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Halpern: Israel is here to stay, and for the future
By JAMES CLEVENSON
with photos by Jade Elizabeth
“We build! We build for the future!”
This was perhaps the main message of Micah Halpern’s Jan. 23 talk about the Palestinians’ propaganda war on Israel. “Israel is here to stay,” he said. The real negotiation between Israel and the Palestinians is not about giving and taking land, “it’s about [...]
My memories of Yom Yerushalem 1967
By EPHY CARMEL
Overview and Background
The liberation of Jerusalem during the Six Day War was achieved using a military force the size of a reinforced division. This was not an “organic” division with its own command structure and with its own CO and staff, but rather an assembly of units directly controlled by the Israeli Central [...]
Posted in Blog, Exclusive Features, News & Politics
Tagged Ammunition-Hill, Augusta, Brigade, CARMEL Overview, Col., command, Egypt, General Uzi Narkis, Israel, Jerusalem, jerusalem area, jerusalem brigade, Jordan, Judea, mt scopus, northeastern Jordanian, Rabbi Goren, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Samaria
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OPINION: Will redistricting diminish the influence of the Jewish community?
By MARC GRONICH
Redistricting is a process undertaken every 10 years with the release of new census data so each of Albany County’s 39 legislators serve roughly the same number of residents. This year’s proposed redistricting could diminish the influence of the Albany Jewish community.
Albany County has 304,204 residents. Divided by 39 districts, that means each [...]
Posted in Blog, Exclusive Features, Local, News & Politics, Opinion-Analysis
Tagged Albany, Albany County, Bethlehem, community, county legislator, government representation, Harold Joyce Albany, Israel, Leah Golby, MARC GRONICH, member legislature, Phil Steck, Redistricting, redistricting commission, Reporter A
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‘On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog,’…or a lunatic
By FAYE BITTKER
BEERSHEBA, Israel (JTA)–The blogger is a dog…Or a lunatic, extremist or just someone whose opinion you would dismiss were you really to know him.
Like the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon, where one dog explains to the other that “On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog,” we are inundated today with information [...]
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Tagged 24 hour news, Alex Berlyne, critical thinking skills, dog, FAYE BITTKER, Israel, Jerusalem, new yorker cartoon, someone
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Posted in Blog, Exclusive Features, Organizations
Tagged Andrew, contest rules, Gifts, jewish new year, new year, Win
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Community mourns loss of Rabbi Szenes
By EUGENE WHITE
SCHENECTADY–“Very few people have the ability to express fully in words and actions the goodness within them,” eulogized Daniel Vollweiler at the funeral of his grandfather, Rabbi Michael Szenes. “His actions were all the more profound given the experiences through which he lived.”
The Schenectady Jewish community continues to mourn Szenes, longtime spiritual leader [...]
Posted in Exclusive Features, Obituaries
Tagged Abraham Heschel, Amsterdam, Ben, Benjamin, Boston, Brooklyn, Burnt Hills, Chicago, Congregation, Daniel Vollweiler, David Coplon, Eric Vollweiler, Eugene, gates of heaven, Hannah Dakin, Hungary, I, Isaac Bashevis, Jordana Weil, Kendra Schlussel-, Larissa Steele, Lawrence, Lulu Field, Miriam, Mordecai Kaplan, New Hampshire, Peter, Rabbi Bert Bloom, rabbi emeritus, Rabbi Matt Cutler, Rabbi Michael Szenes, Rabbi Szenes, Rabbi Way, Rabbi
A, reform rabbi, Robert Szenes, Ruth Yorker, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Switzerland, Torah, Vietnam, William
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Albany Daf Yomi Talmud study
Court rules protect the accused
By JACK KAPLOWITZ
Courts were instituted to enforce normative behavior to protect society, and to deter people from taking the law into their own hands. So it was in ancient times; so it is now.
For the past four months, our Albany daf yomi group (along with the worldwide daf yomi) has [...]
UPDATE 2: UAlbany Judaic Studies Department
ALBANY– “There is no intention of eliminating the Judaic Studies Department program, major or the Center for Jewish Studies,” according to University at Albany spokesman Karl Luntta. “There are no plans to change the structure of the department.” Luntta spoke in reply to a post on The Jewish World’s web site concerning rumors of the department’s closure.
Dr. [...]
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Tagged Albany, Department, Dr. Joel Berkowitz, Jewish, joel berkowitz, Judaic, judaic studies department, judaic studies program, Karl Luntta, leadership positions, lot, Mark Raider, Olga Litvak, record conversations, UAlbany, ualbany campus, University, University at Albany Judaic Studies
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Kosher meat prices—eating a hole in your wallet?
By Eugene White
ALBANY–For two decades, if you kept kosher Sholom Rubashkin set your food bill. Rubashkin’s Agriprocessors slaughterhouses and meatpacking facilities in Postville, Iowa, and Gordon, Neb., dominated the kosher beef and poultry markets in America. While other firms held a share of the industry, Agriprocessors’ size allowed it to set the market.
And that market [...]
