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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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August 13, 2010  RSS feed
World News
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Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding raises questions about intermarriage
NEW YORK — Is it possible that the first iconic Jewish picture of the decade is of an interfaith marriage? Photographs taken on Saturday show the Jewish groom wearing a yarmulke and a crumpled tallit staring into the eyes of his giddy bride under a traditional chuppah with a framed ketubah, a Jewish wedding contract, in the background. More...
CNN’s Zakaria returns ADL award over mosque controversy

(JTA) — CNN host Fareed Zakaria has returned an award to the Anti-Defamation League due to the group’s opposition to building a mosque near Ground Zero. Zakaria, also a Newsweek columnist, had received the Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize in 2005. More...

Russia refusing to return rebbe’s library despite U.S. court ruling

(JTA) — Russia has refused to return a library of sacred documents to the Chabad- Lubavitch movement. More...

Will the Giving Pledge affect Jewish causes?
By JACOB BERKMAN JTA news service

NEW YORK — The philanthropic world got a happy jolt when 40 members of the world’s wealthy elite — including 13 Jews— announced that they would give away more than half their money before they died. More...

Fire at concentration camp destroys Shoah victims’ shoes

(JTA) — A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp has destroyed a barracks and thousands of prisoners’ shoes displayed on the site. The cause of the Aug. 13 fire is believed to be an electrical fault. Majdanek, where the Nazis killed more than 360,000 people, is located in southeastern Poland. More...

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