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Watch: Meet Haim Gozali, The First Israeli MMA Fighter To Fight In MSG

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The Jewish Week met up with Israeli MMA athlete, Haim Gozali, at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel last Friday ahead his big fight with Ryan Couture at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Watch the interview below, where Gozali talked about his...

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Most Rabbinical Schools Lack Parental Leave Policies — And Students Are Not Happy About It

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NEW YORK (JTA) — A few weeks after her first daughter’s due date, Catherine Clark was set to begin her fifth and final year at the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Conservative rabbinical school. Clark was excited to graduate and ecstatic to...

By Ben Sales

June 26, 2017
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Israel Freezes Western Wall Compromise That Was To Create Egalitarian Prayer Section

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet has frozen a government decision to create an official egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall. The suspension announced Sunday comes after the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party and the Sephardi...

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U Of Delaware Lecturer Loses Job For Saying Otto Warmbier ‘Got What He Deserved’

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An adjunct professor at the University of Delaware who said that an American Jewish college student who died after being detained for over a year in North Korea “got exactly what he deserved” will not be rehired to teach...

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Jewish Tech Millionaire Turned Lawmaker Could Be First Openly Gay Governor Of Colorado

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Jared Polis is already on to the next thing. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has looked at his resume. By the age of 25, he had founded three companies, which would shortly make him a multimillionaire. He...

By Josefin Dolsten

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Israel backs out of Western Wall prayer compromise Israel’s government yesterday scrapped a compromise that would allow pluralist prayer at the Western Wall, bowing to pressure from charedi parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and angering liberal Jewish denominations with...

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Board Calls For Fire-Ravaged Lower East Side Shul To Be Demolished

NEW YORK (JTA) — A historic synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ravaged by a fire last month may soon be demolished. NY 1 reported Thursday that the local community board approved a proposal to tear down the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue...

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Ari* deliberates as he considers the half dozen glasses on the café table and slowly puts one, then two, then three on the black tray he’s holding. A bit wary, but also intent, you can almost hear him strategize:...

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Biking And Hiking With A Mission

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From Wednesday through Friday during the second week of May, bike riders and hikers on the fourth biennial Ramah Israel Bike Ride and Hiking Trip pedaled and hiked through the 108 degree Western Negev sun and the Judean Hills....

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A Younger Sister Asks “What Now?”

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My older brother Noah is autistic. Currently, he is completely dependent on me and the rest of my family. I was so very proud--and also scared--to see Noah, at age 21, graduate from high school last week. For the...

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My Daughter’s Tallit Is Her Superhero Cape

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(Kveller via JTA) -- Being the parent of a child with a disability can be lonely. Being the single parent of a child with a rare disability that is estimated to affect a mere 1 percent of the population...

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A Voice Of Resilience In Israel: Major Riki Golan

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Dealing successfully with challenges has ripple effects far beyond the individual. Overcoming adversity in the face of a disability is often a profound source of inspiration to others. One such example is a program in Israel that is paving...

By Yossi Kahana

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Akiva And The Missing Glasses

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Editor's Note: Thank you to Beth Steinberg for sharing her powerful blog that originally appeared here. Let’s talk about vulnerability. And don’t go putting your sad and supportive face on, thinking, “Oh, Beth’s about to tell us another Akiva story.” I...

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Three outstanding Jewish educators who are taking their visions of deeply engaging Judaism and igniting them into reality - are the 2017 recipients of The Covenant Award. "These Jewish educators exemplify inspired, courageous and visionary leadership," said Cheryl Finkel, Chair...

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June 23, 2017
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Invades The Streets Of Tel Aviv

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TEL AVIV (JTA) — What are the female slaves of an American Christian theocracy doing in Tel Aviv? Attracting a lot of attention, apparently. Six women dressed as handmaids from Hulu’s hit “The Handmaid’s Tale” — based on the novel of the...

By Andrew Tobin

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Diaspora Tale Binds Jewish Filmmaker, Syrian Producer

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For Julia Meltzer, the story of Dalya and Rudayna Zeno leaving the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, to make a new life in Los Angeles was a familiar one. Three of Meltzer’s grandparents had been immigrants to the United...

By Shira Hanau

June 21, 2017
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Writers Without Borders

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There are the writers living in Israel, like David Grossman, Etgar Keret, Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, whose Hebrew words are translated into many languages and published around the world. There are other widely published authors writing from Israel...

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June 21, 2017
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Inside Israeli Noir, And What It Says About The Country

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Call it Israeli noir, the dark side of the nation’s literary sensibility. With the heroic idealism and resilience associated with the Six-Day War now a fading 50-year-old memory for many in today’s contentious political climate, two new best-selling novels...

By Diane Cole

June 21, 2017
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A Forbidden Love Story’s Multiple Plots

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Writing about Dorit Rabinyan’s “All the Rivers” (Random House), newly published in an English translation by Jessica Cohen, requires unspooling at least two narratives. One is contained within the novel that first appeared in Israel as “Gader Haya” in...

By Erika Dreifus

June 21, 2017
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June 21, 2017 8:49 am

For Israeli-Americans, Gal Gadot Is A Wonder Of Wonders

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Yonatan Gutfeld has an Israeli accent. Now that he’s singing for American audiences, Gutfeld — a Brooklyn-based, Israeli-born singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist — has been working hard to tone down the guttural articulation. Or he had been, until Wonder Woman Gal...

By Orli Santo

June 20, 2017
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June 20, 2017 5:59 pm

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The Folksbiene reimagines “Amerike” for the Fourth.

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By Orli Santo

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