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The New York Jewish Week is the home of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s New York coverage.

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Estee Ackerman, a sixth-grader at Hebrew Academy of Nassau County and a rising star in competitive Ping-Pong, looked at the schedule of the recent U.S. National Table Tennis Championships in Las Vegas and figured she’d be done in plenty of time for Shabbat. More than 100 players her age were competing late last month; probably, […]

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The Jewish Week makes it a policy to glorify “cultural” Judaism frequently at the expense of “religious” (especially Orthodox) Judaism. Yet the paper also laments the lack of Jewish involvement of half the Jewish population of New York, as per the latest UJA-Federation of New York study. Many articles ponder how we can get more […]

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Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, several people wondering how they can help the families who lost young children contacted me, because my family suffered its own tragedy. After my 13-year-old son Koby and his friend, Yosef Ish Ran, were murdered by terrorists here in Israel in 2001, I was sure that when […]

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