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NEW YORK, March 13 (JTA) – In what is believed to be a first in the United States, a coalition of New York philanthropists and Jewish institutions has teamed up to create a nonprofit Jewish funeral home. A Jewish federation, Jewish community center and multidenominational group of rabbis has purchased Plaza Memorial Funeral Chapel, a […]

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NEW YORK, March 13 (JTA) – The Palestinians may not be winning the war for American public opinion, but Israeli diplomats and American Jews are still forging ahead with efforts to augment Israeli “hasbarah” – a uniquely Hebrew term that falls somewhere between explanation and propaganda. The Israeli government recently took the unusual step of […]

ROME, March 14 (JTA) – Dozens of North American rabbis conducted an open-air memorial service this week at a Holocaust monument in Berlin that was desecrated the night before their gathering. “Our response to desecration is consecration; our response to destruction is construction,” Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the North American Boards of Rabbis, said […]

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