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BE'CHOL LASHON UPDATES

Be'chol Lashon Update February 2008

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IDENTITY

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UPCOMING EVENTS


Be'chol Lashon Update March 2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS

COMMUNITY EVENTS

CURRENT NEWS

IDENTITY

COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

ARTS + CULTURE


Be'chol Lashon Update February 2007

February 2007 PDF

UPCOMING EVENTS

EVENTS-SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

· Y-Love Performance
· Mixed and Jewish Panel
· Ethiopian Cooking Class
· Support Groups for Adopted Children
· JCC Maccabi Games Tryouts

Los Angeles

· Purim in 18 Languages

CURRENT NEWS

· Temple Professor Works to Create Center on Afro-Jewish History
· Study: Adoptive Parents Get High Marks
· Brazil's Leader: Holocaust Must Never Be Denied

IDENTITY

· Black and Jewish
· Converting on Their Own Terms
· Bond of Friendship

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

· In Cuba, Finding a Tiny Corner of Jewish Life
· In Caribbean, Conversion Offers a Lifeline for Small Communities
· The Lost Tribe of New Mexico

BOOKS & FILM

· A Mosaic of Israel's Traditions: Unity through Diversity
· My Mexican Shiva
· The Searchers


Be'chol Lashon Update January 2007

January 2007 PDF

UPCOMING EVENTS

EVENTS-SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

· True Colors, PACT Workshop
· Breaking Through the Myth of Jewish Whiteness
· A Sephardic Evening at the Commonwealth Club
· Family Day at The Contemporary Jewish Museum

CURRENT NEWS

· Ethiopian Israelis Provide Training for Rwandan Youth Village
· Uruguayan Jews Feud Following Controversial Community Election
· Leading French Jew Comes Out Strong for Presidential Hopeful

IDENTITY

· Museum Exhibit Shoots Down Jewish Stereotypes
· Our Braided Heritage
· Finding My India

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

· Chile's Jews Part of the Larger Community in Santiago
· Ghetto: A Contribution of Italian Jewry to Everyday Discourse
· Roman Jewish Cuisine
· Internet Allows Iranian Jews to Mourn

ARTS & CULTURE

· A Young Actor's Exodus Across Time and Space
· Persian Gates
· Mizrahi Pop with a Religious Twist, Barak Cohen
· Brazilian Rhythms, Elisete


Be'chol Lashon Update December 2006

December 2006 PDF

UPCOMING EVENTS AND COMMUNITY UPDATE

EVENTS-NEW YORK
· The New York City Council Celebrates Hanukah with the Indian Jewish Community
· 2nd Annual Sephardic Music Festival

UPDATES
· Feliz Januca from Lorca's Medieval Synagogue

SPECIAL CHANUKAH SUPPLEMENT

· Have a Feliz Chanukah at Multicultural Holiday Fiesta
· Hanukah Lights in Portugal to Burn Publicly for the First Time in 500 Years
· Exotic Latke Recipes for Celebrating All Eight Days of Hanukkah

CURRENT NEWS

· Intermarriage Tipping Point Long Past, but Institutions Must Now Catch Up
· Israel Teaches WHO about Circumcision
· Conservative Panel Votes to Permit Gay Rabbis

IDENTITY

· Deconstructing the Asian Jewish Experience
· Latino New Mexicans See Hints of Jewish Past
· Networking Site Changing Face of Jewish Campus Life

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

· The Zimbabwean People of the Book
· Castro Can't Make It, but Jews in Cuba Mark 100 Years on Island
· Ethiopians Celebrate Jerusalem, Giving of the Torah

ARTS & CULTURE

· Mamma Mia! That's a Chanukah
· Jewish UCLA Ballplayer Shoots for the NBA
· Preaching Peace and Love, Armed with Just a Guitar


Be'chol Lashon Update November 2006

November 2006 PDF

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAN FRANCISCO
Celebrate Jewish Diversity this Chanukah with Be’chol Lashon

CURRENT NEWS

Tearing Down the Stereotypes Via Film, Art
Is It The Lost Tribe of Israel?
Israel Seeks To Raise Profile of African Aid

