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Passion at Chabad House Bowery

 26.02.2014

Sam Stelzer- ’14 talking about the need for passion in Judaism

Centre for Jewish Life – London

Sephardic History  The Jewish Theological Seminary

28.11.2011

A 6 part introduction to Medieval Jewish History with JTS Professor Benjamin Gampel.

Artist Alex Levin captures Jewish life and faith, JN1

19.02.2014

JN1, Jewish News One. Artist Alex Levin captures Jewish life and faith
http://jn1.tv/video/culture?media_id=…

Tel Aviv by Alex Levin, Israel and more …

Jewish Homes_Visionaries Dev Vers.mov

Sunday, February 9,

Ari Goldwag Am Echad – One Nation – Official Music Video ארי גולדוואג – עם אחד – קליפ הרשמי

08.09.2013

Ari Goldwag singing Am Echad – One Nation.
ארי גולדוואג שר עם אחד.

אני אש – רן דנקר ועילי בוטנר

 05.04.2008

קליפ שצילמתי וערכתי
עבור רן דנקר ועילי בוטנר
מתוך האלבום “שווים” – אני אש

Lviv “Klez Fest” 2013

03.09.2013

клип снял Николай Рязанов

Alexei Kuznetsov – Israel

24.02.2014

ALEXEI KUZNETSOV [RUS] – Concert in the Olympic Village #1 (1985)
Melodiya, C60-22851-000
http://progresyvusisrokas.blogspot.com

Eli ( Iliya ) Raikhlin_Titora Institute of Art Development. Concert Final 2009. ( Modi’in, Israel )

24.02.2014

Fatoumata Diawara – Sonkolon – Live in Holon

04.03.2013

Great concert, very strong live performer, singer & dancer with happy making personality – Fatoumata Diawara from Mali live at Holon Theater in Holon Israel on 1st March 2013 (as part of the “Holon International Women’s Festival”).
פטומאטה דיוארה, תיאטרון חולון

Playing with
Greg Emonet – guitar
Jean-Alain Hohy – bass
Jean-Baptiste Ekoué Gbadoé – percussion
Corine Thuy-Thy – vocals

You find the song on the first album of Fatoumata Diawara ‘Fatou’, 2011 WorldCircuit

For more Fatou go to:
Website – http://fatoumatadiawara.fr/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/FatouMusic

News about Chabad-Lubavitch

By Menachem Posner
Across the generations, a special bond is fostered during a weekend of activities, lectures, spirituality and entertainment

Faithful & Fortified – Director’s Screening – Live Jewish Video –Chabad

You can hear the whole song here: Chabad.org/140790. Editor. July 29, 2012. Music. Can anyone tell me what the name of the song playing at 8:10 is …

HISTORIC MEETING OF GEDOLIM: Standing Firm in the Face of Threatened Chareidi Draft

The used the meeting to release a letter explaining the position of the joint Torah Councils, which is representative of all chareidi Jewry in Eretz Yisrael …

Blending Torah and Activism (Pekudey, Exodus 38:21-40-38)

I am a scholar and teacher, having devoted much of my life to shaping a Judaism that will work both for me and for others in our contemporary world.

Washington Jewish Film Festival to feature 64 films from 18 countries, beginning Thursday

During the seven-day Sukkot holiday, families eat their meals in them and occasionally sleep in them. The film is screening March 6, at the JCC in …

Jewish LIFE to host ‘A Night To Celebrate Isreal’ event

Jewish LIFE—Learning Is For Everyone—invites community members to the Second Annual A Night to Celebrate Israel on Thursday, April 3, at 6:30 …

In the Talmud, Jews Losing Touch With the Everyday Words of the Holy Land

But in our own time, the question has returned to the center of Jewish life. Every month, it seems, another American Jewish writer publishes a book …

Shalom, Latvia: A Jewish Culture Guide

Today, there are an estimated 9,000 Jews living in Latvia, with the majority …Throughout the 1920’s until the mid 1930’s, Jewish life flourished in the …

Jewish communal awareness of disabilities is growing, but advocates say not enough

In the fall, Manhattan’s first Jewish day school for children with special … Jews with disabilities are “far more alienated” from Jewish life than Jews in …

