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There’s much to celebrate this weekend: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding! Shavuot! The return of allergy season! Ok, maybe not that last one. For the first two items, the Forward has your needs covered: Check out our complete guide to Shavuot, including a surprising number of entries about the holiday’s connection to marijuana,…
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Breaking News Stephen Arnoff Named Head of JCC Umbrella Group
Stephen Hazan Arnoff has been named the new chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Center Association. Arnoff succeeds Alan Finkelstein, who announced last year he would retire from the position after more than two decades. Arnoff will take up the position in February. The Jewish Community Center Association board of directors unanimously approved the…
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Food When Composting Comes To NYC’s Jewish Community
Compost is a touchy subject. As anyone who’s collected food scraps in her kitchen can tell you, some people see a container full of cucumber peels and egg shells as a step toward sustainability, while others smell a stench. Last week, New Yorkers filed into each of these categories — and a few in between…
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Food Turning the Community on To Composting
Garbage in New York City is transported to landfills outside of the state. Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey all have landfills full of our old clothes, packaging, contents of our last closet purge, and lots of food waste. This last one is the most unfortunate, because food was meant to compost back into the earth…
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Food Start with the Silverware: The Jewish Greening Fellowship
When President Obama spoke about climate change in his inaugural speech, it was a small victory for the hard working members of environmental organizations everywhere to finally hear that their agenda was being acknowledged on a large scale. One of these hardworking individuals is Mirele Goldsmith, the director of the Jewish Greening Fellowship (JGF), a…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Third-Generation Holocaust Literature; Whither the Israel Philharmonic?
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