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On Wednesday, October 14, Touro President Dr. Alan Kadish hosted Natan Sharansky and Dr. Gil Troy in an engaging and eye-opening discussion on the current situation in Israel and...
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Reviewed by Yochanan Gordon
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Review By Michele Justic
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Holocaust Historian Leaves Young Israel Over Support for Netanyahu, Extreme Right Party
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Professional Organizer Morphs Her Skills Into A Book On Jewish Life
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Some people give tzedakah or sponsor lectures in memory of their loved ones. The more affluent write sifrei Torah or donate rooms, or buildings, or Torah...
Proclaim Liberty Throughout The Land: The Hebrew Bible In The United States
The Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University recently released Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States:...
Jewish Poet Louise Gluck Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
BY GABE FRIEDMAN
(JTA) — Louise Gluck, the American granddaughter of Hungarian Jews, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
Gluck, 77, was awarded “for her unmistakable poetic voice that...
Best-Selling Novelist Judith Krantz Dies at 91
(JTA) — Best-selling novelist Judith Krantz, whose first novel “Scruples” was published the year she turned 50, has died.
Krantz died on Saturday at her home in Bel Air, California,...
6 New Children’s Books for the New Year
BY PENNY SCHWARTZ
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