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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
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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...
USF gets donation for Judaics library
By DANIEL FEINGOLD Jewish Press

The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation in New York City has donated $5,000 to create a Judaics reference library at the University of South Florida, Tampa campus. More...

Fire 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...

CNN’s Zakaria returns ADL award over mosque

(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...

Rubashkin lawyers accuse judge with conflict of interest

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Lawyers for former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin accused the presiding judge in the case of a conflict of interest, filing papers demanding a retrial and her recusal. More...

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