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Sivan 4, 5771 · June 6, 2011
By Tamar Runyan
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Exactly 70 years after the Soviets closed his
great-grandfather's school
in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Shneur Zalman Futerfas married Yehudis
Kaminetzky, daughter of the city's celebrated chief rabbi, in front of
one of the city's flourishing Jewish schools.
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South African Jews recently welcomed a new arrival to the
synagogue in Johannesburg's Hyde Park suburb, greeting the "immigrant"
from Israel with joyous singing, dancing and a lavish meal.
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Just three months after inaugurating the Australian capital's
first Jewish ritual bath,
the local Jewish community is celebrating a new milestone: the
purchase of a disused childcare center to house the city's first Jewish
preschool.
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Teaching Torah to inmates is like polishing the "diamond in the
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rabbinical students who spent a week studying and praying with Jewish
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