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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:31 p.m. Torah: Deut. 11:26-16:17; Numbers 28:9-15 Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24 Havdalah: 8:34 p.m.        Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote: “Tzedakah [charity] lies at the heart of Judaism’s understanding of mitzvot bein adam le-chavero, interpersonal duties. An idea going back 4,000 years, it remains challenging today.” Given the state of today’s economy, it […]

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Two Manhattan synagogues are among 23 “Sacred Sites” in New York State that have received grants for physical repairs form the New York Landmarks Conservancy. A $30,000 Jewish Heritage Fund Grant to the Stanton Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side will help pay for repairs on the building’s exterior walls, and a grant of […]

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The newswire is abuzz with the recent class-action lawsuit filed against Hebrew National by a group of plaintiffs alleging that Hebrew National’s hotdogs and other meats failed to live up to their lofty billing. Contrary to its advertising, the plaintiffs claim, Hebrew National meat is not 100 percent kosher “as defined by the most stringent […]

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