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O.U. boosting effort to bring gov’t funding into Jewish schools

“The real solution to the tuition crisis lies in using our political power and our advocacy efforts to increase state and local government funding for yeshivot and day schools,” O.U. leader Allen Fagin said.

N.Y. lawmakers call on Jewish community to attend police officer’s funeral

New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind and New York City Councilman David Greenfield urged their Jewish constitutents to attend the funeral of Wenjian Liu.

Discover the Jewish Cemetery Inside the General Motors Plant

Oddly enough, one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the Midwest shares space with a car manufacturer. In the 1860s, congregants of Shaarey Zedek in Metro Detroit, acquired land for a cemetery, which they named Beth Olem, in which to bury their dead. 120 years later, General Motors, using eminent domain, expanded onto the property and […]

Chicago synagogue, garages defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti

Suburban Philly home targeted with ‘Move Jew’ graffiti

Portland preschool pushes boundaries of Jewish outdoors education

Penn group nixes Chris Hedges as speaker following Israel-ISIS comparison

DCJCC chief: Theater J head Ari Roth not fired over politics

For a Jewish baseball purist, Cuba beckons

5 poker tips from champ Ari Engel

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