June 6, 1944, may have been the most important day of the 20th century. The Allied invasion of France breached Hitler\’s Atlantic Wall and decisively turned the war against the Nazi regime.
This is Judaism\’s second holiest site, being that Jacob is the Jewish forefather and as his 12 sons became the 12 tribes of Israel.
There are places you expect to find Jews and places you don\’t, and in the second category, the deck of a pirate ship ranks pretty close to the top
But the truth is that committing to ending the genocide in Darfur has never been more urgent. Darfur activists are facing an unbelievable opportunity to affect real, lasting change in the region. And if we don\’t seize this opportunity now, it could be a very long time before such a window opens again.
\” . . . If we left it to the \’will of the people,\’ would we ever have ended segregation in this country? . . \”
Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, a leading Orthodox thinker and an early champion of women\’s rights, died Dec. 1 in New York. He was 98.
The violent settler response to the evacuation of the building, dubbed the House of Contention by Israeli media and called the Peace House by settlers, was symptomatic of a relatively new phenomenon: growing numbers of radical settlers who feel alienated from the state, don\’t accept its authority and are ready to use violence to prevent it from taking action against settler interests.
Judaism has a lot to say about how to create a balance between using the resources we have and abusing or destroying them.
The Community Tuition Partnership, which will take effect in the 2009-2010 academic year, will lower costs for the entire K-8 student body
Although the cemetery hasn\’t been used in at least 50 years and has long since been declared mundras — no longer sacred — by Muslim authorities, critics of the Center for Human Dignity have charged the Wiesenthal Center with being intolerant in its quest to build a Jerusalem version of its West. L.A. museum.
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