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<i>Roy Somech/Photography by Roy<br> The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty delivered Rosh Hashana food packages throughout New York City in September 2009.</i> As recession drags on, middle-class families forced to turn to Jewish food banks
SAN FRANCISCO — Robert M., 58, worked for a news organization in the San Francisco Bay area until September 2008, when he lost his job in layoffs that eliminated 15 percent of the company’s wo...
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Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel after bilateral meeting
Oval Office Colonnade PRESIDENT OBAMA : Hello, everybody. Prime Minister Netanyahu and I just had a very productive discussion about our shared efforts to advance the cause of peace between I...
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Mass. gubernatorial debate set for Rosh Hashana
A Boston television station is holding the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate on the first night of Rosh Hashana. WBZ -TV chose the Sept. 8 date of the debate, the Boston Herald reported....
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Jews still like Obama, but approval dips
WASHINGTON — Nearly two-thirds of Jews still approve of President Obama’s performance, but his approval numbers have dipped. A Gallup Poll released last Friday of religious groups in...
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Court rejects Jewish inmate’s claim on beard
A prison can require an Orthodox Jewish prison inmate to keep his beard short, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe in Concord, N.H., ruled Aug. 27 that prison inmates...
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Campaign to buy Israeli goods is launched
SAN FRANCISCO — A pro-Israel group has launched an online campaign to buy Israeli goods. StandWithUs announced the Buy Israeli Goods campaign to counter the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestme...
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Benjamin Kaplan, Nurenberg attorney, dies
Benjamin Kaplan, who helped draft the American portion of the indictment of Nazi war criminals tried at Nuremberg, has died. Kaplan, who was a law professor at Harvard and served on the Massachuse...
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Suspect arrested in Jewish man's shooting
A suspect was arrested in the shooting of a Jewish man in Brooklyn. Police on Friday arrested Jaquan Vaughn, an ex-convict, in the shooting on Aug. 10 of Baruch Halberstam, a Chasidic rabbinical s...
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Hip-hop artist turned Orthodox Jew murdered in Brooklyn
A former hip-hop record executive who became an Orthodox Jew was gunned down in Brooklyn on Thursday night. Yoseph Robinson, 34, was shot to death at MB Vineyards in Flatbush, a kosher liquor stor...
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Regional Selichot Service 7:00 PM
The four Eastern Suburban congregations wi...