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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

By Eric Fingerhut · June 29, 2009

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

By Ben Harris

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

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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

By Jacob Berkman

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

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

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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A spacious edifice from the Roman period (third century CE) that was exposed recently in City of David excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority apparently was a mansion. (Israel Antiquities Authority) North American immigrants wave as they arrive in Israel on a flight organized by Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel from New York, July 7, 2009. (Sasson Tiram) Paul Goldenberg, the national director of the Jewish community's Secure Community Network, speaks at a domestic terrorism seminar on Aug. 14, 2009 in Hamilton, N.J. More than 200 security professionals from New Jersey attended the seminar, which was sponsored in part by the network. (SCN) Participants at a candlelight vigil in Washington on Aug. 3, 2009 remember two Israelis slain at a Tel Aviv LBGT youth center. (Kitra Cahana) Mourners gather in Jerusalem's Zion Square on Aug. 2, 2009 to remember two young Israelis killed in a shooting at a Tel Aviv gay community center the previous evening. (Miriam Alster / Flash90 / JTA) U.S. special envoy George Mitchell, left, with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak before their meeting in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2009, is emphasizing Syria as part of a regional peace package. (U.S. Department of State) Imam Nicola Isa Abd Al-Haqq Benassi of Italy pauses to read an exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on July 22, 2009. Benassi was part of an interreligious mission of two dozen European imams and rabbis sponsored by The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. (Ron Sachs) Rabbi Michel Serfaty of France presents Joshua DuBois, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, with declaration of principles expanding an American-led initiative to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia to Europe at a meeting in Washington on July 23, 2009. (Ron Sachs) A delegation of more than two dozen European imams and rabbis in New York to discuss international diplomacy visit Yankee Stadium on July 20, 2009 for the Yankees-Orioles game. (David Karp) 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)

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  • A spacious edifice from the Roman period (third century CE) that was exposed recently in City of David excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority apparently was a mansion.
  • North American immigrants wave as they arrive in Israel on a flight organized by Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel from New York, July 7, 2009.
  • Paul Goldenberg, the national director of the Jewish community's Secure Community Network, speaks at a domestic terrorism seminar on Aug. 14, 2009 in Hamilton, N.J. More than 200 security professionals from New Jersey attended the seminar, which was sponsored in part by the network.
  • Participants at a candlelight vigil in Washington on Aug. 3, 2009 remember two Israelis slain at a Tel Aviv LBGT youth center.
  • Mourners gather in Jerusalem's Zion Square on Aug. 2, 2009 to remember two young Israelis killed in a shooting at a Tel Aviv gay community center the previous evening.
  • U.S. special envoy George Mitchell, left, with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak before their meeting in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2009, is emphasizing Syria as part of a regional peace package.
  • Imam Nicola Isa Abd Al-Haqq Benassi of Italy pauses to read an exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on July 22, 2009. Benassi was part of an interreligious mission of two dozen European imams and rabbis sponsored by The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.
  • Rabbi Michel Serfaty of France presents Joshua DuBois, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, with declaration of principles expanding an American-led initiative to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia to Europe at a meeting in Washington on July 23, 2009.
  • A delegation of more than two dozen European imams and rabbis in New York to discuss international diplomacy visit Yankee Stadium on July 20, 2009 for the Yankees-Orioles game.
  • 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.
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