodox world. But all of...

By Giovanna Paz

July 19, 2017
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Granddaughter Of Holocaust Survivors Removed Auschwitz Relics To Use For Art Project

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said it will file a complaint with the Polish prosecutor against an Israeli woman, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, who removed relics from site. Rotem Bides, 27, an art student at the...

By JTA

July 19, 2017
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‘Menashe,’ The Yiddish Movie About A Chasidic Single Dad, Brings Boro Park To The Big Screen

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It was the nighttime fires of Lag B’Omer, flames licking the darkening skies over Borough Park, that convinced Joshua Z. Weinstein he had to make a movie about chasidim. A filmmaker with a documentarian’s eye, and ear, for “authenticity,” he...

By Jonathan Mark

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