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J Weekly - Thu Jul 16, 2:36 pm ETIsrael’s men’s tennis team, after completing a stunning 4-1 victory over Russia on July 12, will visit Spain for the semifinals of the Davis Cup over the Rosh Hashanah weekend of September 18-20.
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Israel’s men’s tennis team, after completing a stunning 4-1 victory over Russia on July 12, will visit Spain for the semifinals of the Davis Cup over the Rosh Hashanah weekend of September 18-20.
Sisterhood Neve Shalom, 250 Grove Ave., Metuchen, is offering the opportunity to send a sweet gift of certified pure kosher honey to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with a personalized gift along with a signed gift card. Jars are $10, which includes postage inside the United States. Four to six jars will cost $9 each, and seven or more jars will cost $8 each.
Tel Aviv — If there is a prayer for a pinpoint passing shot or a booming ace or a just-out-of-reach lob, Israelis will be reciting it come Sept. 18, the eve of Rosh HaShanah.
The East Ramapo Board of Education is seeking to move next year's school board and budget election up a week because the state-designated day conflicts with a Jewish holiday.
RAMAPO - Police were hunting for two men accused of robbing a 24-hour service station early this morning and getting away with cash. More The East Ramapo Board of Education is seeking to move next year's school board and budget election up a week because the state-designated day conflicts with a Jewish holiday.
Anytime Anne Fishel and her family talk about behaviors that are out of bounds during family meals, they come back to the Yom Kippur Incident.
The annual Norwood Day celebration may be moved from its scheduled Sept. 19 date due to a conflict with Rosh Hashanah.
The Phelps clan from the God Hates Fags Ministries of the Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church, in New York for a weekend of bashing Jewish groups, got a two-fer Sunday morning, June 21. On their second stop of the day, at 9 a.m., six of their number picketed Congregation Beth Simchat Torah (CBST), the LGBT synagogue, in the West Village, and were met by about 200 counter-demonstrators.
Sisterhood Neve Shalom, 250 Grove Ave., Metuchen, is offering the opportunity to send a sweet gift of certified pure kosher honey to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with a personalized gift along with a signed gift card.
A former Postville meat plant executive named in a 142-count federal indictment was granted special permission this morning to leave Iowa for a two-day religious trip to New York.
Leaders of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah raised $10,000 in 50 minutes after asking their supporters to pledge $1 for every minute six protesters near the synagogue A Manhattan synagogue managed to turn an anti-gay and anti-Semitic demonstration into a lucrative fundraiser Sunday.
Bearing signs that read "You Will Eat Your Babies" and "Fags Doom Nations," members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church showed up at gay-friendly The Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in the West Village ready to give its members a piece of their mind. Westboro member Steve Drane told NY1 , " Anywhere where God's word needs to be preached to an unrepentant generation, that's where we'll ...
Two weeks ago, we mentioned a special pig roast going on at Alison at Blue Bell . Seeing as the last time we ate at one of Chef Alison Barshak's restaurants, it was for a Jewish holiday , it seemed only fitting that we should move from the kosher to the treyf, the divine to the mundane. Not that there was anything mundane about the food at Alison's pig roast. We began with a rich gazpacho, ...