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In Judah, Jews buried their own. In Persia, Jews buried their own. Across Europe, throughout Italy, Spain and Poland, Jews buried their own. But in America, Jews essentially stopped. Funeral homes...
May 23, 2013 | 3 | 7 |
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Sep 22, 2010 | 0 | 10 |
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(Second in a four-part series on genetic screening for Jews)
Physically speaking, it is pretty easy to get screened to see if one might be a carrier for any of 18 identified genetic Ashkenazi di...
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 | 10 |
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Soon, the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry will serve the 15217 Zip code in every way.
The Jewish Family & Children’s Service has announced that the pantry will begin offering nonkosher, as well...
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 | 12 |
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NEW YORK -- Every reality competition with judges has a “mean one": Simon Cowell’s scathing remarks made plenty of “American Idol” contestants cry.
For the first couple of seasons of “Top Chef,” t...
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 | 10 |
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LOS ANGELES -- Want to know exactly where Ariel, the often discussed city-sized settlement in the West Bank, is located? How about when it was established or how many Israelis live there?
There’s ...
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 | 9 |
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Martin Peretz has been dropped as a speaker from a Harvard University event.
Peretz, the editor in chief of The New Republic and a former Harvard professor, had been scheduled to speak at the 50th...
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 | 12 |
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The word Poland has stigma among today’s Jews. It’s the place of Auschwitz, the land of long dead shtetls, destruction … destruction.
And yet, 100 cantors recently went there to challenge that pe...
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 | 10 |
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JERUSALEM -- Israel is ready to enter peace negotiations with Syria "right away," Shimon Peres told the United Nations General Assembly.
In his address Monday in New York to the international body...
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 | 9 |
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JERUSALEM -- The administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush offered to absorb 100,000 Palestinian refugees if Israel and the Palestinians reached a peace deal, Ehud Olmert said.
The fo...
Sep 19, 2010 | 0 | 13 |
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Clare Burson was a curious child.
In a Sunday school classroom in Memphis, Tenn., her teachers Mrs. Weintraub and Mrs. Schechter taught 8-year-old Burson about something that happened in Europe in...
Sep 19, 2010 | 1 | 12 |
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to resign if peace talks with Israel fail.
Abbas made a statement indicating that he would quit over a failure of the rece...