IDENTITY

Jewish Moms, Chinese Daughters
A Conspicuous Family
Baghdad Blues

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

Unique Ways Chanukah is Celebrated Worldwide
Amazon Rabbi’s Gravesite Becomes Pilgrimage Place for Local Christians
Centuries of Jewish life/Jamaica’s Jewish Community marks 350 years

ARTS & CULTURE

Funny, She Doesn’t Look Jewish
Cooking Defines Sephardic Jews at Sukkot
The Last Jews of Baghdad

BOOKS REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Jewish Tales: Key to Chinese Success
Greek Tragedy: Two New Books Offer a Window Into the History of Salonica’s Jewish Community
Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews


Be'chol Lashon Update October 2006

October 2006 PDF

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAN FRANCISCO
· The Asian American Jewish Experience
· Shooting Water, Jews in India

PHILADELPHIA
· Screening of “The Journey of Vaan Nguyen”

CURRENT NEWS

· JIMENA Pushes for Rights in Congress
· Hispanic Jews to Combat Anti-Semitism in Media
· Venezuela's Jews Fear Anti-Semitism

IDENTITY

· Los Judios Nuevos: The Plight of the Anusim
· Krauthammer's Law: Everyone is Jewish Until Proven Otherwise
· A Mother Adopts, and Discovers Her Own Racism

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

· Spanish Kids Learn Jewish Heritage by Baking Matzah – in September
· In China, a Growing Interest in All Things Jewish
· Israel Will Soon Welcome From India Descendants of a “Lost” Jewish Tribe

PRESERVING JEWISH HERITAGE

· Panama: New Life Along the Canal
· In Egypt, Remnant Carries on Rich Fabric of Jewish Tradition
· The Last Three Jews of Qamishli

ARTS & CULTURE

· Vietnamese Israeli Family Takes a Long Trip 'Home'
· One Rapper Who Can't Seem to Blend In
· From Bollywood to the Sands of Jerusalem


Special Holiday Edition- 5767

· Fasting Has a Way of Humbling the Self
· Re-kindling the Flame of New Year: Recounting a Lemba Tradition
· Here's Just the Ticket for Observing High Holy Days
· New Year, New Dumpling
· Jewish Group Helps Moms Outside Faith

Be'chol Lashon Update September 2006

September 2006 PDF

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAN FRANCISCO
· To Life! A Jewish Cultural Street Festival - Palo Alto
· Rock ‘n' Rebuild

NEW YORK
· Indian Jewish Community of New York Announces High Holiday Services

BE'CHOL LASHON UPDATES

· Ethiopian Jews' Panel Touches Questions of Race, Religion
· Indian Jewish Congregation Takes Part in Israeli Day Parade for the First Time
· Not Even War can Stop SF attendees of WorldPride in Jerusalem

CURRENT NEWS

· Breaking Through Adoption's Racial Barriers
· Iranian Jews in US Grapple with Crisis
· AIDS Meeting Spotlight on Circumcision Despite Promising Research, it may be “Trouble” to Adopt

IDENTITY

· The Woman who gave me Strength
· A Being British for 350 years
· From Tehran to Tinseltown

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

· How far to go for Kosher Pastrami? Finally a Palatable Answer in Prague
· The Man who couldn't be Buried and Other Stories of Brazil's Jews
· The Lost Jews

ARTS & CULTURE

· Debut Puts Ethiopian-Israeli Filmmaker on the Map
· Breaking the Sound Barrier
· News Kids on the Block

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Be'chol Lashon Update August 2006

· Be'chol Lashon congratulates Rabbi Sholomo and Rabbinet Rayah Levy on the birth of their son Levi Yosef
· Funny, You Don't Look Jewish by Davi Cheng
· Congratulations to Michelle Stein-Evers Frankl

CURRENT NEWS

· First Ethiopian Executive Slated for Confirmation
· Owens Goes to Bat for Russian Jews
· Children Adopted from China to Visit as Government Guests

IDENTITY

· Dual Identity, Double the Questions
· Waiting Outside the Promised Land
· The Whole Story on Being Half-Jewish

