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Just a few weeks ago, before a huge Rosh Hashanah audience, Rabbi Rachel Timoner thundered from the pulpit of her large Brooklyn synagogue against the government in Israel.
Fifty years ago, as a young student activist deeply involved in the Religious Zionists of America, the Mizrachi Organization’s arm in the United States, I started a PR campaign for Israel and called it “Israel at 25, Happy Free and Alive.” Being professionally involved in graphic arts and print marketing, I printed up thousands of “Israel at 25” bumper stickers which eventually adorned the bumpers of many cars in numerous Jewish communities in the United States.
Jewish families mourning a loved one who is missing, but not confirmed dead, face an agonizing choice: Sit shiva, or keep waiting?
A new coalition of 81 Jewish groups, both secular and religious, is trying to address the nation's dearth of poll workers.
Baruch Lanner, who was convicted of assaulting two students in 2002, will be allowed to remain in Israel for the next year under a temporary residence visa.