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BEHIND THE HEADLINES Chicago’s Jewish community shaken after shooting rampage

CHICAGO, July 5 (JTA) — A weekend shooting spree that left two men dead and six Jews wounded is sending shock waves through the Jewish community here. The shootings, which police said were carried out by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, a 21-year-old man who belonged to a white supremacist group, ended late Sunday night with the […]

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TRANSFORMING A COMMUNITY [Part 1] Today’s adoptions force new thinking in Jewish community

NEW YORK, July 1 (JTA) — Adoption — it”s an ancient practice mentioned often in the Torah. But with modern developments, adoption is transforming the Jewish community. A growing number of children from different ethnic backgrounds are becoming part of American Jewish families, some of whom are urging a re-evaluation of what it means to […]

TRANSFORMING A COMMUNITY [Part 3] Multiracial adoptions change the face and color of Jewish life

NEW YORK, July 1 (JTA) — His mom was a little worried about sending Ari Wolff, 8, to overnight camp for the first time this summer. She had the usual concerns: Will he be homesick? At a Reform movement camp in California, will he be too far from their home in Honolulu? But she also […]

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