Two Books Explore New Perspectives on the Talmud, With a Focus on Women

… they have become integrated into her life and outlook. In Are You Not a Man of God?: Devotion, Betrayal, and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition, …

A New ‘Mosaic’ For Westchester

Westchester’s year-old Mosaic group aims to make the wider Jewish … “It’s about the full integration of this community into Westchester Jewish life,” …

Jewish organizations provide free Shabbat meals to students

Organizations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison like the Jewish … UW Hillel’s Director of JewishStudent Life Jennifer Jennings said Shabbat “is …

NY Center for Jewish History uploading gigapixel image to Google Art Project

The Center for Jewish History in New York City has announced that it will … Next, it will upload 50 watercolors showing Jewish life in sub-Saharan …

Pesky guard carries Jewish Day to PVAC title

The Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School girls’ basketball team defeated Covenant Life decisively Saturday night to win the Potomac Valley Athletic …

Klez Puts On Scottish Plaid

“We fast-forward about a hundred years to late baroque/early classical music in Scotland,” she says. “It’s a giant leap. The only known Jewish music …

Jewish world jams together, but what kind of music will it produce?

Caption: From Jerusalem, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett (left) and Chairman of the Executive for The Jewish Agency for Israel …

Jewish Comics Anthology Needs Your Help Our exclusive interview with contributor Liat Shalom

Now her work is set to appear alongside Spiegelman and other Jewish … will “illustrate additional fascinating folk tales and stories from Jewish culture.

A Charged Photo Shoot

Conflict between brothers is a familiar theme in Jewish culture, from warring brothers in the Torah to sibling rivalry in Joel and Ethan Coen’s “A Serious …

Purim events in the community

The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage will host a pre-Purim community day starting … The events kick off at 10 a.m. Sunday, March 2 with the Ultimate …

Hosting Israel critics? Jewish institutions damned if they do, damned if they don’t

Protesters gathered outside New York’s 14th Street Y in May 2012 after the Jewishinstitution canceled a “Go and Learn” event that Jewish Voice for …

On This Date in 1881

The small nucleus of the Zionist movement emerged with the conviction that the events in Russia signaled that Jews would never be free except in the …

Archive Comes To Life At New Holocaust Education Center

It means I work with the museum’s collection of artifacts and archives relating to the Holocaust, pre-warJewish life and post-war rebuilding. I catalog …

Feud Over Israel Erupts at Jewish Institutions

But their perceived criticism led all three to be shunned by major Jewish … and demographer who specializes in contemporary American Jewish life, .

Mega challah-baking event to be held in Chandler

… will host Loaves of Love, a challah-baking event, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 2, at the Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, …

Napoleon: A Modern-Day ‘Messiah’?

Auction find reveals that the dictator drove to give full rights to French Jewry, fashion himself as the savior of Jewish life there. By Tova Dvorin.

Free books — 10 million of them — help keep Jewish kidsJewish

Free books — 10 million of them — help keep Jewish kids Jewish … other signs that young Jews are growing ever more disconnected from Jewish life.

The launch of a European manifesto for the UK Jewish community

The Board of Deputies of British Jews’ manifesto was written with … certain issues are of such integral importance to Jewish life flourishing in Europe.

Letters the Week of Feb. 27, 2014

We also want to live Jewish lives that make us feel comfortable. … Judaism and religion in general that makes “life in an open society” such a threat?

What Jewish Museums Won’t Show

Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust … the 1930’s dismissed the routine caricatures of Jewish life as adolescent rants, …

The Jewish Press » » Archive Comes To Life At New Holocaust Education Center

The Jewish Press ⋅ Shoshana Batya Greenwald
It means I work with the museum’s collection of artifacts and archives relating to the Holocaust, pre-warJewish life and post-war rebuilding. I catalog …

Orthodox woman trains as Halacha adviser

Years later, London applied to a women’s study program at Ohr Torah Stone’s Midreshet Lindenbaum College in Jerusalem, which certifies women to …

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spends a weekend in L.A. envisioning the Jewish future

He wasn’t leafing through the Talmud, and he didn’t have in mind a specific passage from the Torah. He wasn’t even looking for a Jewish text. He was …

L.A. music fest aims to prove Sephardic culture rocks

“Initially, I came out [to L.A. to work] more on the music side, and then I … Sephardicmusic traces its roots to the Jews of medieval Spain and is often …

Jewish world jams together, but what kind of music will it produce?

