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SAN DIEGO (JTA)-What do you get when you bring together 5,000 of the Reform movement's faithful for a conference in sunny San Diego in mid-December? Four days of singing, learning, schmoozing and worrying at a gathering that seemed equal parts pep rally and intervention session. For pep, there were the spirited prayer services, the morning-till-night stream of musical performances and Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, or URJ, who compared the challenges facing...
Jewish Pavilion volunteers celebrated Chanukah at more than 35 senior care facilities in Central Florida....
By Cnaan Liphshiz PARIS (JTA)-In an overcrowded conference room in the heart of Paris' 14th arrondissement, 100 French Jews are losing their patience. They have gathered at the Paris office of the Jewish Agency for Israel for a lecture on immigrating to Israel, but the agency staff is running behind. Its 20 staffers are coping with a 57 percent jump in the number of French Jews moving to Israel over the last year and a surge of applications. In addition to four weekly public talks, they are...
NEW YORK—EL AL, Israel’s national airline, helps keep passengers connected with a number of technology improvements and new services. Tech-savvy passengers can now plan a trip using a user-friendly free vacation-planning app, download a free mobile app for pre-flight convenience and enjoy Express Check-In. With a new user-friendly Plan My Trip free EL AL app or by visiting www.elal.com, EL AL passengers have the option to plan a comprehensive vacation, saving time and money. Both the app and the EL AL website allow travelers to make their vac...
U.S. rented apartment to spy on Israel’s defense minister JERUSALEM (JTA)—The United States in 2007 rented an apartment directly across the road from then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak, it was reported in the wake of revelations that the U.S. and British intelligence were spying on Israeli leaders. Washington said the apartment was rented for a Marine working in the U.S. Embassy’s security department, Yediot Acharonot reported Sunday, adding that Israeli intelligence discovered that a large amount of electronic equipment was delivered to and s...
CATSKILL, N.Y. (JTA) – The past escorts John Thorn home from the moment he greets a visitor at a 139-year-old railroad station, crosses the Rip Van Winkle Bridge and arrives at his residence, a county historical landmark. Clad in a facsimile jacket of the defunct Negro Leagues' Kansas City Monarchs, he enters the billiards room of his home in this Hudson River town 35 miles south of Albany, N.Y., its walls crammed with old framed prints and theater posters. The environment befits the official h...
(JTA)-I grew up Jewish. Simply Jewish. My late father, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, raised us in an observant Orthodox household. Our lives were filled with beautiful ritual and we celebrated the wonder of a familial spiritual connection. That said, we also danced along the fine line of progressive Judaism. My father's Torah was an expression of the beauty of Judaism. He taught the world to love and cherish Shabbat-even on a Tuesday-and to love Jewish rituals in an open hearted, expansively...
Katie Couric hosts for AFMDA HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA)-American Friends of Magen David Adom apparently has some pretty big-name friends. In attendance at the organization's sold-out Manhattan fundraiser last week were New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and host Katie Couric. The event raised $1 million, all of which will go toward ambulances and lifesaving equipment used to respond to emergencies in Israel. "MDA's willingness to help save all lives is something we should rally behind," said Couric,...
