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Moroccan minister: Save Jewish buildings

The Moroccan government announced plans to preserve and renovate buildings that once served as Jewish schools. The Muslim nation’s education minister, Mohamed El Ouafa,...

Obama announces Holocaust Museum appointments

WASHINGTON — President Obama has appointed Todd Fisher, Robert A. Sherman, Andrea Lavin Solow and Michael Ashley Stein to the US Holocaust Memorial Council and named...

New chief rabbi faces fractious British Jewry

By Miriam Shaviv, JTA LONDON —— Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has big shoes to fill. Appointed last week as the 11th British chief rabbi, he will succeed Jonathan Sacks, an...

Jewish priorities in 2013

WASHINGTON — Will we fall of the fiscal cliff? Plunge into war with Iran? Dive into contentious confirmation battles? One thing’s for certain: There will be plenty of...

Arnold Held

Arnold Held, an active member of Temple Sinai until declining health prevented his participation, passed away Dec. 19, 2012, in Highlands Ranch. Rabbi Richard Rheins and...

Jeanne Cohan

Jeanne Claire Cohan, a native and lifelong Denverite, passed away Dec. 22, 2012, in Denver. Cantor Maurice Weiss officiated at the Dec. 23 graveside service at Rose Hill...

The not-so-cool war

Who said the Cold War is over? With the break up of the Soviet Union came some freedom of movement for those who wanted to leave the borders of the […]

UN to Israel: Give up the Golan Heights

Israel’s most consistently peaceful border since 1967 has been its border with Syria — because Israel holds the Golan Heights. Israel has removed the Syria...

Gun control is a worthy, effective public policy, not a religion

We’ll keep our worship directed to G-d, thank you, and our veneration limited to the Torah. Guns do not qualify as objects of reverence, faith or belief. The Second...

Mirrors from a traveler’s diary

I HAVE traveled and listened — traveled to the Holy Land and to New York and listened to deep and different stories. I traveled to a simcha in Israel and […]