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Northern Light: Safed Gets First Traffic Signal

Known as the home of numerous Jewish luminaries in its 700-year history, the northern city of Safed is set to get its first traffic light. The new installation, expected to start operating in the coming days, will serve Safed’s 40,000 residents as it moderates traffic at the Birya Junction at the northern entrance of the […]

Music And Spirituality At ‘Rising Song’ Event

Rabbi Yosef Goldman, a leader in the movement to bring Jewish spirituality and song together, has a simple goal: “My central concern today is bringing people together and fostering a sense of community through music.” That goal brought Goldman — who learned to daven from Cantor Sherwood Goffin at Lincoln Square Synagogue but who is […]

Suspect In Monsey Machete Attack Had Journals With References To Hitler

NEW YORK (JTA) — Prosecutors filed federal hate crimes charges Monday against the man who allegedly attacked several individuals with a machete during a Hanukkah celebration at a Hasidic rabbi’s home in Monsey. “Officials said they had recovered handwritten journals expressing anti-Semitic views, including references to Adolf Hitler and ‘Nazi culture,’ and drawings of a […]

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Northern Light: Safed Gets First Traffic Signal

Music And Spirituality At ‘Rising Song’ Event

Suspect In Monsey Machete Attack Had Journals With References To Hitler

Chuck Schumer Calls To Quadruple Federal Security Grant Funding For Nonprofits

Jewish Groups To Hold A Solidarity March In N.Y.C This Sunday

After Terror in Monsey, Residents Express Concerns About ‘Tomorrow’

Buoyed by Primary Victory, Netanyahu Looks to Courts for Legal Immunity

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‘There is Life After Politics’

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