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Events: singles; author talk; meet artist; Ugandan Jews; musical; Maccabi Film Festival

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

J.J. Keki of Uganda's Abayadayu Jewish community. Two Jewish singles events will take place tomorrow and motzei Shabbat (Saturday night):...
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Goodstock: Brooklyn's tikkun olam fair

Every December my wife Shoshana and I sit at the kitchen table and review the charitable organizations we supported the previous year; we then decide...
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No one hurt in synagogue ceiling collapse

When homophobic and anti-semitic protestors picketed Park Slope's Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE) last Shabbat congregants had greater concerns and...
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Publicity-seeking antisemites to picket Brooklyn shuls tomorrow

Protesters from the publicity-seeking homophobic and antisemitic Westboro Baptist Church plan to picket several Brooklyn Synagogues tomorrow including...
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Jewish Communities 101: Portland, Maine

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In my first examiner.com article back in February I described the Jewish communities of Jacksonville, FL and Binghamton, NY. About a month ago my...
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Judaism 101: What is Tisha B'Av and how is it observed?

Tisha B'Av, the traditional anniversary of the destruction of both the first and second Temples by the Babylonians and the Romans respectively and the...
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Neighborhoods 101: How inclusive and welcoming toward LGBT Jews is your shul?

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In February the findings of a study of the inclusiveness of American synagogues towards gay and lesbian Jews revealed that most rabbis overestimate...
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Ready to pull an Erev Shavuot all nighter?

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Shavuot, which starts tomorrow evening (Thursday May 28, 2009) commemorates The Revelation at Sinai when according to tradition we received the Ten...
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Storahtelling in Merrick this Sunday morning 3/29 & Manhattan JCC Saturday afternoon 4/4

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The Red Sea splits open but who will jump first into the waters of the unknown? Take One Giant Leap into one of the world's oldest stories and...
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David Kraemer on the ultra-Orthodox kashrut hysteria of the 1980s

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In 1986 three ultra-Orthodax women in Boro Park, Brooklyn began spying on the neighborhood's kosher butchers. Their...
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