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WASHINGTON, March 10 (JTA) — This time the notoriously anti-Semitic Egyptian press went too far. A government-supported tabloid magazine accused the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, Daniel Kurtzer, of masquerading as a “Jewish rabbi disguised as a diplomat.” Kurtzer, an Orthodox Jew who took up his post in mid-January, had flown a rabbi in from Washington […]

NEW YORK, March 16 (JTA) — The answer to the Jewish continuity crisis? Turn on your television and travel through Jewish history with Mitzvah Mouse, says Jay Sanderson, the head of the Jewish Television Network. Mitzvah Mouse is a purple, Muppet-like puppet who sprinkles sparkly “magic matzah meal” around to take two puppet pals, Rachel […]