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Torah by Telephone
By Menachem Posner Oren Rahat, center, flew to New York to celebrate the completion of a Talmudic tractate that he had studied with Jnet partners by phone. Jerusalem-born Oren Rahat describes himself...
View ArticleJewish newspaper ad offers infertile couple sperm, and inheritance
An anonymous man is offering his sperm to an infertile couple, and his inheritance to the child. The man’s free-of-charge offer was advertised in Friday’s Aus-tralian Jewish News. His proviso is that...
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75 year later, Israel remembers Kristallnacht
By Jessica Chasmar Enlarge Photo Israel’s Holocaust memorial on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazi forces terrorized and torched Jewish...
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Man finds $98,000 in desk he bought from Craigslist, returns cash
Angry at his bank for taking too big a scoop in overdraft fees, one Pittsburgh ice cream shop owner decided to set up his own flavor of a community bank, with interest on deposits paid out in sweets....
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Jews worldwide mobilize support for Philippines relief
U.K., U.S. groups raise donations; Israeli military sends experts to Typhoon Haiyan disaster zone, evaluate how to best deploy search, rescue and medicine teams. By Haaretz and Gili Cohen Residents...
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China’s Kaifeng Jews Rediscover Their Heritage
Photo by Matthew Fishbane/The New York Times, via Redux ByTiffanie Wen In Kaifeng, where Sephardic Jews from the Silk Road settled in the 12th century, their descendants are rediscovering lost...
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ISRAEL’S BOOMING TECH START-UP NATION STARTS TO GIVE BACK
Corporate Social Responsibility Takes Off in Jewish State By Ben Sales (JTA) — When the Israeli mobile maps start-up Waze accepted a buyout from Google for more than $1 billion in June, each of the...
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Jews in Space
by Bruce Bawer 5 At the end of his 1981 movie A History of the World, Part I, Mel Brooks added three funny fake “trailers” for non-existent movies, one of them being Jews in Space. The trailer...
View Article‘British Indy Jones’ on quest to find Jewish history
AFTER tangling with snakes and dodging gunfire while venturing into remote and dangerous regions, he’s become known as the British Indiana Jones. But instead of trying to find the Holy Grail, Tudor...
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Jewish Wrestler to be Honored at Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
Jonas Eckstein, a Bratislava-born wrestler, saved thousands of Jews from persecution during the Holocaust By: Ynet News B’nai B’rith World Center and Jewish National Fund will mark their twelfth...
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