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The Big Picture
SD school district’s Jewish leader has big-picture vision for public education
September 2015
- Israel reportedly is preparing for an imminent Iran strike despite Trump’s prior admonitions(JTA) — The United States is pulling its personnel from some bases in the Middle East amid simmering tensions and uncertainty over a possible Israeli strike on Iran — and Iran’s threatened response. Israel has long been eager to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and had hoped that President Donald Trump would support such a strike.... […]
- How Jewish can you be in a Boca country club? Wrapping tefillin got a family suspended, lawsuit saysWhat began as a two-minute ritual inside a Florida country club has grown into a federal civil rights case — and the latest flashpoint in a growing debate about religious expression in shared spaces. Isaac Scharf, an Orthodox Jewish father of five, was suspended in March from the clubhouse of Boca Grove, a gated community... […]