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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:13 p.m. Torah: Numbers 19:1-22:1 Haftarah: Judges 11:1-33 Havdalah: 9:21 p.m.               “And the pure person shall gather the ashes of the cow and shall place them outside the encampment in a pure place; this shall be a keepsake for the witness-community of the Israelites, […]

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Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries soundly defeated controversial Israel critic Charles Barron, a city councilman, in the primary race to succeed Rep. Ed Towns in Brooklyn Tuesday night. With 87 percent of precincts reporting in Tuesday night, Jeffries had 72 percent of the vote compared with 28 for Barron, whom Jeffries had denounced as divisive during the […]

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In 1945, my grandfather was listed as “Mr. A. — a specimen Orthodox Jew” in Milton Steinberg’s book “A Partisan Guide to the Jewish Problem.” The interview with him is summarized in these words: “The misgiving that haunts him most persistently is over his children. … His great fear is that they will depart from […]

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