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The Jewish Press of Tampa and the Jewish Press of Pinellas County are Independently- owned biweekly Jewish community newspapers published in cooperation with and supported by the Tampa JCC & Federation and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas & Pasco Counties, respectively

 
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April 16, 2010  RSS feed
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Kaczynski leaves legacy of Polish-Jewish reconciliation
PRAGUE — For Jews, Poland’s late president, Lech Kaczynski, was a man of many firsts. He was the first Polish president to attend a service at a Polish synagogue, the first to celebrate Chanukah at the presidential palace, the first Polish leader to provide support for a Jewish history museum on Polish soil. More...
JLI offers course on lessons of the Holocaust

The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), the adult education arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, is offering a six-session course on lessons of the Holocaust entitled “Beyond Never Again.” The series, timed to coincide with Yom HaShoahm Holocaust Remembrance Day, will be taught for six consecutive weeks at Tampa Bay area Chabad centers beginning the week of April 25. More...

ADL drops opposition after provisions for prayer at school events removed
By Robert Gren Jewish Press

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has dropped its opposition to Florida House Bill 31 after language that would have allowed prayers at some public school events was cut from the legislation. More...

ADL receives FBI Community Leadership Award

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) honored the Florida Region of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with the FBI 2009 Director’s Community Leadership Award on March 19 during a special ceremony at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. honoring ADL nationally. More...

Tampa filmmaker is making documentary on pre-Israel freedom fighters
By ELAINE MARKOWITZ Jewish Press

As a small child growing up in Israel, Leora Chai had fantasies unlike that of many small girls — she dreamed of spies. Not comic book or movie spies, but real Jewish ones — the Freedom Fighters of Nili. More...

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