Refusal to "Give" a "Get" Leads to Protest
Yesterday's New York Times contained the story of one agunah (a woman who is refused a Jewish divorce) in the US. In Israel, where there...
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Make a difference in the life of an elementary school student
Calling all Mentors! JFS' academic after-school programs, The All Stars (3rd & 4th graders) and The Wizards (5th grade girls) are looking for volunteer mentors. ...
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SAVE THE DATE! TELEM Organizing is part of an ACTION!
On May 23rd at 5:00PM at Temple Israel Boston, TELEM teens from Y MORE (Youth of Massachusetts Organizing for a Reformed Economy) will return to...
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Red Sox-Yankees Tickets Fundraiser
Gann Academy has added two Red Sox-Yankees tickets to its online auction. For the 5th year Gann is traveling to New Orleans to help those...
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Baking to Give Back: A Unique Story of Two Women's Paralleled Personal Lives
Melissa Roiter and Jacqui Goldberg lead very busy lives. Both are mothers with young families and three children (each have sets of multiples), both have...
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5 year old asks for donations for JFS's holiday collection drive in lieu of birthday gifts
Five year old Hannah Moreau had a birthday party the other weekend. Instead of gifts, she asked her party guests to bring a pair of...
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White Ribbon Day 2012: Be an Upstander
Posted by Casey Corcoran Much progress has been made in the movement to end violence against women, yet we still have a very long way...
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Thank You Whole Foods!
BIG THANKS to Whole Foods Market Bellingham for dedicating a 5% day to JFS! For those unfamiliar with Whole Foods 5% day, they are...
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Modern Day “Maccabees” Wanted for a Chanukah Miracle
Second Temple, Jerusalem: 2 century BCE: Judah, Leader of the Maccabees, announced today, that the oil in the lamp that should have only lasted one night...
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Mikietz 5771 Imprisoned Part 2 from 12/4/10
<!--StartFragment--> As I think about Soviet Jews, their experience is like a modern Hanukkah. In the Hanukkah story, the Jewish people were denied their freedom to...
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