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NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (JTA) — A group of female Jewish scholars here recently danced joyously with a 200-year-old born in Iraq and once held prisoner by Saddam Hussein. “Here ye! Here ye! Here comes the Sefer Torah!” the women of the Drisha Institute exclaimed at the arrival of the Torah, which had made a […]

LONDON, Nov. 24 (JTA) — A 10-year-old Israeli girl has received lung transplants from her mother and a British man who had read of her plight in a London Jewish newspaper. Russian-born Lisa Ostrovsky, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, was in critical but stable condition at Children’s Hospital in St. Louis on Tuesday. Ostrovsky, who […]