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Global News Midler, Seinfeld, Biden headline Jewish museum opening Philadelphia (JTA) — Vice President Joe Biden, Jerry Seinfeld and Bette Midler headlined a festive opening weekend for the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The gala events marked the culmination of a decade-long, $150 million effort to move from a small space adjoining a synagogue to an impressive structure situated in the center of historic Philadelphia, near the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and the Constitution Center, the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent reported. more
Leaders of the MetroWest Jewish community are urging the Morristown-based Honeywell International to cease any further business dealings with Iran. In a Nov. 12 letter to Honeywell CEO David Cote, four local leaders in the campaign to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons call on the corporation to provide them with “full and transparent description of all of Honeywell’s business interests in Iran.” more Local News courtesy of |
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| "Max"imum Potential — A UJC Blog | |
| Max Kleinman shares his thoughts about what's important to the MetroWest community. | |
| The Problem with Containment — Part II As stated in last week’s blog, more and more policymakers in Washington, D.C. have given up on preventing Iran from going nuclear. Instead, they will rely on a policy of containment, which worked well during the “Cold War.” Unfortunately, any parallel with the Cold War ignores the many dissimilarities between that era and the unique dangers presented by a nuclear-armed Iran. more |
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Being Jewish means something different to everyone. The "What's Your #ish?" campaign invites people to describe what being Jewish means to them by posting their definition, their "ish," on Facebook or Twitter. By adding teh "#" symbol to each "ish," the posts will be linked on a new site especially for this campaign called whatsyourish.com. For every definition, a quarter goes towards the #ish fund. So Facebook it. Tweet it. Tag it with #ish. Visit whatsyourish.com. |
| From Leslie's Laptop | |
| A blog by Leslie Dannin Rosenthal, UJA Vice Chair, Major Gifts |
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| My Mother-in-Law — My Inspiration as a Jewish Woman Leader In the last few months, I’ve written a little bit about my mother-in-law, Ethel Rosenthal, and I’m sad to report that I must now say my mother-in-law of blessed memory. I wrote about her last in the context of Shavuot and the story of Ruth and Naomi. I was so lucky to have Ethel as my mother-in-law — she was an inspiration to me as a Jewish woman leader, and as a Jewish woman, period. more |
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| On the Ground in Israel | |
| A personal view of our efforts in Israel from Amir Shacham, UJC MetroWest Director of Israel Operations | |
| Saba Avram I was recently stuck in Europe under a volcano cloud with millions of people and my own older parents. The closed sky caught us in Hungary with all its painful Jewish history, a week after their national elections in which a far right party won much power, a few days after Yom Hashoa (Holocaust remembrance day) and symbolically during Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli memorial and independence days). more |
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