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A Yemenite family walks through the desert to a reception camp set up by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee near Aden. Nov. 1, 1949. Credit: Zoltan Kluger/Wikimedia Commons.

Educational outlets launch project to amass testimonies of Jews from the Mizrach

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The San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa) has announced a new partnership program with Israel’s Ministry of Social Equality (MSE), Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of...

Hannah Arendt

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Political theorist Hannah Arendt died on this day in 1975 at age 69. In 1959 she became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton. Arendt was born in Germany on October...
Israeli soldiers in the Nahal Haredi unit seen during a shooting exercise at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan Valley. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.

Navigating fine line between Torah observance and Israeli military service, politics aside

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This past week an organization called “Forum of Reserve Rabbis,” a group of rabbis who serve as reserve soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, released a new 50-page booklet roughly titled in English, “And...
Janice Weinman. Source: YouTube.

Hadassah CEO to step down after nine years at helm

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Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, announces that chief executive officer/executive director Janice Weinman will step down after nine years as the organization’s leader, effective July 1. During her tenure at Hadassah, Weinman worked in...
Elisa Alejandra Trotta with Argentinian President Mauricio Macri. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Venezuela’s Guaidó appoints Jewish envoy to Argentina

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Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaidó, has appointed Elisa Alejandra Trotta Gamus as the country’s envoy to Argentina. A Venezuelan native, Gamus, 36—a lawyer and human-rights activist—was a one-time representative to the Latin American Jewish Congress. Israeli...
U.S. businessman and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, at the opening ceremony of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

With great sorrow: Sheldon Adelson, 1933-2021

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It is with unbearable pain that I announce the death of my husband, Sheldon, of complications from a long illness. Sheldon was the love of my life. He was my partner in romance, philanthropy, political...
Survivors at the Dachau concentration camp cheer their liberation by U.S. soldiers. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

US Senate introduces bipartisan legislation to prioritize health care for Holocaust survivors

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U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced on Thursday legislation that would prioritize health care and nutrition services for Holocaust survivors, increasing the likelihood they could continue to...
New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, Jan. 19, 2014. Credit: Jeffrey Beall via Wikimedia Commons.

New England Patriots star wide receiver Julian Edelman retires from NFL

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New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman announced on Monday that he is retiring from the National Football League due to a knee injury. “Nothing in my career has ever come easy and no surprise,...

December 31: Rabbi Kaiman and Interfaith Marriage

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Reform Rabbi Arnold Kaiman, who conducted numerous interfaith marriages in the Midwest during the 1970s, at a time when few rabbis would do so, died at 74 on this date in 2007. Kaiman, raised...
Herman Wouk. Credit: Screenshot.

Herman Wouk, legendary writer of Jewish sagas and history, dies at age 103

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk died on May 17, just 10 days before his 104th birthday. His literary agent, Amy Rennert, said he passed away in his sleep at his home in Palm Springs, Calif.,...