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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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From time to time, various neighborhoods are featured in The Jewish Week. This week we are covering the Upper East Side. Future neighborhood sections will be Forest Hills on November 2 and Flushing on November 30 Chabad of the Upper East Side “I’m so glad its Monday. There’s Hebrew school today!” shouted Samson. All you […]

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(JTA) – A dozen Israeli children who suffer from cancer were treated to dinner at the Israeli Embassy in Washington and visits to many of the area’s top tourist sites. The children, as well as a few of their mothers, medical personnel and trip organizers, spent the past few days touring the U.S. Capitol, the […]

Shabbat Shalom Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:41 p.m. Torah: Gen. 12:1-17:27 Haftarah: Isaiah 40:27-41:16 Havdalah: 6:40 p.m Religion, we imagine, is all about faith: we even call religions “faiths,” and have “interfaith dialogues.” But Judaism has no commandment “to have faith.” In Judaism, we are saved not by what we believe but by what we […]

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