JEWISH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

· Houston, We Have an Ethiopian Representative
· Kosher Curry Expansion
· Shalom Bombay
· Once Thriving Jewish community in Suriname is Struggling
· A Balkan Revival: Jewish Culture Looks to the Young

ARTS & CULTURE

· 15 People Who Make America Great
  The Artist: Aaron Dworkin, Sphinx Organization

· Psalm-Thing to Sing About in New Album
· Black Eyed Peas' Zionist Message

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Be'chol Lashon Update July 2006

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAN FRANCISCO
· Be'chol Lashon presents: “Sisai" An Ethiopian Israeli documentary

  Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Saturday, July 29, 2006

NEW YORK
· New York's Best Emerging Jewish Artists: Vanessa Hidary

  Wednesday, July 19, 7 P.M.

CURRENT NEWS

· U.S. Rabbis Stand Up To Chief Rabbinate
· Ghana soccer player waves Israeli flag to celebrate World Cup goal
· Lawmakers Hail Inclusion of Israeli Branch Of Red Cross Into   
  International Organization

IDENTITY

· Professor Sholomo Levy chooses field of study close to home
· The Challenge of Being Me
· Awareness Growing, Local Rabbi Says

COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD

· Jews who fled Arab countries take campaign to European Union
· Unrest spurs Venezuelan Jews' interest in aliya
· For Indian Jews, birthright gives glimpse of life as majority group

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Be'chol Lashon Update 11/1/05

Events:

The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography
Photography Exhibit: A Journey to the Jewish Communities of Morocco & North Africa

Recent Articles:

New Book: U.S. Jewish Community is Far More Diverse than Most Realize
U.S. Jewish Ethnic Diversity Great
200 Bnei Menashe in India Convert to Judaism
Rocking the Cradle: A Midlife Conversion Story
Rabbi Meets a Different Kind of Need on Campus: Conversions
Riding the Persian Carpet to Fame: A Generation of Young Iranian Jews Takes a Stab at Showbiz
Ancient Language Comes Alive for Iranian Jews in Today's L.A.
At World JCC Conference, Officials Seek Solutions to Common Problems
From a Village in China To the Wedding Canopy in Jerusalem
Jew in Chinese: Group Says a New Word is Needed for Jews
Texas Crypto-Jews Return to Judaism
Imagining Life as A Black Woman In the Bible
Race and Relations in Zadie Smith's New Novel

Be'chol Lashon Update 9/12/05

Urgent:

Events:

Recent Articles:

Reuben Greenberg: Hail to the Chief
Carolivia Herron: Finding Answers in Judaism District Author-educator Celebrates Dual Identities
Carlos Diaz: Mitzvot in Mexico
JJ Keki: The "Mirembe Kawomera" Multi-faith Coffee Project
Ephraim Isaac: Yemenite Jews accepted as Peace Bridges by NY Arabs
Iraqi Jews to Demand Compensation for Billions in Lost Assets
A New Museum for Ethiopian Jews
Despite Cabinet pledge, Aliyah of Falash Mura Still Moving Slowly
Groups host weekend in Argentina for needy, unaffiliated Jewish families
In Brazil, Gay and Lesbian Jews Struggle for Jewish Acceptance
Building Mikvahs in India for Bnei Menashe
What the Chinese Discovered about Tefilin
A Jew Named Christopher
`Who is a Jew' at the Maccabiah Games
Debunking the Concept of 'Race'

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Be'chol Lashon Update 7/11/05

Featured Articles:

International Israelite Board of Rabbis
Argentinean Jewish Heritage
Donations from Argentine Jews to Local Jewish Charities on the Rise
Faith in the Wilderness
Dry And Earthy
South African Cookbook to Tell Story of Country's Jews
In Bolivia, Unrest Expected to Increase Jewish Emigration
Nicaragua, Long a Beef Exporter, Examines Lucrative Kosher Market
Dr. Pedro Nuno de Sousa Mendes, Son of Righteous Gentile Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Passes Away in Portugal
New Jewish Agency Chief Bielski will Reach Out to Non-Orthodox in Diaspora
Jewish Groups Launch Campaign for Rights of Refugees from Arab World
Conservatives, Rainbow Coalition
Legal Riff Ends; Web Site Hails Jewish Rockers
North American Muslim Learns About Tolerance in Israel

