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Michele Alperin

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Garden State and Jewish state share a table on food innovation
Michele Alperin28.10.2015
On Sept. 18 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., Member of Knesset Erel Margalit (front, third from left) and incoming Tel-Hai College president Yossi Mekori (front, second from left) sign a memo of understanding to establish the New Jersey-Israel Healthy, Functional and Medical Foods Alliance between Rutgers and Tel-Hai. Credit: Ron Sachs.
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‘Jewish Food Movement’ comes of age
Michele Alperin21.12.2014
Click photo to download. Caption: Staff and participants of the Adamah Jewish farming program wash the harvest in Falls Village, Conn., in 2010. Credit: Courtesy of Hazon.
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From nursing home to stay at home: Jewish organizations try to shift senior living
Michele Alperin28.05.2014
Click photo to download. Caption: Community members make a toast at the St. Louis NORC ( Naturally Occurring Retirement Community). A group of Jewish federations started NORC communities in response to a federal initiative to develop replicable models to deal with the coming increase in the senior population. Credit: St. Louis NORC.
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Infusing meaning into the Passover seder
Michele Alperin13.02.2014
Click photo to download. Caption: Rabbi Arthur Waskow's original "Freedom Seder" in 1969. Credit: Courtesy Rabbi Arthur Waskow.
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Kosherfest 2013 reflects growing demand for healthy alternatives
Michele Alperin05.11.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: A Kosherfest 2013 vendor speaks with an attendee about Aviva Organic Petit Beurre Biscuits, which Aviva Organic describes as "delicious healthy cookies made of whole wheat flour, a great healthy treat for children & adult." On the table are whole grain spelt crackers from Landau Kosher. Credit: Kosherfest.
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For Iraqi Jewish Archive, road to exhibition and return paved with questions
Michele Alperin08.10.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: Before treatment by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Passover haggadah from 1902 recovered from the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s Intelligence Headquarters. The haggadah is part of what has become known as the Iraqi Jewish Archive. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
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SIDEBAR: Seeking a ‘meaningful rite of passage’
Michele Alperin13.03.2012
Click photo to download. Caption: Sally Gottesman. Credit: Courtesy of Sally Gottesman.
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The evolution of the bat mitzvah
Michele Alperin13.03.2012
Click photo to download. Caption: Judith Kaplan Eisenstein at the 70th anniversary of her bat mitzvah, 1992. Credit: Archives, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
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Vice prime minister: ‘Iranian regime should be confronted by the West’
Michele Alperin30.01.2012
Click photo to download. Caption: Moshe Ya'alon, now Israel's vice prime minister and former IDF chief of staff, presents an award of excellence to an Israeli naval officer. Credit: IDF Spokesperon.
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With Iran in mind, Babi Yar remembered as ‘evil at its worst’
Michele Alperin30.01.2012
Click photo to download. Caption: The keynote speakers at the UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day event Jan. 25. Credit: Shahar Azran.
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Debriefing the Israeli Social Protests
Michele Alperin13.12.2011
Click photo to download. Caption: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) is accompanied by Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg (far right), who headed the Trajtenberg Committee Report on social changes, on his way to a cabinet meeting on Oct. 3, 2011. Credit: EPA/JIM HOLLANDER/POOL.
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