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Soul Jew

U.S.-born Yehuda Menashe brings color to the Hasidic music world

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Laura, Sarah, Susan and Jodyne Silverman - Beth Ann O'hara

Seeing the holy in the profanities

Susan Silverman gives rabbinic interpretation to her comic sister's act

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A change of scenery

New "Fiddler" show features Chagall-inspired backdrop

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Absorption Ministry closes popular program for settling immigrants in cities 0 comments

Ayalon to discuss conversion bill with U.S. Jewish leaders 0 comments

Personal ties with the issue 0 comments

BBC World Service goes off HOT's broadcasts mysteriously 0 comments

Rabbi David Forman, 65, laid to rest 0 comments

Toby Press cutbacks cast pall over local English-language book scene with Raphael Ahren 0 comments

Branching out

Though the Zionist leader has no direct descendants, hundreds of distant relatives have fulfilled Herzl’s dream.

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American-Israelis buck trend of growing citizenship renouncements 0 comments

JNF sheds light on solar deal 0 comments

Don't judge these ex-pats 0 comments

Birthright flourishes as potential competitor sinks 0 comments

Happy 150th

In keeping with a 2004 law the Knesset enacted on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death, Herzl Day is marked annually on Herzl's Hebrew birthday by a special Knesset session.

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Happy 150th 0 comments

Ashes to ashes, vacation to dust 0 comments

New York immigrant rabbi sets out to reform 'madness' of Orthodox matchmaking world 0 comments

Four years on, family of fallen soldier Benji Hillman carry on his work 0 comments

Immigrant professionals chafe over rumors of popular program being cut 0 comments

Best man's bid to fly to Israel thwarted by volcanic ash cloud

Israelis stranded in London as Iceland volcanoes ground European air traffic.

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The Holocaust can happen again, warns top anti-Semitism scholar

Robert Wistrich, a British-Israeli historian, believes current era poses genocidal threat to Jews.

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Down Under comedian brings show to Israel 0 comments

Son of German soldier helps open survivors hostel in Haifa 0 comments

Still flying after all these years

South African rugby legend Wilf Rosenberg recently moved to Ra?anana and still draws admiration.

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