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Remembering Don Peretz, Jewish scholar of Palestinian refugees (1922-2017)

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Dr. Don Peretz, a leading scholar of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian refugees at SUNY-Binghamton and a Jewish peace activist, died on April 29, 2017 in Mitchellville, Md. He was 94. Long before the Israeli...

Holy water: reclaiming an ancient Jewish ritual

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"This is my first time at the mikvah with such short hair, " says Rachell Goldberg. "My hair started growing back after my chemo. Up top here is probably what, one inch long?" Goldberg, 38,...

JCRC tour illuminates issues on U.S.-Mexico border

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wenty-seven people joined the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona for a tour of Arizona’s border with Mexico on May 3. The day included a visit to the site...

Manila deploys commandos, helicopters to retake city from islamists

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The Philippines mobilized attack helicopters and special forces to drive Islamic State-linked rebels out of a besieged southern city on Thursday, with six soldiers killed in street combat amid heavy resistance. Ground troops hid behind...

Conversion: time to end the stigma

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Last month, I did something I never thought I’d do — not publicly, anyway. Until recently, I wouldn’t have entertained the idea. But in April, I wrote in the JC about Pesach in the...

Revelation for the resistance

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What precisely are we showing up to receive? The debate over the extent of revelation has raged for millennia: Were the ten utterances revealed? Or the five books? Or did Moses simply receive the...

Bad jews’ director says characters’ histrionics not about stereotypes

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Journalists writing about a play usually aren’t invited to see the actors perform until opening night. But 11 days before the Toronto premiere of Bad Jews, Joshua Harmon’s hit play, I arrive at the...

Jewish culinary cuisines continue to evolve

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When it comes to Jewish food, it can be defined in different ways: For Steven Cook, it was his mother’s matzo ball soup made with onion soup mix; for Joan Nathan, it was canned...

Bulgarian deputy PM defends ‘jokes’ about Holocaust

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Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov is under fire after reportedly making light of anti-Semitism and cracking jokes about the Holocaust. Pavel Tenev, appointed as a deputy minister from the United Patriots party in the...

Facebook ‘irresponsible,’ should treat anti-Jewish online terror like child porn

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On Thursday, a federal judge in New York dismissed two lawsuits that sought to hold Facebook liable for allegedly providing a platform for terrorists. The case was brought by two groups of plaintiffs, one a group of 20,000...