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Ted Comet, Jewish communal activist and founder of NYC’s annual Israel parade, died on Wednesday at his home on the Upper ...

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As a journalist, his travels have taken him from Cuba to Gaza to the Korean DMZ, and he has interviewed newsmakers as varied as Lech Walesa, Elie Wiesel, and Mikhail Gorbachev. In addition to his ...

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The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

According to Jewish tradition, the current Hebrew month of Adar is meant to be joyful. Ancient rabbinic commentators demand: ...