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May 20th
Walk for Israel marks Israel’s 65th independence day
The Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado is hosting a Walk for Israel’s 65th birthday on Sunday, May 19. The day begins with the Celebrate Family Festival in the morning at the Loup JCC and the short 2.11 mile walk at 2 p.m. The walk is free to a... Read more...
Conflict at the Western Wall
JERUSALEM — Orthodox youths mobbed the Western Wall plaza by the thousands to protest Wo...Rosa Parks, ADL, kosher food
WHAT exactly was wrong with the way Rosa Parks was treated? Parks, of course, was the cou...Israel Walk Sunday
An early kudos goes out this week to the Allied Jewish Federation, and its designated comm...The Church of Scotland scandal
Earlier this month, the Church of Scotland issued a report titled “The Inheritance of Ab...
Chabad man pushing fashion boundaries
NEW YORK — Yosel Tiefenbrun looked in the mirror and he liked what he saw. The 23-year-...Conflict at the Western Wall
JERUSALEM — Orthodox youths mobbed the Western Wall plaza by the thousands to protest Women of the Wall as they held their monthly prayer service.
The youths, male and female, filled the Western Wall Plaza by 6:40 a.m. on Friday, May 10, 20 minutes before Women of the Wall, a women’s prayer group that holds monthly services at the site, also called the Kotel, began praying.
Because haredi Orthodox women had packed the women’s section of the plaza earlier in the morning, Women of the Wall... After 300 repetitive years, things can get boring
SABERS have been rattling in Persia for nearly 3000 years, so this latest Iran flare-up looks boringly repetitive. Jews have spent most of their existence around warring empires — it’s where our “You tried to kill us/We survived/Let’s eat!” holidays all come from — beginning with Pesach, the celebration of our birth as a People, escaping from the Egyptian empire. Jewish visions of a better world (e.g., “Nation will not take up sword against a nation, nor will they train for war an...Moroccan king restoring Jewish sites
PRAIA, Cape Verde — A Portuguese rabbi and a Moroccan diplomat stood shoulder to shoulder in a Catholic cemetery here while 200 mourners howled in grief as they buried a resident of this island off the western coast of Africa.
The foreigners had come to Cape Verde’s main cemetery earlier this month not to bury a local, but for the rededication of 10 gravestones of Moroccan Jews — members of an extinct community whose roots trace to the 1860s.
With virtually no practicing Jews on Cape Ver... Jackie Robinson, #42, fought black anti-Semitism
NEW YORK — Moviegoers who head this weekend to the AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 for the opening of “42” will see the story of how Jackie Robinson displayed legendary courage, class and talent in the face of immense pressure and racial hatred as he broke down baseball’s color barrier.
Less well known is Robinson’s role in a controversy that erupted just a few blocks away, at Harlem’s most famous theater, and underscored his commitment to fighting all bigotry, including prejudice emanat... To be a Jewish Democrat: IJN exclusive roundtable
A fair warning to all Republicans, conservatives, libertarians and other detractors of the Democratic Party: This is an article exclusively of and about Democrats.The reason for such gross imbalance, however unusual it may seem, should be obvious. As virtually everyone in Colorado already knows, next week the Democratic National Convention will be storming to town, intent on formally nominating its “presumptive” presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, not to mention kicking off the critica... Covenant’s Pomegranate Prize goes to Rabbi Bock
RABBI Eliav Bock, founding director of Ramah Outdoor Adventure at Ramah in the Rockies, is one of five Jewish educators selected to receive The Covenant Foundation’s 2012 Pomegranate Prize.
The prize honors emerging professionals in Jewish educational settings across the country.
In addition to Bock, recipients include Maya Bernstein, strategic design officer at UpStart Bay Area, San Francisco; Rabbi Nicole Greninger, director of education at Temple Isaiah, Lafayette, Calif.; Rabbi Barry Kis... Small town Jewry in Colorado and Wyoming
Working on the Intermountain Jewish News 100th Anniversary magazine has refueled our fascination with the Jewish history of the Rocky Mountain West, from the various areas in Denver to the smaller cities and towns where Jews settled. Some of the outlying Jewish communities, such as those in Pueblo, Trinidad and Cheyenne once had thriving Jewish populations, each with their own set of synagogues, B’nai B’rith lodges and other organizations. Economic hardships through the decades took thei...Sylvia Plotkin
Sylvia Plotkin, member of a Penny Poker Ladies Group in Denver for over 50 years, passed away April 28, 2013. Rabbis Benjy Last and Ben Greenberg and Cantor Joel Lichterman officiated at the April 30 graveside service at Mt. Nebo Cemetery. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.
“Sylvia was a 15-year breast cancer survivor,” the family said. “She had many friends in the community. Those who had the good fortune to know her referred to her as a sweet lady who was caring and generous.
“H... JTA News
The Newly Ordained – Yeshivat Maharat
Meet the first three graduates of Yeshivat Maharat. ...
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Claims Conference considering action to quell media storm on 2001 letter
NEW YORK (JTA) — Amid calls that the Claims Conference bungled a warning in 2001 about fraud within the organization, conference leaders appointed a committee to “formulate an appropriate ...
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Cigarette-smuggling Palestinian linked to Ari Halberstam’s Brooklyn Bridge murder
One of 16 Palestinians arrested in a cigarette-smuggling ring was linked to the 1994 murder of yeshiva student Ari Halberstam in a terror attack on the Brooklyn Bridge. ...
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Israelis rally against budget’s austerity measures
Israelis for a second straight week protested against steep austerity measures in the new state budget. ...
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Jailed Alan Gross settles lawsuit with U.S. gov’t contractor
Alan Gross, the American-Jewish contractor imprisoned in Cuba since 2009, settled a lawsuit with a contractor for the U.S. government. ...
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Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator who killed Jews, dies
Former Argentinian dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who is believed to be responsible for the disappearance of thousands of the country’s Jews, died in prison. ...
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Evacuated Homesh settlement’s land going back to Palestinian owners
The land on which the northern West Bank settlement of Homesh was built will be returned to its Palestinian owners. ...
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No evidence that Mohammed al-Dura died, Israel says
(JTA) — Claims that Israeli troops in 2000 killed the Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Dura are “baseless,” an Israeli government committee concluded. The panel of experts made the statement in i...
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