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Kushner to Palestinians: Time to Resume Peace Talks

Trump’s son-in-law urges Palestinian Arabs not to miss the opportunity in the US peace plan “which may never come again”. By: A7 Staff Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, as well as one of the authors of the peace plan dubbed the “Deal of the Century”, is calling on the Palestinian Authority to […]

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January 30, 2020
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Health

NYC Health + Hospitals Reorganizes Leadership Staff

Three senior executives take on additional leadership roles Edited by: JV Staff Mitchell Katz, MD, NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO, recently announced the following new leadership appointments for three members of his executive cabinet. Their new roles are effective February 24. Christopher Roker, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, will become CEO of […]

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January 29, 2020
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Op-Ed Opinion

You Can’t Defend Haredi Jews Against Violence While Demonizing our Schools

By: Rabbi Avi Shafran Relentless campaigns calling for curricula reform in the nation’s yeshivas. Misleading headlines about educational standards at Orthodox schools. Zoning efforts aimed at keeping large Jewish families out of suburban towns. Some see a direct link between such things and the anti-Semitic violence that has erupted on the streets of Brooklyn. I […]

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January 29, 2020
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Local New York News

Upstate NY Woman Charged in Hate Crime; Threw Pork Chops at Synagogue

By: Randolph McNally Pigs don’t fly, but pork chops can, and did, in the direction of an upstate synagogue. Tara Rios, 47, of Hudson, was arraigned in Livingston Town Court two days ago. She was charged with first-degree harassment as a hate crime for allegedly pitching the pork. Rios showed up at Congregation Anshe Emeth […]

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January 29, 2020
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Op-Ed Opinion

Is Trump’s Peace Plan a Plot, a Fantasy or an Exercise in Realism?

It’s not clear whether it will bail out Bibi or hurt Gantz, but imagining a future Middle East that accepts most of these terms is actually a practical idea By: Jonathan S. Tobin As far as many Israeli commentators are concerned, it’s all a plot to help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and undermine the chances […]

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January 29, 2020
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Local New York News

NYC’s Fairway Stores File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; 2nd Time in 4 Years

By: Vincent Moriarty Fairway Market has reportedly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in under four years. Published reports also maintain that the company’s executives intend to sell as many as five of its retail locations, with more among the remaining nine stores to come. In its Thursday court filing, Manhattan-based […]

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January 29, 2020
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Jewish Features Torah

ABCs of Tu B’Shvat

The “new year for trees” has a special set of meaningful customs. By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Tu B’Shvat appears in the Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 2a) as one of the four “new years” in the Jewish calendar: “Beit Hillel says that the ‘new year for the trees’ is the 15th of Shevat – Tu B’Shvat.” The […]

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January 29, 2020
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Local New York News

Push for Rezoning in SoHo Lacks DeBlasio Support; Higher Housing Density at Stake

By: Ilana Siyance Rezoning for the SoHo or NoHo neighborhoods may remain an aloof idea. On Friday, Mayor Bill de Blasio made a point of clarifying that the proposed zoning change to allow the construction of new housing in two of the Big Apple’s priciest neighborhoods is still far off. “Can we put together the […]

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January 29, 2020
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Parsha Torah

Parshas Bo–The Redemption Comes When Things Seem Bleakest

By: Rabbi Yissocher Frand This week’s parsha contains a “famous pasuk”: “They baked the dough that they took out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for they could not be leavened, for they were driven from Egypt for they could not delay nor had they made provisions for themselves.” [Shmos 12:39]. I refer to this pasuk […]

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January 29, 2020
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JV Editorial Opinion

The Anti-Jewish Bias of the Royal Family

Prince Charles, heir to the British Crown, attended the recent World Holocaust Forum at the Holocaust Remembrance Center at Yad Vashem last week, to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He also met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, and in a strange set of circumstances, later joined and graciously […]

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January 29, 2020
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