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I’ve been busy live-blogging the response to Hurricane Sandy for JTA. A number of synagogues have sustained damage. If you know of any Jewish historical sites damaged, email sandy@jta.org so we can alert our readers. If your Jewish library, gallery, etc had collections damaged by flooding or other Sandy-related causes, the Metropolitan New York Library […]

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During the 2008 election campaign, Republican candidate John McCain stated during a visit to Israel that “Purim is the Jewish Halloween.”  Flanking him on the tour, Senator Joe Lieberman didn’t just correct him, he also took the fall for the comment: [[READMORE]] “I had a brief exchange with one of the mothers whose children was […]

Senator Arlen Specter passed away on Sunday after a long bout with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. As he took office in 1981, JTA reprinted an interview that Specter did with the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent. That item closed with these thoughts from the Pennsylvania senator about his Jewish pedigree: [[READMORE]] THE MEANING OF BEING JEWISH SPECTER: It is a […]

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