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Maharat Ruth Friedman with the manager of Khepra's Raw Food Juice Bar, a vegan restaurant she and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld recently certified kosher. (Courtesy of Friedman)
For more than a decade, D.C. had only one kosher restaurant. Eli’s, a meat deli that opened in 2003, shut its doors a decade later. The same owner opened Char Bar, also with a meat-centric menu, at the beginning of the following year.
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David Ben-Gurion, who was to become Israel's first prime minister, reads the new nation's Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv, May 14, 1948. (Zoltan Kluger/Israeli Government Press Office via Getty Images)
By the time Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, American Jews, scarred by images of the Holocaust and Nazism and inspired by newsreels of tanned kibbutzniks, were largely supportive of Zionism.
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It costs Pomegranate, a gourmet kosher supermarket in Brooklyn, $75,000 every year to clean its kitchen for Passover. (Courtesy of Pomegranate)
If you thought your Passover prep was hard, you’ve got nothing on the managers of Jewish supermarkets.
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Baron Guy de Rothschild speaking during a press conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Rothschild Brothers Bank, watched by Baron Elie de Rothschild, left, and Baron Alain de Rothschild, right, April 26, 1967. (Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The Rothschild family is historically Jewish and famously wealthy. They do not control the weather. Or the U.S. government.
Read MoreStephen Colbert joined Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the oldest justice on the high court, in what is her normal exercise routine.
Read MoreDaniel Bruhl has been cast as a Nazi, or a civil servant under the Nazis, or a supervillain from a Nazi family, in at least five films.
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Louis Farrakhan speaking at a news conference at the Mosque Maryam in Chicago, March 31, 2011. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
What’s drawing scrutiny is why Louis Farrakhan, after years of denunciations by groups like the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center, is still accepted by mainstream public figures.
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Ilan Cohen says it was a "very easy process" to get on the ballot in Kansas even though he is not legally allowed to vote. (Courtesy of Cohen)
Visit CohenForKansas.com, and you will see an honest-to-goodness campaign site complete with a biography, links to media coverage (including, um, Wikipedia) and an inspiring photo of corn.
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Lavan's cohort of 25 fellows is examining the intersection between impact investing and Judaism. (Courtesy of Lavan)
A growing number of activists are promoting a Jewish take on impact investing, which means investing in businesses that also promote a social good.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wife Sara attending the inauguration ceremony for the new emergency ward at the Barzilay Hospital in Ashkelon, Feb. 20, 2018. (Flash90)
Whether this is the beginning of the end of the Bibi Netanyahu era, or just the latest challenge to a seasoned political survivor, is the hot topic in Israel.
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Americans are still reeling from the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol unleashed four years ago by President-elect Trump and his supporters. (File photo)
Jews in and around the nation’s capital do plenty of Jewish things. Many of them just don’t do those things as members of Jewish institutions.
That’s one of the main takeaways from a wide-ranging survey of Washington, D.C.-area Jews published this week by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.
