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December 14, 2015
Israel’s poor, especially children, are increasing in number
An energy boom and its high-tech achievements as the vaunted “start-up nation” notwithstanding, Israel is seeing more and more of its children living in poverty.
Outrage over removal of Israeli flag at Haaretz Conference
The removal of the Israeli flag ahead of a Palestinian representative at the Haaretz conference in New York on Sunday is continuing to make waves and has sparked harsh criticism from Israeli politicians.
The road from addiction to the chuppah
Yehoshua Lowy, a former cocaine and heroin user, said he weighed 127 pounds and had track marks up and down his arms when he entered the Los Angeles-based Chabad Residential Treatment Center in 2010.
Obama: faster progress needed against Islamic State
President Barack Obama said on Monday that Islamic State militants had lost swaths of territory they once controlled in Iraq and Syria but that progress needed to be made faster against the group.
Rabbis welcome chance to officiate same-sex weddings
In 2012, Rabbi Adam Kligfeld, senior rabbi at Temple Beth Am, married two Orthodox Jews.
Why the Saudis are just like Trump
The online bickering between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his fellow billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal over Trump’s proposal to ban Muslim immigration is seeped with irony: For decades, Saudi Arabia has had a near-total ban on granting visas to Jews.
How Jews by Choice do weddings
In every tribe and culture, a wedding is cause for a celebration.
Donald Trump’s doctor says candidate has no health problems
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a letter on Monday from his physician that reported the real estate mogul has had no serious health conditions.