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JERUSALEM, July 26 (JTA) — Despite the failure of the Camp David summit, some optimistic notes are being sounded about the prospects for peace. Some observers are saying that the talks opened up areas of discussion the two sides had never ventured into before, and that this could prove fruitful in the weeks ahead. The […]

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JOHANNESBURG, July 27 (JTA) — The retirement of an American-born Lubavitch rabbi known for his anti-apartheid activism marks the end of an era for Johannesburg’s Jewish community. Norman Bernhard, who has led the Oxford Synagogue Center for 35 years since he arrived here in 1965, is retiring this Rosh Hashanah. The New York-born Bernhard, 66, […]

“He who does not shed tears on Rosh Hashanah bears witness to the deadness of his soul,” writes Isaac Luria, the 16th century mystic of Safed. And yet crying is not easy. When we finally do cry, we cry for all the times we never cried before. There is much to cry about: tears of […]

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