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–Katie Miranda
Coming on the heels of the recent controversy surrounding settler incitement against Palestinians in Hebron, the Alternative Information Center (an independent Israeli-Palestinian news agency) reports,
On the evening of Monday, March 19, 2007 around 200 settlers from Kiryat Arba’ and other small outposts and settlements in Hebron city, occupied a building belonging to Fayez Rajabi [...]
JPost reports:
Every Sunday school student knows Pessah for its ban on food that rises, but a growing number of Jews are asking whether the holiday also precludes them from getting high.
Hemp has increasingly been spotted on the list of kitniyot, or legumes, that Ashkenazi Jews abstain from eating during Pessah, according to several influential rabbinical [...]
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Aryeh Cohen and Shaul Magid have launched a new initiative — a Jewish coalition against the Iraq War. Full press release follows.
Coalition Announces Launch of “Jews Against the War” to Give Voice to Anti-War Jewish Majority - New Gallup Poll Shows 77% of American Jews Oppose War
(CA - Los Angeles) On the fourth anniversary [...]
I’ve just been accepted to Elat Chayyim’s Neshama Internship. That means I’ll be out at Isabella Freedman from the end of May through August. W00t!
If you want to spend the summer with me and an awesome group of other folks out in the woods, taking exciting classes (PDF) with inspiring rabbis [...]
Funny story… My friend Rich just sent this photo to me, and right after I finished uploading it, my friend Nick (a longtime Jewschool contributor) IMed me his photos from today’s demo. Guess who took the photo Rich sent me? Small world…
Haaretz reports,
A dress made from the fabric of a kaffiyeh and a beer-bottle cap used as the base for a wristwatch. These are two of the ideas presented by students of the Jewelry and Fashion department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and currently displayed in an exhibition at the Tel Aviv [...]
