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SpaceIL co-founders, from left, Kfir Damari, Yonatan Weintraub and Yariv Bash insert a time capsule into their spacecraft. (Courtesy of SpaceIL)
If this mission is successful, it would be the first time any private spacecraft landed on the moon, at lower cost and with a smaller craft than previous landings.
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Marjory Stoneman High School student Cameron Kasky addresses area students at a rally at the school after participating in a countywide school walkout in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 21, 2018. (Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images)
They organized marches, created nonprofits and worked for gun control amid their grieving.
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Noah Solomon (right) and Rabbi Naftali Citron sing Hasidic melodies at the closing of a conference on Kabbalah at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan on Jan. 27. (Ben Sales)
“The function in Kabbalah is to take two things which have been separated and reunify them,” Reuven Kimelman said. “The one flesh is not something new. It’s the restoration of the original unity. So every sexual act is an act of restoring an original unity.”
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Sara Lee and Bimbo bread products are displayed together in a Chicago store in 2010. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Bimbo Bakeries USA was set to remove kosher certification from major bread labels like Arnold and Sara Lee this year, but will no longer be doing so.
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Former Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner, left, shown with Fran Drescher and the Forward’s CEO and publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen, was honored at a Forward’s anniversary gala at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, Nov. 13, 2017. (Jerry Lacay)
According to the attached minutes of a November 2008 board meeting, the venerable Jewish newspaper, “The Forward,” could have used a little divine intervention.
Read MoreThe Forward will be ending its print run more than 120 years after it began publication in 1897. It will continue to exist online in English and Yiddish.
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The Steinsaltz Humash includes a mix of translation and commentary, as well as illustrations, drawings, maps and photos. (Ben Sales)
In 2009, Koren Publishers Jerusalem, an Israeli label, published a competing Hebrew-English prayer book with commentary by Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom. Now another prayer book has entered the fray.
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Sara Lee and Bimbo bread products are displayed together in a Chicago store in 2010. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Bimbo Bakeries USA will be removing the certification. The company produces brands including Arnold, Sara Lee, Stroehmann, Freihofer’s and others.
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Rick Rosenthal is a professional, year-round Santa who also attends Congregation Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta. (Courtesy of Rosenthal)
Santa Rick’s last name is Rosenthal, and he’s an Orthodox Jew who does not drive or handle money on Shabbat. But that doesn’t stop him from doing his job.
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Rabbi David Ingber conducts a class in March 2016 at Romemu, the Jewish Renewal congregation in New York that is opening a yeshiva next year. (Scott Osman)
Most Jewish religious schools begin the day with a traditional morning prayer. After that, students spend much of their time studying Talmud, the central text of Jewish law.
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Jess Salomon, left, and Eman El-Husseini are seen at an Upright Citizens Brigade show in New York City. (Jenni Walkowiak)
Not many two-person comedy acts can credibly say they are a lesbian Palestinian-Jewish married couple.
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