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'We thank the police and those neighbours who helped on Saturday.'

'We thank the police and those neighbours who helped on Saturday.'

The Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas celebrated a milestone on Friday night during the installation of Rabbi Julia Margolis, the first woman rabbi to lead the historic synagogue in its

Americans, rightly horrified, watch the ongoing violence in Israel while, close to home, a nefarious wave of intolerance spreads.

(JTA) — Captain Bill Pinkney, a Jewish sailor who became the first African American to sail around the world solo, died Thursday. He was 87 and had suffered a fall.  Starting in 1990, the Chicagoan’s 22-month, 27,000-mile journey aboard a 47-foot cutter captivated thousands of schoolchildren who followed his trip via an educational television channel. […]

From the blog of Joshua Davidson at The Times of Israel

What are free societies supposed to do about large numbers of people who reject the principles of tolerance on which a free society depends?

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Despite the evil that lurks in the world, the good must prevail. Evil must fail and we must say the "people of Israel live".