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Israel extends aid to Syrian refugees
Ben Sales, JTAOct 24, 2013
MAFRAQ, Jordan The purple plastic sacks fill two rooms in the otherwise sparsely furnished headquarters of a Jordanian NGO, awaiting distribution to Syrian refugees...
RTD anti-Israel ads timed to infuriate delegates to JNF conference
Chris LeppekOct 24, 2013
For the next couple of weeks, a lot of Denver Jews can expect to be upset. That is, if they happen to see the signs attached to the sides of […]
Study: One in four European Jews afraid to wear kippah
JTAOct 24, 2013
KIEV A quarter of respondents in a survey of Jews from nine European countries said they avoid visiting places and wearing symbols that identify them as Jews for fear...
Day school grants in exchange for learning
IJN StaffOct 24, 2013
ROSE Community Foundation and the Kohelet Foundation have partnered to fund a Denver program that covers part of day school tuition in exchange for parents commitment...
Council of Europe waffles on circumcision
JTAOct 17, 2013
JERUSALEM There is a clear difference between female genital mutilation and male circumcision for religious reasons, the head of the Council of Europe wrote to...
NCSY helps cleanup in Boulder
JTAOct 17, 2013
New Jersey NCSY is sending a delegation of 17 Jewish teens from both public high schools and yeshivas to Boulder, Colo., from Sunday, Oct. 20-Wednesday, Oct. 23 to...
Montreal Jewry bled by rising nationalism
JTAOct 10, 2013
By Ron Csillag, JTA MONTREAL — Battered and bruised by decades of separatist governments, restrictive language laws and a modern-day exodus, the Jewish community of...
Debate over survey doesn’t die down
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 10, 2013
NEW YORK If youre pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Jewish identity building, what do you do when a survey comes along showing that the number of US...
‘Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado’ fades into history; now it’s JEWISHcolorado
Hillel GoldbergOct 03, 2013
THE Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado and the Jewish Community Foundation merged into JEWISHcolorado at the annual meeting of the federation this week. After 67...
Survey: More Jews, less Judaism
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 03, 2013
2013 Steinhardt/Cohen study of Jewish Americans liable to fuel some debate NEW YORK There are a lot more Jews in America than you may have thought an estimated...
