Quebec cuts funding to Chasidic schools
Jewish Journal
December 9, 2009
Quebec has ended a 24-year arrangement that allowed fervently Orthodox Jewish students to study at a Montreal junior college at public expense.
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December 9, 2009
Get your free menorahs!
Jewish Journal
December 9, 2009
Chabad-Lubavitch is offering a menorah to college students who request one.
‘Chanukah Caravan’ visiting Scandinavia
Jewish Journal
December 9, 2009
The \”Chanukah Caravan\” is visiting Scandinavia.
Palestinians try to smuggle bombs past checkpoints
Jewish Journal
December 9, 2009
A Palestinian man was stopped at a checkpoint north of Jerusalem after he tried to smuggle in six pipe bombs.
Why Harvey Weinstein is like his lead, director Guido Contini in “Nine”
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December 9, 2009
A Wikipedia-style siddur is revolutionizing the world of prayerbooks
Jewish Journal
December 9, 2009
In his 1954 book \”Man’s Quest for God,\” theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, bemoaning what he saw as a post-Holocaust religious malaise, took aim at those who chose to blame the prayerbook for Judaism’s woes.
New Rules for L.A./Tel Aviv Student Trips
Jewish Journal
December 9, 2009
Israel’s Ministry of Education’s decision this week to change the way student exchange programs are operated and possibly funded could have a significant impact on the exchange programs that exist between Jewish day schools in Los Angeles and Tel Aviv, among others.
Parashat Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23)
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
December 9, 2009
Back in grade school, the story of Yehuda and Tamar was always deemed too racy to teach. Our teacher skipped that one episode, and looking back it’s difficult to argue against the omission. Can you imagine explaining to elementary school students what a harlot is?
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