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Jews of Baja California Sur
By Donald H. Harrison Chabad has established vibrant and growing Jewish communities on either side of the southern tip of ...
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The Secret Life of Purim Costumes
By Deborah Fineblum, JNS.org It was precisely 10 years ago that Sharon Abeles snapped her first picture of a kid in his Purim ...
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Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard at North Coast Rep
By Eva Trieger North Coast Repertory Theatre has but one goal: to provide entertaining and thought-provoking theatre to patrons of all ages and ...
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Sundays with George
By Eva Trieger Many art lovers are well-acquainted with Georges Seurat’s bucolic painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande. Less ...
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Sports journalist Emily Austin brings her ‘A game’ in defense of Israel
By Bradley Martin, JNS.org Social media influencer and popular sports journalist Emily Austin, 21, was outspoken in her love for Israel at the ...
- Former US marine seriously injured in West Bank shooting attack in Huwara(JTA) — An Israeli-American former U.S. Marine was seriously injured in a terror attack in the Palestinian West Bank village of Huwara. David Stern, a resident of the Israeli West Bank settlement of Itamar, was driving through the village with his wife when a Palestinian gunman shot at their car. Stern was hit in his... […]
- Which side are you on: Jewish American or American Jew? (JTA) — Earlier this month the New York Times convened what it called a “focus group of Jewish Americans.” I was struck briefly by that phrase — Jewish Americans — in part because the Times, like the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, tends to prefer “American Jews.” It’s seemingly a distinction without a difference, although I know others... […]
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