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The 21st century’s bar mitzvah year, 2013, is almost here and b’nai mitzvah talk seems to be everywhere. Last month, the Reform movement kicked off “B’nai Mitzvah Revolution,” a project to make the rite of passage more meaningful. In February, the annual Jewish Futures Conference — a joint venture of the Jewish Education Service of […]

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Jews think of themselves as a minority, but in about thirty years, everybody will be a minority – or nobody will be, according to the first Census Bureau projections based on the 2010 census, which predict that no single ethnic or racial group will constitute a majority of the country by 2043. “The next half […]

The crowd roared when Michele Bachmann proclaimed that the northern Samarian town of Bet El “must remain and always will remain a part of Israel.” Most of the 1,000 guests at the American Friends of Bet El Yeshiva Center’s 30th annual dinner, last week at the Marriott Marquis on Broadway, continued to applaud vociferously as […]

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