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Be'chol Lashon Update 6/25/05

Featured Articles:

Campaign launched for Tegegne's transplant in Israel
UJC moves to raise $160 million for Falash Mura and Jews in FSU
Israel Bar Association promotes hiring Ethiopian law students
Americans Seek Connection to God Without Religion
Jews in danger of becoming ‘The Amish of the 22nd century'
We need converts
Memorable Sephardic cantors put on remarkable concert at home of Cantor Louis Danto's Ashkenazi musical library
Documentary Looks at Brazilians Rediscovering their Jewish Roots
Moves on files, 1938 ruling show that Argentina is confronting past
At OSCE meeting, Spain Stresses the Positive, Glosses over Negative
Direct line to Portugal
A Jewish Wedding in Mogador: The Illuminated Ketuba from Mogador
In Curacao, dwindling community maintains oldest synagogue in west
Abdulaziz Mulogala: We have been taking care of this [Jewish] cemetery for over 100 years
First Bnei Menashe Community Center in Israel Opens
Greek Jewish Community Opposes Neo-Nazi Conference
For Linguistics Scholar in Taiwan, Yiddish is More than Just Shtick
A Cultural Exchange — of Vows: Couples of different ethnicities and faiths uphold wedding traditions by blending them

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Be'chol Lashon Update 5/26/05

Featured Articles:

Montreal Jew Battles for Kidney Donation
Falash Mura Tab Listed
Ethiopian Aliya Cap Threatened
Israel Honors Ethiopian Dead
Their Homes May Be Far Away – But Their Hearts Are in Israel
A Question of Identity: Iberian Conversos in Historical Perspective
Recife Jewish Community Shrinks but Fights to Keep Its School Open
A Priest Embraces His Hidden Jewish Roots
Bearing The Unbearable
Crosses, Crescents and Stars
Survey: Children of Intermarriage Identify as Jews Some of the Time
Campus Groups Hold Multicultural Shabbat: Coach Speaks on Israel Team Experience

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Be'chol Lashon Update 4/29/05

Featured Articles:

Youth Is Served for an Aging Congregation
Philosophy's Gordon Takes Race Study to New Level
Onion-lashing Seder with the last Jew in Afghanistan
Ethiopian Jews in New York Share their Ancient Tradition
Kosher Gospel Rocks the House at Seder Celebrating Jewish Diversity
Channeling and Updating Bubbe, Cook Recreates Passover Memories (Garosa Charoset From Curacao)
Bnei Menashe Find Home Over Green Line
After Years of Improvisation, Jews in Costa Rica are Now Turning Kosher
After 500 Years: Kosher Portuguese Olive Oil
Two Can Tango: Arabs and Jews Play Argentina's Music Together
Oy Vey, Soy Gay': Gay Jews in Argentina Form Support Groups
Memories of Moisesville
Israelis Introduce Touch-typing to Arab World

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Be'chol Lashon Update 4/8/05

Featured Articles:

In Every Tongue: A Story of Eternity
The Afro-Semitic Experience Program
Pope's Will Points to Future Ties with Jews-Rabbi
Group Helps Brazilian Jews Find Jobs, Health Care and Self-respect
Crypto-Jews Gather to Recall a Forgotten Jewish Hero
High Court in Israel Accepts Some Non-Orthodox Conversions
Adopted Children Face Conversion Problems
Jewish America's Changing Faces
Discovering Jewish Roots on Caribbean Soil
Rabbinate Recognizes B'nei Menashe as “Descendants of Israel”
Mass Bar Mitzvah Held At Western Wall For Ethiopian Jews
Montreal Ethiopian Jew Battles for Kidney Donation
New Chief Rabbi Eager to Regroup SA Flock

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Be'chol Lashon Update 3/25/05

Featured Articles:

