for a little slice of personal history, it has been an honor to be a candidate.

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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/19970704BPostCommunistRu.html

 Post-Communist Russia denies

some Jews permission to leave

 
 
 

 

MOSCOW, July 3 (JTA) — Six years after the collapse of communism when Jews around the world stopped chanting, “Let My People Go,” there are still refuseniks in Russia.

According to the Moscow-based Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights, a monitoring group and an affiliate of the Union of

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Councils for Soviet Jews, about 60 Russian Jews have been denied permission to emigrate on the grounds that they have had access to state secrets.

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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/OnlineJewishlearni.html

Online Jewish learning venture
has big backers — and challenges

 

 
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Yosef Abramowitz, left, David Gordis and Edgar Bronfman, right, discuss MyJewishLearning.com.

 

NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (JTA) — When mega-philanthropist Edgar Bronfman speaks, people listen — even when his message defies prevailing wisdom.Even after the dot-com boom has gone bust, Bronfman, the billionaire president of the World Jewish Congress, still believes the Internet will help save

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the Jewish people.

Bronfman remains so confident about the power and reach of technology that he and fellow philanthropist Lynn Schusterman, of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, are putting more than $2 million into a new Jewish supersite called MyJewishLearning.com.

“I think this may be the most important gift I’ve ever given the Jewish world,� Bronfman says.

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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20050201Basedonchildside.html

 

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (JTA) — A new concept in the fight against world hunger emerged from a conversation between two young Jewish girls.Five years ago at a supermarket in Newton, Mass., Hallel and Aliza Abramowitz were searching for a jar of tomato sauce featuring Paul Newman’s face, because the kosher

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brand was the kind their family used.

Hallel, then 4, asked her sister what made the sauce kosher. Aliza, then 6, answered — innocently but inaccurately — that a kosher company gives its earnings to charity.

Hallel’s response combined a child’s innocence and wisdom: Why don’t all companies do the same thing? she asked.

That got their father — Yosef Abramowitz, CEO of the online Jewish educational source Jewish Family and Life! — thinking.

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