Flickr Israel announced Thursday the construction of nearly 1,500 housing units in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with a possible

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Two weekends ago, I traveled 40 minutes northwest of Phnom Penh by tuk-tuk, the ubiquitous three-wheeled form of transport in Southeast Asia. I was going to see something strange: Cambodia’s first Jewish cemetery, which was inaugurated in April. The cemetery is the brainchild of Rabbi Bentzion Butman, who has run ...

by Rachel Harkham More than three thousand years ago, as the story goes, the Israelites received the Torah from God

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Photo credit: Maria Bryk Should a rabbi be forced to give marriage counseling to a same-sex couple? Should a landlord

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by Wesley G. Pippert When I went to watch Freud’s Last Session, I thought I’d see a tell-all session on

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by Sarah Breger Right to left: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Chris Christie and his wife at Sunday’s awards night In a

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Recipes by Rachel Harkham As we found out while coming up with the Top 10 Jewish Foods for May’s Jewish-American Heritage

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by Rachel E. Gross Freedom House Recently, one of our readers noticed something strange at Washington, DC’s Newseum. Standing in

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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks gave an impassioned “State of the Jewish World Address” at the American Jewish Committee Global Forum

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  On May 8, Moment Magazine Editor-in-Chief Nadine Epstein and Senior Editor Dina Gold sat down with Mohammed S. Dajani,

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Long ago, a few Jewish foods made themselves an indispensable part of the way Americans eat. So thorough was their assimilation that their popularity swiftly overshadowed their cultural origins. (These days, who thinks “Jewish” when they reach for their bagel and schmear?) ...

This week in Jewish news, from fun to awful. Turns out knishes are stuffed—with history. The humble origins of the

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