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September 9, 2015

The year of the creative in Jewish education

This week, countless young children in Jewish schools of all varieties will bring home familiar handmade crafts for the Jewish New Year: paper towel tube shofarot, “stained glass” honey dishes made of plastic bowls and colored with markers, and decorated “Shanah Tovah” cards.

Obituaries: Week of September 11th

Bernard Aronson died Aug. 16 at 98. Survived by daughters Marcy (Al) Welland, Laurie (Chuck) Mondrus; 6 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren. Hillside

Paying to pray? Not quite

We’ve all heard this story, and some of us have lived it: A Jewish individual or couple, new in town or newly seeking to reconnect with the Jewish community, walks into a worship space just before the start time of a High Holy Days service and starts to enter the sanctuary, only to be stopped by an usher, who asks, “Do you have a ticket?”

Protests greet Netanyahu on British visit

Some 300 demonstrators waving flags and \”Free Palestine\” banners staged a noisy protest in central London on Wednesday against the two-day visit to Britain this week of Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu.

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