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Story reader training program helps teens develop lifelong skills

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When Amy Bergman devised a plan to train teens how to read to young kids at a Boynton Beach Jewish community center, she had no idea it would have such an impact. . Bergman, the...
Zaouit el Bir Dades Jewish Cemetery, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco. Credit: Joaoleitao/Wikimedia Commons.

Morocco’s Jewish community to hold first democratic elections in five decades

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Morocco’s Jewish community will hold its first elections in half a century to select its communal representatives. King Mohammed VI instructed the Minister of the Interior to supervise elections for the positions, which have been...

Richmond Jewish congregation welcomes refugees to Passover ritual

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They lit candles, praying that those suffering around the world find light in the darkness. Dipping karpas into salt water, they saw the tears of all who suffer injustice. Abdul Jalal Hashimi then watched the...
Gerda Weissmann Klein with former President Barack Obama, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010. Source: Screenshot.

Holocaust survivor, subject of Oscar and Emmy-winning film, dies at 97

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Holocaust survivor and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Gerda Weissmann Klein died on Sunday at age 97. Born in 1924 in Poland, she survived three Nazi concentration camps, where she almost died from exhaustion, overwork...

You can win a Pair of Tickets for the “Campus SuperStar” event, in San...

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Campus SuperStar returns to San Diego, CA. Following its sold out debut last year, Campus SuperStar returns to San Diego on Sunday evening, April 10, 2016. At this spectacular show, ten highly talented vocalists, selected...
Publicity photo of singer/actor Ed Ames from the NBC television program “Daniel Boone.” Credit: Wikipedia. | Wikipedia

‘He was an ardent, farbrente Zionist,’ Mort Klein says of Ed Ames

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Some 15 or 20 years ago, Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, saw a man who looked a lot like entertainer Ed Ames at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
Erich Isaac, seated in jeep (front left) during the War of Independence, 1948. Credit: Isaac Family.

Erich Isaac, 93, fighter for Israel’s independence, Zionist activist, prominent geographer

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One of the last of the Jewish Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Lehi) and first chairman of Americans for A Safe Israel (AFSI) passed away on Nov. 5. He was 93 years old. Dr....
Students celebrate at the BBYO International Convention 2018, which was held in Orland, Fla. Credit: Screenshot.

Largest donation to youth group yet made to BBYO

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Chicago industrialist Theodore Perlman and his wife, Harriette, pledged $25 million to BBYO, making it the largest single donation to a Jewish youth group in the United States. The couple announced the $25 million gift on...

Chassidic matriarch Miriam Friedman, 101, helped holocaust survivors flee to west

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Miriam Friedman, whose life spanned the oppression of Soviet Russia, the chaos of post-World War II Europe and the heady growth of Chabad in the United States and around the world, passed away on...

Hurricane relief fund

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In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the Jewish Federation quickly opened an emergency fund to support the Houston community and others devastated by the storm. Then Hurricane Irma hit, leaving a path of destruction...