From Jerusalem, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett (left) and Chairman of the Executive for The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan …

Rebellion, outsiderhood and super-cool: The Jewish roots of punk

Punk was ‘the next generation of Jews who went around putting sticks in the eyes of the older Jews in the music business.’ By Haaretz | Feb. 26, 2014 …

Evan Al & Yoeli Greenfeld to Release Wedding CD – Jewish Music Report

Jewish Music Report ⋅ Jewish Music Reporter
Exciting news! Evan Al, the well known famous Jewish band is releasing an album with Yoeli Greenfeld singing vocals. We now have the cover this …

Volunteers ease food-scarcity shame quietly, gently

In addition to weekly Shabbat meals, Tomchei Shabbos helps families with food and gift cards around theJewish holidays. “At Passover, for instance, …

What is the name ‘Purim’ all about?

The names of religious holidays are usually fairly straightforward, pointing … the day on which the Jews of Susa (or Shushan) were to be massacred.

 

C-SPAN | Jewish Life in America
Ms. Balser and Mr. Foxman talked about the status of Jews in the U.S., the history of Jewish life …
c-span.org
New JCC aims to nurture Jewish life in Boulder …
“They wanted to create a place for Jewish life to flourish in Boulder,” said Jonathan Lev …
dailycamera.com
Jewish Music Report ⋅ Jewish Music Reporter
Concerts, General, News, Photo Gallery — By Jewish Music Reporter on February 24, 2014 6:00 pm. ezagui1801 · ezagui1802 · ezagui1803 …

Not Your Grandparents’ Sukkah: A Film Bound to Inspire

Like the historic project itself, the film explores the complexities of the meaning and observance of Sukkot— religious, cultural and architectural.
Ukrainian Jews adjusting to life in uncertain times
Jerusalem Post
“For a few weeks it’s still OK,” he said, “but if this continues, then it will start to undo the fabric of the community and we will see damage to Jewish life, which has really progressed in this country.” Rabbi Moshe Azman of Kiev, who is another …
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Archive Comes To Life At New Holocaust Education Center
The Jewish Press
It means I work with the museum’s collection of artifacts and archives relating to the Holocaust, pre-war Jewish life and post-war rebuilding. I catalog, preserve and sometimes research and authenticate artifacts and I inventory, arrange and explain …
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The Jewish American Identity Crisis
Onislam.net
Halkin is the author of the newly republished book, Letters to an American Jewish Friend, which urges American Jews to immigrate to Israel — the only place, he argues, where a “full Jewish life” can be led. He urges American Jews not to criticize …
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Free books _ 10 million of them _ help keep Jewish kids Jewish
Washington Post
“I love the Jewish people,” said Grinspoon, 84, who worries about rising rates of intermarriage among Jews and other signs that young Jews are growing ever more disconnected from Jewish life. “If I can bring something warm and fuzzy in the form of the…
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Mega challah-baking event to be held in Chandler
Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
Chabad of the East Valley’s Chabad Women’s Circle, East Valley Hadassah groups and women from the East Valley JCC will host Loaves of Love, a challah-baking event, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 2, at the Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N.
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Napoleon: A Modern-Day ‘Messiah’?
Arutz Sheva
Auction find reveals that the dictator drove to give full rights to French Jewry, fashion himself as the savior of Jewish life there. By Tova Dvorin. First Publish: 2/26/2014, 6:09 PM. Napoloeon: A Jewish connection? Kedem Auction House. An antique …
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Wanted: Naughty Jewish Boys
Shalom Life
You may have heard of JDate, a website that links single Jews together for (hopefully) lasting and meaningful relationships. You may have also heard of their “2014 Nice JewishGuys” calendar that features Jewish men “you can bring home to mom.”.
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Letters the Week of Feb. 27, 2014
Jewish Exponent
If our only goal is to have Jewish grandchildren, then we Conservative and Reform Jews should fake it and become Orthodox Jews. But that is not our only goal. We also want to live Jewish lives that make us feel comfortable. Unfortunately, that means …
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Peres praises Foxman for serving the Jewish cause
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“We in Israel value your leadership and dedicated commitment to our security and the cause of peace, and your unshakeable engagement in shaping a safe, peaceful and promising tomorrow for Jewish life.” Tags: Breaking News, Abraham Foxman, ADL, …
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Communal awareness of disabilities grows
Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
However, Laszlo Mizrahi says Jews with disabilities are “far more alienated” from Jewish life than Jews in general because many have been turned away from, or not had their needs met by, Jewish institutions. “If you have a disability and, say, want to …
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Boulder Jewish Film Festival

