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A Woodmere Orthodox synagogue that lost its Torah scrolls due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy received a donated replacement Tuesday morning by way of Kansas. The donated scroll came from Congregation Kehillat Israel in Overland Park, near Kansas City, and was delivered in a ceremony at Congregation Ahavas Yisroel in Woodmere, which had been heavily […]

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Some 150 families in the Bronx got a head start on Chanukah this week. Actually, they used their hands and feet. In preparation for the holiday, which starts with the kindling of the first Chanukah light on Saturday night, sixth-grade students from the SAR Academy in Riverdale, and from the Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck, […]

Israelis were pessimistic about prospects for peace even before the United Nations vote in favor of a Palestinian status upgrade. More than half of Israeli respondents (51 percent) to a survey compiled from Nov. 21-26 by the Dahaf Institute and Shibley Telhami do not believe that a peace agreement between the Jewish state and the […]

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