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New York – State Reminds Schools Not To Ask About Immigration Status

By admin on September 1, 2010

New York – The State Education Department has sent school districts a memorandum strongly recommending that they not ask for information that might reveal the immigration status of enrolling students, after a civil liberties group complained that scores of districts were requesting such information in possible violation of federal law.
The memo explained that a 1982 [...]

Oxnard, CA – Herzog Wine Cellars, Where Cigar Smoking is Strictly Kosher

By admin on August 30, 2010

Oxnard, CA – Joseph Herzog is walking toward my table while he gently pulls the cork out of a bottle of a 1996 cabernet sauvignon.
“Just look at that cork,” Herzog says, handing it to me. “It’s perfect.”
So is the wine. Like silk. Rich, ruby-red silk.
“The wine is just great,” Herzog softly remarks.
The wine [...]

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Crown Heights, NY – Being A Black Orthodox Jew Without Dividing Loyalties

By admin on August 29, 2010

Crown Heights, NY – In yeshivas, they are sometimes taunted as “monkeys” or with the Yiddish epithet for blacks. At synagogues and kosher restaurants, they engender blank stares. And dating can be awkward: their numbers are so small, friends will often share at least some romantic history with the same man or woman, and matchmakers [...]

Washington – Religion-Based Groups Protest Restrictions in Bill

By admin on August 26, 2010

Washington – More than 100 religion-based organizations are protesting a provision in pending legislation that would prohibit them from receiving federal money if they consider a job applicant’s religion when hiring.
In a letter sent Wednesday to all members of Congress, the groups contend that the provision would dilute protections they have under the 1964 Civil [...]

Manhattan, NY – Shop That Speaks Yiddish Needs a Rich Man’s Help

By admin on August 25, 2010

Manhattan, NY – Every few months news seems to arrive of another nail in the coffin of Yiddish — the death of another poet or actress, the shuttering of another socialist or anarchist office, the failure of a century-old literary magazine to publish for yet another year.
Now the latest woeful news is that the only [...]

Haifa – Mandatory Studies of Arabic for Jewish Fifth Graders

By admin on August 24, 2010

Haifa – Thousands of Jewish children will begin mandatory studies in the Arabic language this school year. The new program is being led by schools in Haifa and the north, where the Arab population is most prominent.
Arabic classes will begin in the fifth grade, whereas currently students are offered classes in the language from seventh [...]

Arabic studies to become compulsory in Israeli schools

By admin on August 24, 2010

Additional Jewish News:
Arabic studies to become compulsory in Israeli schools

Israel – Reform Movement asks President to Intervene Against Sephardic Rabbi

By admin on August 16, 2010

Israel – Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar’s message against the Reform Movement, (reported here), is not going unanswered. Leaders of the Movement for Progressive Judaism in Israel sent an urgent letter on Sunday to President Shimon Peres demanded that he intervene immediately against the inflammatory statements Amar wrote in a message to Israel’s rabbis.
According to [...]

New York – Deaf Rabbis-in-Training Lead Outreach to Deaf Population

By admin on August 3, 2010

New York – Helping Jews the world over feel connected as opposed to isolated has long been the mission of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and the corps of rabbinical students who annually fan out to disparate communities across the globe.
And as one such project in Rochester, N.Y., a university town that is no stranger to established Jewish [...]

Cambridge, MA – Simple Computer Program Decodes Lost Biblical Language

By admin on July 21, 2010

Cambridge, MA – A project led by professor Regina Barzilay of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may be the first to show how ancient, lost or unknown languages can be decoded using a computer program, according to National Geographic.
The MIT team was able to decode the “lost language” of Ugaritic, an ancient Semitic language used [...]

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