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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:22 p.m. Torah: Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9 Haftarah: Isaiah 41:12-42:12 Havdalah: 8:22 p.m.  ‘Be a Jew at home and a man on the street.” So went the famous advice of Judah Lieb Gordon (1831-1892), an early Hebraist, poet and writer, and a pioneer in what we call Haskalah, the 19th-century movement to harmonize […]

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Despite its startup nation reputation, the Jewish state faces some academic hurdles. Education Minister Gideon Saar says progress is on the books.

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Two major philanthropists who were born in Europe, achieved great financial success through the real estate business, and gave back to the Jewish community by supporting numerous yeshivas and other Jewish educational institutions here, in Israel and around the world, died in recent days, and their contributions cannot be measured in dollars alone. Sami Rohr, […]

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