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Thanksgiving Thursday, Then #GivingTuesday

Sol Adler, executive director of the 92nd Street Y, got special delight out of paying some bills on the Chase Bank website on Sunday — before logging off, he noticed an announcement for “Giving Tuesday,” a national program under the Y’s auspices that will start next week. Giving Tuesday — the initiative’s official name is […]

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Is Criticism Of Israel Fair Game During War?

Yossi Klein Halevi and J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami debate the timing, tone of confronting Jerusalem’s policies.

Flash Mob Feminist

“My feet is tired, but my soul is rested,” a 72-year-old woman told Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1956 during the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott. This battle cry of social activism is echoed in Israel. Community leader Miri Shalem, who planned and executed last January’s flash mob in Beit Shemesh — viewed by more […]

Beyond Kvetch, Kvell: A New Lexicon

Israelis Mark Ethiopian Holiday

Streamlining The Double Life Of ‘Asher Lev’

Of Rothian Proportions

Ignoring The Rockets

We Eat Chinese On Christmas

FEMA Pressed To Change Law To Aid Synagogues

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