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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Extras 226 Archived Articles Found in Extras Next 20 Articles > 21) Posted Jun 22 2011 NYPD Celebrates 100 Years Of Jewish Chaplaincy By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter "It's important not to forget where we come from, and who paved the way for where we are today," said Detective Paul Daniel of the New York Police Department. Read Article 22) Posted Jun 15 2011 EMET In The Nation's Capitol By Devora Mandell, Jewish Press Correspondent For years Sarah Stern has been a constant presence in the halls of Congress, sometimes even single-handedly knocking on doors and advocating for Israel's right to defend itself and its citizens. Despite the many detractors who at various times have held a stranglehold on Washington's policy toward Israel, Stern has continued to highlight Arab terror and educate the public on the comprehensive history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Her mission has always been to simply tell the truth. Read Article 23) Posted Jun 15 2011 Entrepreneurs Gather In Jerusalem To Reshape The Jewish World By Steve K. Walz, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent JERUSALEM - A perfect storm of converging international business conventions and organizational meetings filled Jerusalem and Tel Aviv hotels to capacity this week as Israel became the focal point for some of the world's most important Jewish decision-makers. Read Article 24) Posted Jun 07 2011 An Emotional Account Of My Grandmother's Death - Al Kiddush Hashem By Joseph Scutts Eight years ago, on June 11, 2003, my angelic, beautiful and loving grandmother, Bertin Tita, of blessed memory, was murdered in a suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem by an18-year-old Palestinian terrorist. Read Article 25) Posted Jun 07 2011 Pilot Episode of 'Wartime Witnesses' Screened In Manhattan By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Last week, over 200 people at Temple Shaaray Tefila and the Hungarian Consulate in New York watched the pilot episode of "Wartime Witnesses," a new 12-part documentary series on the experiences of European civilians who lived through World War II. The first episode, "The Selection," focuses on the accounts of several Hungarian women sent to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944. Read Article 26) Posted Jun 01 2011 Cooperating To Lower School Tuition: Parents In New Jersey Try A New Kind Of Yeshiva By Sandy Eller While parents nationwide struggle to cope with escalating yeshiva tuition, a group of forward thinking West Orange, N. J., parents have devised an idea to lower tuition costs without skimping on the quality of their children's education. Read Article 27) Posted Jun 01 2011 *Recollections Of Dayan* Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine By Rabbi Dr. A. Yehuda Warburg Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine, z"l, passed away on the first day of Pesach. Prior to his demise, Rabbi Levine prepared a foreword to a forthcoming book authored by one of his colleagues wherein he writes the following: Read Article 28) Posted May 25 2011 Before The Deluge: The Jews Of Iraq (Part II) By Ezra James Nollet At the beginning of the 18th century the Jews of Baghdad began emigrating to India, and a portion of these eventually wound up making it to China. At the end of the 19th century, an emigration to Palestine began. Read Article 29) Posted Apr 28 2011 The Birth Of Ezer Mizion By C. Miller A young man marries, looking forward to spending long hours with his new wife, sharing experiences from their days of youth, planning how they will bring up their children, and holding lengthy sessions deciding the merits of keeping his shirts in a drawer or in the closet. The first year of marriage, delighting in sharing a cup of coffee and the wife spending hours preparing for the young man's nightly homecoming - culminating in joy as he opens the door. That's the scenario for most newlyweds. Read Article 30) Posted Apr 13 2011 Lezion B'rina Awarded 'Pras Hachinuch Hadati' The "Pras Hachinuch Hadati" award was recently presented by the Israel Ministry of Education to Lezion B'rina, a high school in the outskirts of Yerushalayim for boys from disadvantaged backgrounds in the Former Soviet Union (FSU). Read Article 31) Posted Apr 13 2011 Pesach 5771: Where To Go/What To Eat Read Article 32) Posted Mar 23 2011 Before The Deluge: The Jews Of Iraq (Part I) By Ezra James Nollet Born in 1921, the so-called Kingdom of Iraq loosely equated itself