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Glenn Beck at the Zionist Organization of America fundraiser last year.
Zionist Organization of America regains tax-exempt status

United States Internal Revenue Service reverses its revocation more than a year after ZOA failure to file financial disclosures.

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The history of Mel Brooks, from jelly jars to yahrzeit glasses

Shortly before the American Film Institute honors him for a lifetime of achievement, Mel Brooks reminisces about celebrating Jewish holidays with his grandmother, the rabbi who changed him, and whether he's a crying clown on the inside.

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Rabbinical Council of America rejected ordination of three women from Riverdale’s Yeshivat Maharat: it was 'break with tradition.'

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Small but vibrant communities of Jews have lived in small towns scattered across the Deep South of the United States for generations. Many of them are disappearing for good.

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France's Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, left, talks to the media
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There is no good time to get caught for plagiarism, but with the political scene in France increasingly toxic, Rabbi Gilles Bernheim’s timing was especially off.

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Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's best friend was killed along with Brandeis University graduate and devout Jew. The murderer was never found.

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Illustration: An Indian Bollywood actress performs on April 9, 2013.
Jewish stars of Bollywood

Q&A with the maker of 'Shalom Bollywood’, a documentary that tells of the 2,000-year-old Indian Jewish community and its role in the country’s film industry.

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A Seder at the Emanuel Sisterhood House is seen in the exhibit ‘California Dreaming’
Playing the game of Jewish geography

Exhibit shows differences between West and East Coast Jews, from California to the New York Islands.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and AJC Executive Director David Harris in Jerusalem
American Jewish Committee sacks Israel staff amid tensions with N.Y. office

No explanation offered for cutting Jerusalem office director and three other staff members during organizational shakeup.

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Leo Rechter, president of the National Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
U.S. prosecutors work to keep lid on $57m Holocaust Claims Conference case

Fraud at the Holocaust Claims Conference may have been even worse than first thought. So why don’t prosecutors want a jury to hear about it?

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Sharansky to propose egalitarian section at Jerusalem's Western Wall

Plan by chairman of the Jewish Agency would mark dramatic step toward pluralism at Judaism's holiest site.

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Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, describes bribes made
Orthodox developer believed to have played key role in blockbuster N.Y. sting

Moses Stern, a member of the Satmar Hasidic community, reportedly helped prosecutors crack wide-ranging corruption case involving six prominent N.Y. politicians.

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Blogger Pamela Geller.
U.S. Jewish groups call on synagogue to cancel anti-Muslim speaker

New York left-wing activist groups request Long Island synagogue to cancel speech by Pamela Geller - and are accused of flip-flopping on freedom of speech.

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circumcision
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The New York City newborn - the second in three months - contracted neonatal herpes due to a controversial oral suctioning technique employed during ritual circumcision called metzitzah b’peh.

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Jerusalem Police bans women from holding Kaddish prayer quorum at Western Wall

Israeli police commander tells Women of the Wall chair Anat Hoffman of prohibition in letter, warning that women will be arrested and charged with breaking the law if they breach prohibitions.

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Illustration: A prison.
Yeshiva University rabbi warns sex abuse reports put innocent Jews in prison

The faculty member of the prestigious Jewish institution said rumors could lead to Jews being jailed with 'a shvartze,' an African-American, who might kill.

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Reform rabbi Peter Rubinstein
Reform rabbi Peter Rubinstein resigns from Central Synagogue

Reform rabbi Peter Rubinstein resigns from Central Synagogue

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Jason Klein becomes first openly gay man chosen to run an American rabbinic association.

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Henry Grossman captured this image of the Beatles with the Maharishi, their spiritual advisor.
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WATCH: Photographer shot thousands of photos of the Fab Four during five-year run.

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Career criminal Julio Acevedo still on the run from New York police.

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Yeshiva University, Rabbi George Finkelstein.
Yeshiva U.’s Rabbi George Finkelstein acted inappropriately even after ouster

After he was forced out of the high school in 1995 because of inappropriate wrestling with boys, Finkelstein continued the behavior in next two posts in Florida and Jerusalem.

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The Jewish author from England breaks his silence with his first nonfiction book; writing was his escape from non-stop online abuse.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools resist U.S. mandate on vegetables, fearing kosher violation

Getting schoolchildren to eat green vegetables is tough; getting ultra-Orthodox schools to serve leafy greens in school lunches could soon become impossible.

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