The Forgotten Refugees
The Vanishing Jews of the Arab World
Oral History Project Illuminates Turkey's Forgotten Jewish Past
Israel at Heart Teaches Students About Unity
Singing for Survival: Argentines Bring Vibrant Worship to Reform Biennial
Troubadour of a Lost Sound: Professor Brings her Sephardic Expertise to Music Fest
China Liberalizes — and in Comes Isaac Bashevis Singer
Israeli Doctor Declares War on AIDS in Africa
Jewish Groups Find Going Tough as they Work to Pressure Sudan
Africans Say their Story, too, Excluded from Middle East Studies
Book Review: Let's Talk about Race By Julius Lester

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Be'chol Lashon Update 3/2/05

Featured Articles:

The Color Of Inclusion
A Tribe of Many Colors
The Contra Costa Jewish Film Festival
The Face Of Jewish Uganda
Letter from India
The Conversion's The Thing
The Star Who Rose from the Mean Streets
Taipei's Jewish Community Has Deep Roots
Bnei Anousim to Pray with Portuguese Jews
The Sundance Yid
Youth Torn Between Two Worlds of Rap

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Be'chol Lashon Update 1/12/05

Featured Articles:

As Extent of Tragedy Emerges, Jews Pitch in for Tsunami Victims
JDC Announces Initial Allocation of Funds to Support South Asia Tsunami Victims
The U.N's Politics of Humanitarianism
African Shoah Lives in ‘Hotel Rwanda'
Top Rabbis and Imams Meet as Partners for Peace
Israel's Military Reaches Out to Minority Groups
Knesset Urges Raising Quota for Ethiopian Jews
Aliya of the East Wind
A Conversation with Julia Schulman, Mother of Two Daughters Adopted from China
Jewish Outreach in Peru
1,000 'Birthright' Alumni Now Live in Israel
DRC: Aid Starts to Reach the War-displaced in North Kivu
Can Africa Solve African Problems?

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Be'chol Lashon Update 12/17/04

Featured Articles:

Israel wins Two of the top Three awards for Technology Innovation in 2004 from the Wall Street Journal
Professor Xu Xin's Lecture Tour 2005 for January and February
Won Ton or Kreplach? How We Raise Children in Our Chinese-Jewish Family
Proud "Jewpanese" Americans
Bene Israel Jews from India: Images in Art from Siona Benjamin
Jewish Stories for a Lost Tribe of Israel
Rabbi in Tijuana?
Broward County sees a growing wave of Hispanic Jews
Brazil's Anousim Get a Rabbi
DNA Clears the Fog Over Latino Links to Judaism in New Mexico
Long Spiritual Journey Comes Home
Ethiopian Jew Shares Music and Heritage in America
Bring the Falash Mura Home to Israel
Israeli Government to High Court: Only Orthodox Conversions Count

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Be'chol Lashon Update 11/22/04

Featured Articles:

5th Annual Bay Area Be'chol Lashon Chanukah Celebration
An Ethiopian Jewish Chanukah Party
Sounds Better in Amharic
IsraelExperts - Free Trip to Israel with Birthright Israel
New Book: Lives of Secret Jews & Other Heretics, by Richard Kag
Update on Current Activities of "Shavei Israel" (Formerly Amishav)
There's More than Just a Canal: Panama's Jews Active, Observant
Rabbis Grapple with Inclusion of Non-Jewish Relatives in Shuls
Future of Interfaith: New Program Head Has Firsthand Experience
New Book: The Israelis: Q & A with Donna Rosenthal
Hispanics Debate Census Plan to Change Racial Grouping
Dutch Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh Murdered
Arab Liberals Petition the U.N. to Establish an International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Terrorists
Profile: Condoleezza Rice

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Be'chol Lashon Update 11/1/04

Featured Articles:

Growing up in a LGBT Family: A Teen Perspective
All in the Family: Bay Area Jewish Parents Accept Joys, Struggles of Interracial Adoption
Three Denominations Sizzle in San Juan
Tostones and Matzoh: A Puerto Rican-Jewish Journey
Seek and Save
Status of Falash Mura Children Debated
Chief Rabbi Issues New Rules on Conversion on the Sly
Interfaith, Interracial, Intercultural.... and Loving It!
Identifying with Israel's Suffering, Native Americans Visit Jewish State

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Be'chol Lashon Update 10/12/04

Featured Articles:

