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Mar 09th
    Yom Shlishi, 23 AdarI 5770

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Camp Ramah's Rainmaker

Camp Ramah's Rainmaker

WHAT do fine cigars and a brand-new Jewish summer camp have in common?

Absolutely nothing, would be the perfectly logical answer.

Wrong.

There is indeed common ground between these two disparate topics, in the form of one David Engleberg, a Denver businessman and Jewish community activist.

At this stage of Engleberg’s life, fine cigars and summer camps are primary, if polar opposite, interests. He approaches both with a thoughtful enthusiasm that well complements his soft-spoken, low-key personality.

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Jewish Prague: a photographic tour

Jewish Prague: a photographic tour

This photographic tour of Jewish Prague is available as a Google Map, featuring a map of the area, walking route, photos and descriptions.

The majority of Prague’s remaining synagogues are owned by the city’s Jewish Museum, which has created a tour from the six sites it maintains. From one perspective, there is appreciation of the beauty of the synagogues, the preservation, the chronicling of history. Conversely, others feel pain or displacement that these holy sites form a museum instead of a living, Jewish organism.

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JTA News

Biden blasts housing starts as ‘undermining’ trust

9 March 2010, 6:46 pm Vice President Joe Biden denounced a decision to authorize new Jerusalem housing starts as "undermining the trust" that he needs to advance peace while in Israel.... [Link]

David Kimche, top Israeli spy, dies at 82

9 March 2010, 5:47 pm David Kimche, the Israeli spy who played a key role in Israel's 1980s entanglements with Iran and Lebanon, has died.... [Link]

Brooklyn rabbi found guilty of sexual assault

9 March 2010, 5:25 pm A Brooklyn rabbi was found guilty of sexually assaulting a male teenager.... [Link]

Reform task force: Reach out to interfaith couples

9 March 2010, 4:37 pm The Reform movement should encourage interfaith couples to stay in the Jewish community, a task force proposed.... [Link]

Oren offers to return to Irvine university

9 March 2010, 4:08 pm Israel's U.S. ambassador has offered to return to the California university where students interrupted his speech last month.... [Link]

Israel wants to produce nuclear energy

9 March 2010, 3:45 pm Israel announced its interest in producing electricity from nuclear energy at a conference in Paris.... [Link]

American Latina leaders visiting Israel

9 March 2010, 2:28 pm Twelve prominent American Latina leaders are visiting Sephardic heritage sites during a mission to Israel.... [Link]

Spanish bookstore owner jailed for justifying genocide

9 March 2010, 1:43 pm A Barcelona bookshop owner was sentenced to prison for the crime of “honoring and justifying genocide.”... [Link]

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