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- Speaker discusses post-Soviet Jewry
The Social Action Shabbat at the Falmouth Jewish Congregation, features speaker Judy Patkin from Action for Post-Soviet Jewry, an organization that assists Jews residing in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, identifying struggling pensioners and aiding Jewish day school students.
June 16, 2013 - The Falmouth Bulletin - Conversation with… Rabbi Debra Cantor
Bloomfield rabbi reflects on the state of American Jewry – 25 years after being among the first group of women ordained by the Conservative movement. By Cindy Mindell BLOOMFIELD – She... Read more »
June 12, 2013 - Jewish Ledger
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- Yisrael Meir Lau in Beliefnet.com
He changed my life, by giving me the example of a man who on the one hand marches with Martin Luther King, protests the war on Vietnam, marches for Soviet Jewry and meets with the pope, but on the other hand is deeply immersed in tradition and... Arnold Eisen http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Eisen&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGWUYVSBaM7gb8BFwafTWmmj2u92Q International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/12/america/NA-FEA-REL-US-American-Judaism.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFrAZY60fzkpa8I9pb9zH0IHIsx5A Sep 11, 2007 54565 72090 jewry I see the end of the Diaspora of Jews in Europe," Lau said. "I call on the government to prepare for a new phase in the spiritual and physical absorption of European Jewry before they consider emigrating to the United States or Australia. - David G. Roskies in Jerusalem Post
While Israel was building a state, America was the place of refuge where the severed branches [of Eastern European Jewry] could be collected and preserved,Roskies says. "Yiddish scholarship existed in Israel, but it was very academic and...