Time for a New God
I-Pride Conference, Expo & Gala Celebration
A Shabbat Dinner at the Manhattan JCC!
Eye on Future, French Group Works for Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands
Out of Africa
Presbyterians Stand by Divestment Despite Dialogue with Incensed Jews
Gay Rabbi in New York Gives Sermon on Rosh Hashanah - Synagogue Loosing Support
American Jewish World Service Sudan Update
‘African-American' Becomes a Term for Debate
Alice's Literary Wonderland


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Be'chol Lashon Update 9/24/04

Featured Articles:

Author James McBride Speaking in Philadelphia
The Shofar
One of a Special People
Crypto-Jews Come Out of the Closet
The Ethiopian Experience
An Absorbing Matter
A Home for Jews in China
No More Deadlines for Sudan

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Be'chol Lashon Update 9/09/04

Featured Articles:

Africans to Protest MASS MURDER in Sudan at UN Plaza on 9-12
Shana Tova from the Be'chol Lashon Community
Find a High Holiday Service with No Membership Required
The 2004 Parliament of World's Religions: A Report from Dr. Ephraim Isaac and Rabbi Capers Funnye
Young Jerusalemites Experience Ethiopian Jewish Culture
Harlem's Ethiopian Renaissance
Sometimes Fun, Often Frustrating, Ulpans Unite Multiethnic Immigrants
New Book: Lodz Ghetto Album Photographs by Henryk Ross
8th International Latino Film Festival
Gays Forging Creative Paths to Parenthood

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Be'chol Lashon Update 8/30/04

Featured Articles:

Blessing Bella
Peering Into the Hidden World of Crypto-Jews
Spanish Crypto-Jews Show Solidarity With Israel
Berkeley Survivor Donates her Slave-labor Compensation to Aid Sudanese Refugees
Interfaith ‘Day of Conscience' calls for intervention in Sudan
Congratulations all Around, as Country Swells with Pride
Israel's Black Hebrews are Selling White Substance to Middle-class Homes, but No One's Complaining
One Love: Meet Matisyahu
Behind Every Rocket is a Story

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Be'chol Lashon Update 7/27/04

Featured Articles:

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Sheba Film Festival
Call for Papers: Yemenite Jewish Women
A Community's First Bar and Bat Mitzvah Since 1958
Alive and Well: Jews in a Sun-drenched Portuguese Town
Argentine Jews Struggling with Money Problems and Security Fears
10 Years after Panama Airline Bomb, Jews are Pained by Lack of Suspects
Ethiopian Unemployment Down
South Africans of all Religions Unite to Protect Circumcision

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Be'chol Lashon Update 7/12/04

Featured Articles:

The Dream
Help Grow the Jewish Lending Library in Nigeria
Update about Anousim Rufina Bernardetti Silva Mausenbaum
Anousim Gathering and Lecture in Texas
Book Review: Scattered Among the Peoples
Mexican Jews Demand an End to Wave of Kidnappings…
The Call to the Torah, Now Heeded Online
As Syria Frets Under Sanctions, Syrian Jews Help Build Ties to U.S.
Annan Presses UN On Anti-Semitism
Stir the Pot: Admit 'Descendants' and Foreigners
Jewish Groups Step up Efforts to Stop Crisis Developing in Sudan
David Brody, ADL Lobbyist, Fought for Civil Rights and Against Boycott
Controlling China: The U.S. Congress Should not Fund State-mandated Abortions

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Be'chol Lashon Update 6/28/04

Featured Articles:

Shahanna McKinney- Baldon & William Baldon's Baby has Arrived!
Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Moves to Marquette Park
Needed A Conversation Policy
How Wen-Jing Became ‘Shalva': Chinese Jewish Descendant Returns to Judaism
An Update on Past IAEJ Conferences and Workshops
Lenny Kravitz to Star in Barbecues and Bar Mitzvahs
US Christian Leader: Israel Should Reach Out to African-Americans
My Big Fat Interfaith Lesbian Wedding
Abarbanel's Commentary Released in Spanish
From the Silence of a Prison Cell in Uruguay
Fifty Years Later, Services Held to Honor Diplomat who Saved Jews
Dare We Call it Genocide?
Jewish Groups Step Up Efforts To Help Sudanese
In Congo, a Peace (of sorts) has Finally Settled in Nervously But a Raging HIVEpidemic Continues Unabated
Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?

