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March 18, 2010

How About an Arab ‘Settlement’ Freeze?

When she is surrounded by a swirl of conversation she cannot understand, my two-year-old granddaughter turns to me expectantly: \”What they talking about, Bubbe?\” Right now, I would have to confess to her that the hubbub over 1,600 new housing units in Jerusalem defies rational explanation.

Orthodox Jewish community takes hold in Berlin

When American Rabbi Joshua Spinner moved to Berlin\’s trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood a decade ago, there were no other Jews to be seen.\n\nNow when the sun sets on a Friday night, dozens of Jewish men clad in traditional Shabbat garb with big black hats and dark long coats walk down the streets past hip coffee shops, chic boutiques and tiny art galleries to attend services at Rykestrasse synagogue.

Oy! His Mother’s Italian. His Father’s Jewish. And he’s funny

Don’t let your ears deceive you.\n\n“My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy” really is a one-man show, even if that man – Steve Solomon – voices 30 different characters in the roughly 90 minute performance, which runs at the Booth Playhouse in Charlotte through Sunday.\n

Rubashkin sentencing set

Sentencing for a former official of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant has been set for April 28.

Why a Jewish camp?

With winter’s snow at an end, thousands of parents are now imagining their children swimming in a mountain lake after a long, hot run in the summer sun as they send off applications for their children to attend summer camp. But only some parents will choose a camp that can also help build their child’s Jewish connections, identity and pride while they also enjoy a seemingly endless choice of camp activities.

Memoir’s Glimpse of Anne Frank Draws Skepticism

Frail, cold and surrounded by death, the Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales, a survivor of the camp says.\n

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