boulderjcc.org/

Sponsored by The Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James

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Prayers at the Kotel for You Now!

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Artist Alex Levin captures Jewish life and faith, JN1

19.02.2014

JN1, Jewish News One. Artist Alex Levin captures Jewish life and faith
http://jn1.tv/video/culture?media_id=…

Tel Aviv by Alex Levin, Israel and more …

Jewish Homes_Visionaries Dev Vers.mov

Sunday, February 9,

Ari Goldwag Am Echad – One Nation – Official Music Video ארי גולדוואג – עם אחד – קליפ הרשמי

08.09.2013

Ari Goldwag singing Am Echad – One Nation.
ארי גולדוואג שר עם אחד.

אני אש – רן דנקר ועילי בוטנר

 05.04.2008

קליפ שצילמתי וערכתי
עבור רן דנקר ועילי בוטנר
מתוך האלבום “שווים” – אני אש

Lviv “Klez Fest” 2013

03.09.2013

клип снял Николай Рязанов

Alexei Kuznetsov – Israel

24.02.2014

ALEXEI KUZNETSOV [RUS] – Concert in the Olympic Village #1 (1985)
Melodiya, C60-22851-000
http://progresyvusisrokas.blogspot.com

Eli ( Iliya ) Raikhlin_Titora Institute of Art Development. Concert Final 2009. ( Modi’in, Israel )

24.02.2014

Fatoumata Diawara – Sonkolon – Live in Holon

04.03.2013

Great concert, very strong live performer, singer & dancer with happy making personality – Fatoumata Diawara from Mali live at Holon Theater in Holon Israel on 1st March 2013 (as part of the “Holon International Women’s Festival”).
פטומאטה דיוארה, תיאטרון חולון

Playing with
Greg Emonet – guitar
Jean-Alain Hohy – bass
Jean-Baptiste Ekoué Gbadoé – percussion
Corine Thuy-Thy – vocals

You find the song on the first album of Fatoumata Diawara ‘Fatou’, 2011 WorldCircuit

For more Fatou go to:
Website – http://fatoumatadiawara.fr/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/FatouMusic

Photos from the YI of KGH Concert with Fried, Pruz, Lipa, NYBC & Nachas – Jewish Music Report

Jewish Music Report ⋅ Jewish Music Reporter
Concerts, General, News, Photo Gallery — By Jewish Music Reporter on February 24, 2014 6:00 pm. ezagui1801 · ezagui1802 · ezagui1803 …

Not Your Grandparents’ Sukkah: A Film Bound to Inspire

Like the historic project itself, the film explores the complexities of the meaning and observance of Sukkot— religious, cultural and architectural.

Boulder Jewish Film Festival

boulderjcc.org/

Sponsored by The Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James

https://asoft6129.accrisoft.com/boulderjcc/clientuploads/Logos-BJCC/banner_BJFF14_main.jpg

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum’s tale of two cities | Culture | Jewish Journal

WhatsApp’s Ukrainian Jewish founder and CEO Jan Koun became a household name this week. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images). Jan Koum’s birthday …

Ramis was a filmmaker with a questioning soul

“Comedy has always played an important role in Jewish culture, and Ramis was an exceptional comedic writer and director. He made incredibly …

Israelis living in the Diaspora: Like the desert generation

Secular Israelis generally feel little connection to God, religion, Jewish culture or heritage. We exhibit a lack of interest in anything that reminds us of …

