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How Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein cracked the code on Jewish-evangelical relations

Written by Jacob Kamaras Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein cracked the code on relations between Jews and evangelical Christians. His next "Mission: Impossible" might be thwarting the widespread persecution of Middle East Christians, most notably at the hands of the merciless Islamic State terror group.

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Bidding farewell to Ezra Schwartz, American victim of Palestinian terror

It was eerily quiet in the old Ben Gurion Airport building in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, considering the bustle of vacationers flying out to Eilat. In fact, of the 500 people gathered, many of them were students spending the year after high school in Israel's yeshivas, seminaries,

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“Wall of Honor” in Jerusalem honors Jewish soldiers nationwide

Fact: During World War I, 10 percent of the officers in the German army were Jewish. Fact: During World War II, 4.7 percent of soldiers in the United States Armed Forces were Jewish, despite comprising less than 2 percent of the population. Jews have always served in the military

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Netanyahu to Jewish Federations: U.S., Israel ‘should work together’ on Iran

Despite their disagreement over the Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. and Israel "can and should work together now" to ensure that Iran complies with the agreement and to curb Iranian aggression throughout the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the General Assembly of

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In Austin, 19th-century synagogue meets 21st-century Jewish community

Like its environs, the Jewish community of Austin, Texas, has a youthful feel. Situated in a city known for live music, the University of Texas (UT) campus, and the founding of Michael Dell's computer technology giant in his UT dorm room, the 40-acre Dell Jewish Community Campus mirrors

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In history of Jewish lawyers, Alan Dershowitz and Abraham are two of a kind

In his latest sharp-witted work, perhaps the world's most well-known Jewish lawyer profiles the man he considers to the first-ever Jewish lawyer: the biblical patriarch Abraham. Retired Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer&

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In ‘holy flash mob,’ Shabbat Project rallies 5,000 partners across 500 cities

Hundreds of thousands of Jews. Hundreds of thousands of challahs, candlesticks, and zemirot (Jewish songs). Havdalah. From Oct. 23-24, Jews of all ages, levels of religious observance, and geographic locations will come together to celebrate the Jewish people's oldest friend: Shabbat.

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On Syrian refugee crisis, Jewish community moves from words to action

Will Recant pulls both heartstrings and purse strings for a living. As the head of the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, a consortium of 49 national Jewish organizations, he has been at the center of the American Jewish reaction to 20 global crises in the last 20 years. Of late,