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Be'chol Lashon Update 6/16/04

Featured Articles:

Rabbi Spurs Growth of Black Jewish Group
Ethiopian Pupils get Helping Hand in Celebrating their Bat Mitzvah
Hebrew Israelite Youths Gear Up for Draft
When Temple Isaiah Installed Theodore Truruoka as Full-time Rabbi...
A Place to Call their Own: Brookline Congregation Moves into New Home
In a First, Orthodox Shul Hires Woman to Rule on Certain Jewish Legal Issues
Once Considered an Oriental Sound, Mizrahi Music Now Pervades Mainstream
Danger Signs in Nation of Singles
Ex-chief Rabbi Bakshi-Doron End to Orthodox Monopoly over Marriages
Reviving Jewish Life in Southern Spain
Depoliticize Outreach
Journals of 2 Ex-Slaves Draw Vivid Portraits
Remaking Iraq Without Guns

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Be'chol Lashon Update 6/1/04

Featured Articles:

The American Jewish World Service Relief Fund
Diversity rules at one-of-a-kind Shavuot festival
Right-wing Initiative Targets 'Lost Jews'
Bene Israel Rabbi Returns to Indian Community
Israeli court rules for some converts
Salvaging Jewish Heritage in China, Block by Block
Autograph Man: A Novel about Growing Up with a Jewish Mother and a Chinese Father
Growing Up Asian in America : Pass the Soy Sauce
B'nai Mitzvah for Ethiopian Immigrants Born During Operation Solomon
Chief Rabbinate Releases Ethiopian Music CD
Letter from Baghdad: Remnants of Babylonian Jewry Endure Tyranny of the Majority
Outreach to African, Asian Jews is music to rabbi's ears
Anousim Returnees - Endorsement of CRC Av Beth Din
Wondering How to Reach Young Jews? Online Venture Opts to Try a Magazine
Beyond what Cosby said
Long after World War II, black battalion gets its due
Gay Marriage: Is it a Fights for Equal Rights or the End of a Moral Society?
Remembering Armenia
Micro-credit Brings Macro-benefits
Vatican-sponsored interfaith conference
Facing deadline for constitution, E.U. debates Christian reference

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Be'chol Lashon Update 5/20/04

Featured Articles:

3rd Annual Bay Area Be'chol Lashon Spring Event: MultiCultural Shavuot Festival
Black Jews Find New Home in Marquette Park
Lenny Kravitz's Feature Film about his Black-Jewish Roots
Israel's Tallest Ambassador
Changes Slow to Come for Liberal Latin Congregations
Starting at the Post Office, Guide Gives Tours of Jewish Mexico City
Reform Movement's Latin American Convention in Brazil
Israel's Independence Day in Rio de Janeiro
Mexican Museum of Art to Exhibit Jewish Art
Texts on Judaism Will be Distributed to Buenos Aires High School
Funny, You Don't Look Jewish
New Israeli Film in Tribeca Film Festival
France Tries to Diffuse anti-Semitism and Racism Over the Internet
Book Release: Kinesthetic Kabbalah: Spiritual Practices from Martial Arts and Jewish Mysticism
Two Jewish Sites were Nominated for Best Spirituality Web Site
American Jewish Orthodox Group Prepared to Work with Same-sex Couples to Continue Government Funding
Black Students at Cal Irked by Lack of Diversity
50 Years After Integration Case, Jews Remember their Crucial Role

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Be'chol Lashon Update 4/27/04

Featured Articles:

Book: African American Lives
Groups Question Own Inaction on African Killings
Genocide and Conscience
Shades of Black and Shadows on the Life of a Writer
A Torah Goes to India Where a `Lost Tribe' Awaits
New Jewish Educational Center for the Bnei Menashe of India
An Orphan no More - Foster Kid Finds Mom
Raising Our Jewish Children: An Adoption Conference
For Spain's Jews, a Tense Time after Bombings and Terrorist Plots
Sephardi Faithful Seek the Miraculous
Jewish Philanthropist Funds Writing Contest to Improve Christian-Jewish Relation

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