Jewish history, art and culture featured at Limmud

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jewish community’s fourth annual Limmud weekend (March 1-2) will feature a wide variety of speakers and topics, …

Jewish Cultural Celebration Hits Queen Mary

They participate in a hundred diverse programs that focus on art, culture, music, spirituality and philosophy of the Jewish faith. While the event is …

 A Visit With Nachum Segal, Avatar of Modern Orthodox Sincerity

I get much-appreciated support from Jewish organizations. I lend my name and presence to trips and events, and you would be surprised at the range …
Jewish LIFE to host ‘A Night To Celebrate Isreal’ event
Hunterdon County Democrat
Jewish LIFE—Learning Is For Everyone—invites community members to the Second Annual A Night to Celebrate Israel on Thursday, April 3, at 6:30 p.m. This event will benefit the community’s support of Israel Bonds and The State of Israel, and will be …
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This Day in Jewish History / A painter of Rothschilds and Rothschild of …
Haaretz
Beginning in the 1860s, Oppenheim also painted a popular series of 20 works, “Scenes from Traditional Jewish Life,” genre paintings later redone in lithograph – so that they could be reproduced in albums – depicting Jewish holidays and life-cycle events.
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Jewish communal awareness of disabilities is growing, but advocates say not …
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Laszlo Mizrahi, who was the founder and longtime director of The Israel Project, a group shaping public perceptions of Israel, says that certain genetic risks and the tendency of American Jews to have children later in life means Jews likely have more …
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Two Books Explore New Perspectives on the Talmud, With a Focus on Women
Tablet Magazine
In showing readers how she finds her way to seeing what is going on in each of her texts, she is demonstrating how they have become integrated into her life and outlook. In Are You Not a Man of God?: Devotion, Betrayal, and Social Criticism in Jewish …
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Another ‘Open Hillel’
The Jewish Week
“We believe that fostering a pluralistic community and supporting all Jewish life on campus cannot be achieved with Hillel International’s Israel Guidelines in place.” Naomi Dann, VJU’s president told The Jewish Week that her organization aligned …
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Shalom, Latvia: A Jewish Culture Guide
Shalom Life
Under the new constitution, Jews were granted complete civil liberties. By 1925, according to official statistics 95,675 Jews lived in Latvia. Throughout the 1920’s until the mid 1930’s,Jewish life flourished in the country. However, Karlis Ulmanis …
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A New ‘Mosaic’ For Westchester
The Jewish Week
“It’s about the full integration of this community into Westchester Jewish life,” she said. That translates into a dedicated outreach effort to synagogue clergy, executive directors and religious school leaders. The message, said Raskin, is, “We are …
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Wesleyan president slams NY Jewish community for suppressing differences …
Mondoweiss
The Jerusalem Program adopted by the World Zionist Organization in l968 reaffirmed the centrality of Israel in Jewish life. Among others, the program aimed at preserving Jewish identity through fostering Hebrew education and other contacts with Israel.
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Ukraine Jews hunkering down amid turmoil
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Rabinovich rejected as untrue foreign press reports of mass anti-Semitism in the country and called them “not conducive to a peaceful life of the Jewish community.” He vowed that the Jewish community would participate “in building a democratic state …
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Vassar Opts For ‘Open Hillel’
The Jewish Week
“We believe that fostering a pluralistic community and supporting all Jewish life on campus cannot be achieved with Hillel International’s Israel Guidelines in place.” Naomi Dann, VJU’s president told The Jewish Week that her organization aligned …
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Badchan @ Sheva Brochos For An Einikel Of …
Badchan @ Sheva Brochos For An Einikel Of Karlsburg Ruv Together With Purim Katan Tish 5774.
frumtube.com
Purim Katan Children’s Rally – Program 493 …
The Rebbe participates in a lively children’s rally on Purim Katan in 770.
chabad.org
Nachum and Avraham Fried are Gearing Up for …
Excitement continues to mount as the Queens College Pre-PurimCelebration starring the …
nachumsegal.c

Section Events, Jewish Life : 24JEWISH ALERTS large selection in each section

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Ari Goldwag Am Echad – One Nation – Official Music Video ארי גולדוואג – עם אחד – קליפ הרשמי

08.09.2013

Ari Goldwag singing Am Echad – One Nation.
ארי גולדוואג שר עם אחד.

