Marc Tracy
By Marc Tracy
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Israel News Celebrating Independence ‘Jewish Style’
Taking a page from the Shavuot playbook — when Jews commemorate the giving of the Torah by staying up all night to study it — a group of Philadelphia Jews is planning to spend the evening of July 3 studying the country’s founding documents: “America’s Torah.” “We’re studying the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,…
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Israel News Kicker Gives Adopted Home a Nod
Though Israel is not among the 32 countries competing in the World Cup, Israeli soccer has not gone completely unrepresented at the quadrennial showdown now being contested in Germany. Today, Ghana’s John Paintsil is playing for his native land, but under normal circumstances he plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv. And so, when it came time…
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Israel News Jewish Reggae 101
Rapper Matisyahu already has ridden his unique blend of dancehall reggae and Lubavitch Hasidism to the top of the charts. Come this summer, his music will head somewhere new: a college classroom. In July, students at New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson University will be able to decode the singer’s biblically inspired rhymes and rhythms in a…
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Israel News Subway Pulls Into New (Kosher) Station
The restaurant chain Subway prides itself on serving fast food that’s good for you. But now, for the first time, one of its sandwich shops is answering to a higher authority. The world’s first kosher Subway has opened at a Cleveland JCC, the Mandel Jewish Community Center — and the man who ultimately made it…
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