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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Tech firm’s outage on Yom Kippur eve leaves synagogues scrambling to stream services

Tech firm’s outage on Yom Kippur eve leaves synagogues scrambling to stream services

By Ben HarrisPublished September 30, 2020

(JTA) — Minutes before Rabbi Howard Jaffe was due to start streaming Yom Kippur services to his Reform congregation in suburban Boston on Sunday evening, he received an urgent phone call from the synagogue’s associate rabbi. The synagogue website,...

McCain: Withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq could ‘risk catastrophe’

BY BEN HARRISPublished December 15, 2006

NEW YORK -- Steering clear of the Iraq Study Group's controversial recommendation to engage the Arab-Israeli issue to win support for U.S. efforts in Iraq, John McCain made an emphatic case for American steadfastness in Iraq during an address to a Jewish...

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