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Lifelong Learning program to begin at SJCC April 26
Rabbi Moshe Mirsky
SCHENECTADY–Five rabbis from four area synagogues will participate in the Schenectady Jewish Community Center’s Community Lifelong Learning program to be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, April 26, May 10, and May 17, at the Center, 2565 Balltown Rd. The program is free.
Each session will consist of two parts, a first-hour [...]
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Tagged congregation beth israel, congregation beth shalom, israel independence day
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Auslander to read from ‘Hope: A Tragedy’ April 24
SHALOM AUSLANDER in the Woodstock Artists’ Cemetery.
ALBANY–Shalom Auslander, ex-Orthodox Jew, humorist, cultural renegade, fiction writer, memoirist, contributor to NPR’s This American Life, and author of Hope: A Tragedy, will read from his work at 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 24, in the Assembly Hall, Campus Center, on the University at Albany’s uptown campus, 1400 Washington Ave.
The [...]
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Tagged April, Hope, living in the attic, woodstock artists cemetery, york state writers institute
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CGOH Cherry Blossom Fest, ALS 5K, Wellness Walk April 22
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GO. Last year’s participants begin their 5K Race for ALS at Congregation Gates of Heaven is Schenectady.
SCHENECTADY–The 20th Annual Cherry Blossom Craft Festival, 5K Race for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and adult wellness walk will be held Sunday, April 22, at Temple Gates of Heaven, 852 Ashmore Ave. The [...]
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Tagged ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Festival, gates of heaven, race proceeds
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Dept. of Justice response on prosecuting Palestinian killers unsatisfying for lawmakers
PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS recently released by Israel as part of the deal to free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit included killers of Americans. Members of the House of Representatives have called on Attorney General Eric Holder to pursue prosecutions against those terrorists.
By ZACH SILBERMAN
WASHINGTON (JTA)–U.S. House lawmakers want more answers after the Department of Justice reiterated the [...]
With fond memories of native land, Iranian Israelis worried by talk of war
MOLOK SHAMSHIRI, an Iranian-Israeli restaurant cook, left Iran in 1964. (Ben Lynfield)
By BEN LYNFIELD
TEL AVIV (JTA)–Avi Nobel lived in Tehran and is sure the Iranian people want peace.
“There are a lot of poor people there and what they want is food and to work, not a nuclear bomb,” says Nobel, a spice seller here whose [...]
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Tagged israeli airstrike, land, mahmoud ahmadinejad, president mahmoud ahmadinejad, strike
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Jewish Celebrity Roundup/ Six Degrees (No Bacon)
Israeli band’s Yom HaShoah gig in Germany, Gervais’ inappropriate jokes and bar mitzvah wars
Balkan Beat Box
By Six Degrees (No Bacon) Staff
NEW YORK CITY (6NoBacon)–The Israeli band Balkan Beat Box will continue its successful world tour with a concert on Wednesday evening in Munich, Germany—striking a nerve for some in Israel because it is the start [...]
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Tagged band, designer isaac mizrahi, holocaust remembrance day, screenwriter joe eszterhas, width
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Evangelical couple sees calling as welcoming ‘lone’ soldiers for Shabbat dinners
SCOTT JOHNSON sits at the head of the table for a Shabbat dinner that he and his wife, both evangelical Christians, lead for “lone soldiers” in Israel. (Photo by Meredith Mandell)
By MEREDITH MANDELL
JERUSALEM (JTA)–Every Friday night, Scott and Theresa Johnson host Jewish Shabbat dinners for lone Israeli soldiers. The meal begins after sundown, preceded by the [...]
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Tagged home, israel defense forces, many evangelical christians, Shabbat, spicy chicken wings
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Romney’s triumph smooths sharp edges of GOP Middle East policy rhetoric
“WHAT DRIVES ROMNEY’S RHETORIC right now is the basic reality that the president is not vulnerable on foreign policy, the American public is not interested, so he has not found a sure footing, so he tries to draw contrived or hyperbolic differences,” said Aaron David Miller, a negotiator in Republican and Democratic administrations who also [...]
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Tagged aaron david miller, national security interests, President, rhetoric, west bank palestinians
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The Eulogizer: Raymond Aubrac, Jack Tramiel, Hadda Busches
By ALAN D. ABBEY
JERUSALEM (JTA)–The Eulogizer highlights the life accomplishments of famous and not-so-famous Jews who have passed away recently.
Raymond Aubrac in 1941
Raymond Aubrac, 97, French Resistance fighter
Raymond Aubrac, a prominent figure of the French Resistance against the Nazis during World War II, died April 10 in Paris, at the age of 97, his daughter [...]
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Tagged Auschwitz, auschwitz survivor, Busches, raymond aubrac, vichy regime
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UAlbany, area synagogues set Yom HaShoah observance
Professor Gerhard Weinberg
ALBANY
Professor Gerhard Weinberg, a German-born American diplomatic and military historian, will present the University at Albany Center for Jewish Studies’ 2012 Yom HaShoah lecture, A New Look at Hitler and the Beginning of the Holocaust, at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 19, at the university’s performing arts center, 1400 Washington Ave.
Weinberg, author of A [...]
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Tagged albany symphony orchestra, April, HaShoah, jews in nazi germany, william rand kenan
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