A Purim feast, Persian-style
Judy Zeidler
March 15, 2016
Purim is the holiday that celebrates the liberation of the Persian Jewish community long, long ago.
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March 15, 2016
Republican Marco Rubio quits 2016 presidential race
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
Marco Rubio suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday night after failing to translate support from the party\’s establishment into victories in primary states.
Trump scores crucial win in Florida as five states vote
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump scored a crucial win in the Florida primary on Tuesday, striking a potentially fatal blow to rival Marco Rubio\’s campaign and moving closer to securing the party\’s nomination as five U.S. states voted.
Jerry Springer compares the current election season to his show
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
Jerry Springer compared the behavior of the presidential candidates in this election season to the atmosphere on his famously boisterous talk show.
Rabbi Marc Schneier: Netanyahu should take bold peacemaking trip to Saudi Arabia
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
New York Rabbi Marc Schneier two weeks ago met with Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in the country’s capital city of Manama.
What’s really important to take away from the new Pew study
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
The Pew report on Israel’s Religiously Divided Society should be a source of alarm to both Israelis and world Jewish leaders.
Anti-Israel UC Davis activists denounce Israel as a “liberal-democracy” – and they are right
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
George Deek is the child of Palestinian Christian refugees.
In real-life Anatevka, Ukraine’s Jewish refugees build a community
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
At the age of 53, Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko fled their native city of Lugansk with three suitcases and moved into a wooden room in a muddy refugee camp outside Kiev.
5 things to look out for at the AIPAC confab
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
Here are five things to watch for at this year’s annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is taking place here March 19-22:
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