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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will give Benny Gantz the task of forming a new government, his office said Sunday. Rivlin met Sunday with the heads of all the parties that won seats in Israel’s parliament in its last election earlier this month. At the end of the consultations, which were broadcast nationally, […]
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The entire student body of URJ Heller High in Israel, a high school affiliated with the Reform movement, will return to the United States on a chartered flight, along with dozens of students from other Israeli programs for American teens. Rabbi Loren Sykes, URJ Heller High principal, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency […]
Both of us run national organizations. We each work full-time, with intense and fulfilling jobs. Even though we commute to our offices regularly, we also have the privilege of working remotely. And yet, we’ve never considered ourselves “stay-at-home.” That is, until COVID-19 creeped into our lives. With increased restrictions that range from social distancing to […]