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April 2, 2012

Rabbi David Wolpe tops Newsweek’s L.A.-heavy list of ‘most influential’ rabbis

Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple is officially the top rabbi in America, according to Newsweek and the Daily Beast. The sixth annual installment of the “Top 50 Rabbis” list, published on April 2, included rabbis who head religious movements, rabbis who lead political and community organizations, and rabbis known for their scholarship and teaching.

How not to feel like a matzah ball on Passover

It\’s April and steel shopping carts clang and collide like bumper cars in the kosher-for-Passover aisle of my local supermarket. Even in this mob I find soul mates, shoppers who share my angst about eating many of the hechshered-for-the-holiday packaged foods. Foods made with what blogger Lisa Rose calls the \”four food groups of Passover: cottonseed oil, MSG, white sugar and potato starch.\”

Annan says Syria agrees to April 10 peace deadline

Syria has pledged to withdraw all military units from towns by April 10 to pave the way for a full ceasefire with rebels two days later, the spokesman for international mediator Kofi Annan said on Monday.

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