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Menorah Lighting Comes to New Jersey Prisons

Jewish inmates in New Jersey state prisons will be permitted, for the first time in a uniform policy, to celebrate Chanukah with lit menorahs.Matt Schuman, spokesperson with the New Jersey Department of Corrections, said in the past, the prison system’s policy on menorah lighting during Chanukah was decided on a case-by-case basis.“We wanted to have a uniform policy that applies ...

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Memphis Teens ‘Do a Mitzvah’ During Maccabi Games

The finale of the JCC Maccabi Games in Memphis, Tennessee, took place last Friday.  The games lasted five days, with over 1,250 young Jewish athletes and several thousand guests who came from across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Israel.A special area of the JCC’s main lobby was designated for the Chabad “I did a Mitzvah” stand, which became an ...

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Memorial built at site of Auschwitz oven builders

A memorial site and educational center to open this week on International Holocaust Remembrance Day documents the role played by a German maker of crematoria in the mass execution of Europe’s Jews and others.Hitler’s top men dreamed up the horrors of the Holocaust, but without the support of German engineers and industrialists like Topf & Sons, they would never have ...

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Members of Baltimore Synagogue Visit Israel

This past week, over 25 members of Congregation Bnei Jacob Shaarei Zion (BJSZ) in Baltimore took part in a week-long chizuk (strengthening) and solidarity mission to Israel lead by the congregation’s rabbi, Rav Moshe Hauer.The group had a full itinerary that included stops in all parts of the country, be it showing solidarity in Sderot, visiting Baltimore’s sister city Ashkelon, ...

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Melbourne Russian Jews Celebrate Purim in New Shul

The Chabad on Carlisle-Jewish Russian Community Centre in Melbourne, directed by Rabbi C. E. Gorelik and Rabbi Y. Sufrin, hosted two Purim functions which were attended by over 160 people.The first was held on Purim night for students and young adults over 18. The program included the ‘Stray Cats’ as performing entertainers, megillah reading by Rabbi Mendy Mishulovin and full ...

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Mel Gibson’s work on Jewish film ‘frankly preposterous,’ rabbi says

Mel Gibson will not have an acting role in a movie about Jewish historical icon Judah Maccabee, although he may direct the film, Gibson’s representative said Friday.The possibility of Gibson’s involvement in the Warner Bros. Studios production brought harsh reactions from some Jewish leaders in the United States, including Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.“I ...

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Meir Panim Lets Families Celebrate Pesach in Style

While the ancient Israelites were miraculously able to rid themselves of back-breaking bondage and enter the Promised Land with the riches taken from their Egyptian taskmasters, hundreds of thousands of less fortunate Jews in modern day Israel have had to rely upon the every-day miracles performed by  Meir Panim’s angelic volunteers in order to celebrate Pesach without being enslaved by ...

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Meet the YAPPIES – “Young Aliyah Professionals”

You’ve heard the “Yuppies”, a term that first came into use in the early 1980s that stands for “Young Urban Professionals.”  Well today in the new millennium we have a new group of young Jews that can be called Yappies, or “Young Aliyah Professionals.” These are smart, young Jews who were educated outside of Israel. They have obtained professional status ...

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Meet the Polish neo-Nazi skinhead couple who discovered they are JEWISH – and turned their lives around

A married couple have revealed how they turned their backs on their violent neo-Nazi past – after discovering they were both Jewish.The one-time skinheads grew up as part of a hate-filled white power gang in Warsaw, the capital of Poland and once the site of the largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.But now they are devout members of an Orthodox ...

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Meet the Only Jewish MP in the Muslim World

Yehuda “Yavda” Abramov, who is accompanying Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mamadiarov on his visit to Israel, is apparently the only Jewish Member of Parliament in the entire Muslim world.Abramov, who is also the chairman of the Israel-Azerbaijan Inter-Parliamentary Committee, told Arutz Sheva he does not see anything extraordinary about his status.“I do not see anything special in the fact that a Jew ...

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Medvedev: Iran ‘ignoring questions’ about nuclear program

Washington ( CNN ) — Iran is ignoring questions from the international community about its nuclear program, using “small phrases” to make “small suggestions,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.Medvedev said he does not support crippling sanctions that can hurt the people of Iran, “but if nothing happens, we will have to use sanctions.”Read More: @ edition.cnn.comTags: Iran nuclear program, Medvedev, nuclear, nuclear program

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Medvedev: As we did in 1988, Russia still recognizes an independent Palestine

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev endorsed a Palestinian state on Tuesday, saying Moscow had recognized independence in 1988 and was not changing the position adopted by the former Soviet Union.Making his first visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank as Russian head of state, Medvedev stopped short of issuing a ringing declaration of recognition of Palestinian statehood by the modern Russian Federation ...

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