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Last week, I blogged about the closing of the Ziv Tzedakah Fund. Today I received this letter from their Israel ...

Jewish Year in Review: 2007

The year that might have mattered.

Unwilling Audiences

It takes a great deal of courage to leave what is comfortable and enter the wilderness.

Ziv Tzedakah Fund to Close

For more than 25 years, Danny Siegel, aka the Mitzvah Man, has been distributing money to little-known tzedakah projects primarily ...

Sell the Matzah, Keep the Hametz

Still looking for a holiday gift? Got $25 million just laying around? The Streit’s Matzo factory, prime real estate located ...

The Torah’s Accessibility

The Torah was given early on--available to anyone who seeks it.

Most Inspiring Person of 2007

Beliefnet has been polling its readers for a little while now, trying to decide on the most inspiring person of ...

Synagogues & Rabbis

-When an interfaith center building is owned in part by a Messianic Jewish organization, should a rabbi agree to officiate ...

Basketball and the Jews

A street game goes professional.

Jews & Sports: Premodern History

Throughout Jewish history until the rise of the Zionist movement, Jews have harbored negative attitudes toward sports, often with good reason.

Israeli Sports

Moving into the international arena.

Jews & Sports on the International Scene

The history of Jews in Europe and the early Zionist movement show ample examples of the convergence of sports and Judaism. By Michael Brenner

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