אני אש – רן דנקר ועילי בוטנר

 05.04.2008

קליפ שצילמתי וערכתי
עבור רן דנקר ועילי בוטנר
מתוך האלבום “שווים” – אני אש

Lviv “Klez Fest” 2013

03.09.2013

клип снял Николай Рязанов

Alexei Kuznetsov – Israel

24.02.2014

ALEXEI KUZNETSOV [RUS] – Concert in the Olympic Village #1 (1985)
Melodiya, C60-22851-000
http://progresyvusisrokas.blogspot.com

Eli ( Iliya ) Raikhlin_Titora Institute of Art Development. Concert Final 2009. ( Modi’in, Israel )

24.02.2014

Fatoumata Diawara – Sonkolon – Live in Holon

04.03.2013

Great concert, very strong live performer, singer & dancer with happy making personality – Fatoumata Diawara from Mali live at Holon Theater in Holon Israel on 1st March 2013 (as part of the “Holon International Women’s Festival”).
פטומאטה דיוארה, תיאטרון חולון

Playing with
Greg Emonet – guitar
Jean-Alain Hohy – bass
Jean-Baptiste Ekoué Gbadoé – percussion
Corine Thuy-Thy – vocals

You find the song on the first album of Fatoumata Diawara ‘Fatou’, 2011 WorldCircuit

For more Fatou go to:
Website – http://fatoumatadiawara.fr/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/FatouMusic

Photos from the YI of KGH Concert with Fried, Pruz, Lipa, NYBC & Nachas – Jewish Music Report

Jewish Music Report ⋅ Jewish Music Reporter
Concerts, General, News, Photo Gallery — By Jewish Music Reporter on February 24, 2014 6:00 pm. ezagui1801 · ezagui1802 · ezagui1803 …

Not Your Grandparents’ Sukkah: A Film Bound to Inspire

Like the historic project itself, the film explores the complexities of the meaning and observance of Sukkot— religious, cultural and architectural.

Boulder Jewish Film Festival

boulderjcc.org/

Sponsored by The Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James

https://asoft6129.accrisoft.com/boulderjcc/clientuploads/Logos-BJCC/banner_BJFF14_main.jpg

