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Monday, April 23, 2012 Donate Now | Share This Email
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In Serbia, Jewish cemetery has its own dept. store, Roma village
EDITORS' PICKS
From planting to blessings, Boulder gets into Jewish food movement
'Mad Men' recap: Abe's bracha and Jane's Yiddish
On state aid to religious schools, a welcome reconsideration
Monitor hate crimes, as promised
Questioning a top Hamas leader (Forward)
Interrogating Marwan Barghouti (Haaretz)
Making the desert bloom solar panels (N.Y. Times)
Getting Jabotinsky all wrong (Tablet)
A Jewish journey through drugs, mental institutions and the rabbinate (N.Y. Jewish Week)
Have you been 'bageled'?
Monday, 23 April 2012
A Jewish cemetery that long has been threatened by the encroachment of a growing Roma, or Gypsy, settlement is now being threatened by the spread of commercial enterprises into the domain of the old Hebrew gravestones. Read more »
A partnership among funders, activists and environmental organizations in Boulder, Colo., is culminating with the Rocky Mountain Food Summit. Dvora Meyers reports for JTA.
This week's episode offered a few more Jewish twists, notes JTA's Ami Eden.
The permissibility and necessity of state support to make the Jewish school system viable are clear, and in 2012 we are seeing signs that this prospect may become a reality, writes Nathan J. Diament, executive director for public policy for the Orthodox Union, in a JTA Op-Ed.
Governments must be pressed to keep their promises about monitoring hate crimes, writes Gidon Van Emden, a consultant in the fields of human rights, international affairs and anti-Semitism, in a JTA Op-Ed.
In his first interview with a Jewish publication, senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook said that his Islamist movement would not regard any peace agreement with Israel as more than a truce.
The jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti acknowledged coordinating attacks on Israelis in the West Bank, with the tacit encouragement of Yasser Arafat, according to recently revealed Israeli documents describing interrogations of Barghouti.
A Negev kibbutz has become a solar energy hub.
The caricature of right-wing Zionist forefather Ze'ev Jabotinsky as an uncompromising anti-Arab warmonger does not do him justice.
Orthodox rabbi and comic author Moshe Kasher relates his eventful life journey in his new book "Kasher in the Rye."
When a person who may not look typically Jewish wishes to make their affiliation known to other Jews, they may utter a simple "Shalom." On MyJewishLearning's Members of the Scribe blog, Ron Yitzchak Eisenman chronicles his experience with this phenomenon, known as "bageling."
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