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Gideon Aronoff is the executive director of the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism

Masorti speaker outlines crises in Israel

Does Conservative Judaism hold the answer to Israel’s troubles? It was a question Beth Shalom Congregation sought to answer during a recent presentation featuring...

Mule-heart: The life, death and legacy of Gary Stern

The length of the small intestines of a normal human being can vary from 10 to 25 feet. When Gary B. Stern died in...
From left: Rabbi Andy Gordon, Elaine Richman, Rabbi Jennifer Weiner, Sam Dansicker, Mina Wender and Ken Bell

Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom gives Torah to Bolton Street

Representatives of Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation made a guest appearance at Bolton Street Synagogue’s Friday night services on June 11 to present Bolton Street...
Naftali Bennett

9 firsts for Israel’s new government

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By Abigail Klein Leichman For the first time in 12 years, Israel’s Likud Party and its head, Benjamin Netanyahu, have moved from the prime minister’s...

New owners acquire Goldberg’s New York Bagels

Goldberg’s New York Bagels has new owners. In May, current co-owners Chaim Lazar and Mark Prince took over the bagel shop from its previous...
Abby Match

There’s a new test for cancer risks from a longtime Jewish genetic screening program

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By Renee Ghert-Zand After discovering a suspicious lump in her breast one day while in the shower, Abby Match was diagnosed in August with an...
A paramedic with Magen David Adom

With new at-home paramedic service, Israel’s national ambulance service becomes telemedicine pioneer

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By Michele Chabin The elderly grandmother had a fever and felt weak, despite the antibiotics her family doctor had prescribed a couple of days earlier...
Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu replaced as Israeli prime minister after 12 years in office

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By Ben Sales and Shira Hanau After 12 years, seven elections and three corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel. Netanyahu,...
Ghufran Almusawi, proprietor of Al Basha Grocery

A Muslim market in Tucson offers kosher food and intercultural dialogue

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By Nicole Raz Tucked between a dance school and a ’60s retro lounge on a quiet street in Tucson, Ariz., sits a small Middle Eastern...
Erica Bloom collects meals for JVC’s Bunches of Lunches program

Associated agencies provide more than 137,000 meals and boxes of food for the hungry

In April of 2020, toward the beginning of the pandemic, Jewish Volunteer Connection hoped to collect up to 250 meals for those facing food...