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Hoping to address what is seen as a matchmaking crisis among Orthodox Jews, Jeff Cohn is launching a program to enable singles to conduct their first "date" via teleconference.

First Date 2.0: ShidduchVision aims to ease shidduch crisis

Hoping to address what is seen as a matchmaking crisis among Orthodox Jews, Jeff Cohn is launching a program to enable singles to conduct their first "date" via teleconference. (Jeff Cohn) Read more »

Groups lining up with Obama on health care measures

As the health care reform debate heats up, Jewish organizations are backing the Obama administration on several key points, including the creation of a government-run public insurance option and pushing for measures that would help the rapidly aging Jewish community. Read more »

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First Date 2.0: ShidduchVision aims to ease shidduch crisis

A new service will permit Orthodox singles to go on first “dates” via video conference rather than travel to far-off locales to meet potential suitors. It's the latest in a slew of initiatives addressing what is often described as a crisis of Orthodox singles unable to find suitable mates. Read more »

For restitution seekers, 10 European countries that have obstacles

A survey of 10 European Union countries where claimants of looted art, communal property or private property face serious obstacles. Read more »

Madoff’s victims: Moving on, yet mesmerized by the spectacle

Even as victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme try to move on, some say life will never be the same. Read more »

Michael Jackson and the Jewish nose

Like Michael Jackson's physical transformations, an exhibition about physical stereotyping of Jews reminds us of what we see -- and what we don't -- when we stereotype minorities. Read more »

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GOP site apologizes for Obama-Hitler comparison

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The Telegraph

Jo Amar, acclaimed Sephardic singer, dies

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Photos and Videos

From left, Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons, leaders of the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, and Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, arrive at United Nations headquarters on July 20, 2009 with more than two dozen European imams and rabbis to discuss ways the Muslim and Jewish communities can better work together. (David Karp) A nighttime rendering of the National Museum of American Jewish History on Philadelphia's Independence Mall, which is scheduled to open in November 2010. (Polshek Partnership Architects) Australian golfer Roy Vandersluis marches into the opening ceremony at Ramat Gan Stadium on July 13, 2009 for his record ninth consecutive Maccabiah Games.

 (Peter Haskin) The chief rabbi of Uruguay, Moti Maarabi, prays at the Western Wall after a welcoming ceremony for 150 South American emigres brought to Israel by the Jewish Agency on July 17, 2009. (Brian Hendler) (Brian Hendler) President Obama meets with Jewish community leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on July 13, 2009. (White House) Flag-bearing participants at the opening ceremonies of the18th Maccabiah Games show off the countries they represent as they march into Ramat Gan Stadium on July 13, 2009. (Uri Lenz/FLASH90/JTA) Australian Governor General Quentin Bryce, visiting the New South Wales headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch, holds the child of Dovid, left, and Sima Slavin, right, directors of the soup kitchen at the headquarters. (Ingrid Shakenovsky/Chabad.org) Members of the U.S. Maccabiah team participate in a group b'nai mitzvah in Jerusalem on July 6, 2009. (Maccabi USA) Natan Sharansky, right, the new chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, welcomes new South African immigrants during a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on July 7, 2009. (Brian Hendler) North American cantors, wrapped in a Torah scroll, chant morning prayers on July 2, 2009 on the grounds of the Auschwitz death camp during their tour of Poland organized by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture. (Piotr Malecki)

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  • From left, Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons, leaders of the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, and Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, arrive at United Nations headquarters on July 20, 2009 with more than two dozen European imams and rabbis to discuss ways the Muslim and Jewish communities can better work together.
  • A nighttime rendering of the National Museum of American Jewish History on Philadelphia's Independence Mall, which is scheduled to open in November 2010.
  • Australian golfer Roy Vandersluis marches into the opening ceremony at Ramat Gan Stadium on July 13, 2009 for his record ninth consecutive Maccabiah Games.
  • The chief rabbi of Uruguay, Moti Maarabi, prays at the Western Wall after a welcoming ceremony for 150 South American emigres brought to Israel by the Jewish Agency on July 17, 2009. (Brian Hendler)
  • President Obama meets with Jewish community leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on July 13, 2009.
  • Flag-bearing participants at the opening ceremonies of the18th Maccabiah Games show off the countries they represent as they march into Ramat Gan Stadium on July 13, 2009.
  • Australian Governor General Quentin Bryce, visiting the New South Wales headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch, holds the child of Dovid, left, and Sima Slavin, right, directors of the soup kitchen at the headquarters.
  • Members of the U.S. Maccabiah team participate in a group b'nai mitzvah in Jerusalem on July 6, 2009.
  • Natan Sharansky, right, the new chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, welcomes new South African immigrants during a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on July 7, 2009.
  • North American cantors, wrapped in a Torah scroll, chant morning prayers on July 2, 2009 on the grounds of the Auschwitz death camp during their tour of Poland organized by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture.
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