Show uses music, dance to focus on diversity
Sun-Sentinel
“Many Cultures, One People,” the Jewish Family Service of Broward County’s March 23 show at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, will shine the theatrical spotlight on South Florida’s diversity. The 5:30 p.m., two-and-a-half hour show will include …
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First government-backed Jewish Theology school in Germany hailed as …
Fox News
The school– which will launch six new professorships—also has enrolled 49 students from Germany, Israel, Eastern Europe, and the U.S. Students will choose from subjects including liturgy, Jewish music history, and English, and can work towards …
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A Visit With Nachum Segal, Avatar of Modern Orthodox Sincerity
Tablet Magazine
But his agenda is no child’s game. Segal heads up what he calls his “Jewish Radio Empire”: Since 1983, he has hosted a live music and talk radio show every weekday morning from 6:00 to 9:00 on WFMU at 91.1FM in the New York area, now web streamed …
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With Olive Oil, Olim Spread the Light of Torah
The Jewish Press
“The whole purpose,” says Abrahams, “is to use the oil to spread light… and light isTorah.” To highlight the importance of trees, the pair, along with local rabbis and other community members, unveiled the organization this past Tu b’Shvat. The …
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Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein to receive Israel Prize
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“Rabbi Lichtenstein’s works are a wonderful combination of deep, fluid familiarity with all aspects of Jewish scholarship, with an ability to take deep Torah concepts and make them palatable to the average Israeli,” Piron said in his announcement …
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Rabbinic Student From Ukraine, 25, Diligent Scholar and Caring Teacher
Chabad.org
Gedalya Grinzaid, a 25-year old rabbinical student from Ukraine, was killed Sunday after being struck by a city sanitation truck in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was said to be a diligent student and gentle teacher who dedicated his short life to Torah study and …
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Holocaust Torah at FWB temple repaired
The Northwest Florida Daily News
Temple Beth Shalom of Fort Walton Beach became custodian, on loan from the Westminster Synagogue, of Torah No. 816 in 1986. Rabbi Yochanan Salazar-Loewe, who started repair work, examines the Torah. This Torah was rescued from the town of …
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Trailblazing Conferences: Torah and Tahara
Yeshiva World News
Trailblazing Conferences: Torah and Tahara. (Monday, February 24th, 2014). Blank Title Home On a recent whirlwind tour to the United States, wrapping up the weeks of Shovavim, Rav Yitzchak Melber, founding director of Toras HaMishpacha, was fuelled by …
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Elsewhere: Hasidic development feud, Montessori schools teach Torah, Beilis …
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Montessori schools teach Torah: A new generation of Jewish parents are looking to Montessori schools to enrich their children’s religious education. (N.Y. Times). Hasidic development feud: Plans to launch a new Hasidic village in upstate New York have …
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Leading haredi rabbi: We will fight to the death against IDF enlistment
Jerusalem Post
Speaking to a gathering of loyalists and young yeshiva students in Jerusalem late Saturday night, Auerbach said that “the right of the state [to exist] is bound up in the merit of strengthening the Torah. When the state plots against the Torah, it has …
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Traces of Jewish Life Vanishing in Slovakia
Jewish Daily Forward
When I was growing up, we Jews made up nearly a third of the city. We had synagogues, schools, a number of communal organizations, even a couple of Hebrew publishing houses. Then came the Holocaust. Only several hundred of us survived. Some of us …
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In the Talmud, Jews Losing Touch With the Everyday Words of the Holy Land
Tablet Magazine
But in our own time, the question has returned to the center of Jewish life. Every month, it seems, another American Jewish writer publishes a book about Israel, either to praise or, more often recently, to condemn; and these books are in part …
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Guest Column: Don’t gamble with Jewish lives
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
As a Jew and Israeli citizen, I too cannot be quiet. I served as an Israeli soldier when in 2005 Israel removed thousands of families from Gaza and northern Samaria, destroying thelives and livelihood of thousands of Jewish Israeli citizens for peace …
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Salmond enjoys a snapshot of Jewish life
Jewish Chronicle
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond highlighted the Jewish contribution to the nation at a reception at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Tuesday night. Mr Salmond was guest of honour at the launch of a photographic exhibition by Judah Passow …
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A Life Of Music, Forgiveness And Optimism
The Jewish Week (blog)
The opening showing of my pre-Oscar night nominated shorts marathon was 10:35 Sunday morning. I was one of half-a-dozen people nestled in IFC’s coziest screening room to view “The Lady in No.6,” which enhanced my experience falling in love with the …
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Jewish group condemns new Ugandan anti-gay law
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
After Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a bill assigning a lifesentence to some forms of homosexual activity, the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), which has made LGBT rights its foremost issue, swiftly responded.
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Chabad Representatives in Ukraine Stay Put, Appeal for Help
Lubavitch.com
Chabad representatives—there are roughly 70 couples serving Jewish life Ukraine, which has an estimated Jewish population of 300,000—are not leaving. In interviews with lubavitch.com, they echoed similar attitudes, saying that their role is to serve …
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Meet the Jewish students who are taking on the Jewish establishment
Mondoweiss
I never expected to be involved (especially not to this extent) in Jewish life in college, but found myself in a welcoming Jewish community that became a home to me at Vassar in a number of ways. Jewishness is important to me because of the strong …
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Chicago Jewish filmmaker Harold Ramis dies at 69
Jewish United Fund
Having worked through that, I started looking at other concerns I have, like the movie Vacation was about what it was to be a good father and a good husband, two very difficult things to do in life. Then I made three films–Groundhog Day, Multiplicity …
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Birthright-style trips to Israel target ‘active adults’
Sun-Sentinel
Plotkin — who recently started an organization in Boca Raton called Liumi — Israel Center for Jewish Life — previously served as the rabbi for the University of Miami Hillel and the Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach County. He has been involved with …
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Special-needs awareness part of daily diet

“We celebrate all the major Jewish holidays with appropriate festivities,” Wolosow said. “In addition, important Jewish traditions are covered, such as …