with the Babylon of old, to which Jewish settlements and culture were connected going back to the oldest of these states. In Ur Kasdim, which today is Mukajjar, stood the cradle of the Patriarch Abraham, who in his mature years wandered out to Canaan, the future Palestine. From the end of the 6th century before the Common Era there has been a dense Jewish population in Babylon. First of all Jewish immigrants gathered themselves together in Nippur and neighboring districts. At that time, it is interesting to note, a settlement on the River Kebar was founded by exiled Jews from Judea that bore the name Tel Aviv. Read Article 33) Posted Mar 23 2011 Destiny's Child: Divine Intervention And A Lifetime Of Achievement By Joyce Schur You might not think of describing an octogenarian as destiny's child unless you hear the story from the beginning. This story began when a ten-year old named Gustave Jacobs first recognized that the protective hand of God was the only barrier sheltering him from death. When Jacobs and his entire family managed to survive, he spent the rest of his life proving to be worthy of that protection, and has indeed succeeded in that mission. Read Article 34) Posted Mar 16 2011 Sixty-Five Years And Four Generations By Dr. Yitzchok Levine Sixty-five years is a long time. Indeed, it was not until about 1947 that a person born in that year could expect to live to at least age 65. So when one encounters a couple who have been married for sixty-five years, it is certainly worth noting. Read Article 35) Posted Mar 09 2011 UJA And AmeriCorps Team Up For Purim As Jewish New Yorkers prepare to celebrate Purim, UJA-Federation of New York is teaming up with AmeriCorps to help defeat hunger. The campaign, Pack It Up for Purim, is a communitywide effort to create at least 1,000 food packages for hungry New Yorkers, and to take part in the Purim tradition of mishloach manot, offering a charitable food package to a neighbor or someone in need. Read Article 36) Posted Mar 02 2011 Eyelash Extensions By Sharona Silva Many women covet long, full lashes. For years, women used different products such as mascara and false lash application to make the eye appear awake and youthful. In the past few years, however, eyelash extensions are becoming more popular and more readily accessible to consumers. Read Article 37) Posted Mar 02 2011 Midwood Supermarket Expansion Sparks Controversy** By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Who knew a supermarket expansion could be so controversial? Moisha's Discount Supermarket, a popular kosher retail outlet in Brooklyn's Midwood section, was preliminarily approved by New York City's Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to receive $1.93 million in tax abatements over the next 20 years in return for doubling its store size from 7,000 to 15,000 square feet. The money is to come from the city's FRESH - Food Retail Expansion to Support Health - program. Read Article 38) Posted Feb 23 2011 Inglot By Sharona Silva Many of us like to shop at MAC for most or all of our cosmetics. I, myself, use many MAC products on a daily basis and I use them on my clients. Recently, though, I have come across another great make-up line called Inglot. Inglot was established over 25 years ago by a Polish chemist Wojtek Inglot. Since then, 240 retail locations have opened up worldwide, five of which are here in the U.S. - in Las Vegas, Miami, Newport Beach-CA, New Jersey, and New York City (please visit inglotcosmetics.com for exact locations in those cities). Read Article 39) Posted Feb 16 2011 The Team that Thrilled Millions: Passing of Alumnus Evokes Memories of '63 Yeshiva University College Bowl Squad One of Yeshiva College's greatest student stars passed away last month at the age of 79. In May 1963, Asher Reiss was a member of Yeshiva University's College Bowl team that thrilled millions of television viewers within and outside of America's Orthodox Jewish community. Read Article 40) Posted Feb 16 2011 A Night Of Surprises At The Ohel Dinner By Naomi Klass Mauer I thought I was very familiar with the work of Ohel Children's Home & Family Services/Bais Ezra. And then I attended their annual dinner this past Sunday night, and I was in for some surprise. Just the sheer number of guests attending, well over a thousand, filling the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton, was a sight to behold. But what I discovered was how vast and far-reaching the activities of Ohel are. Read Article 226 Archived Articles Found in Extras Next 20 Articles >
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