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President Joe Biden declared climate change has become “everybody’s crisis” on Tuesday as he toured neighborhoods flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, warning it’s time for America to get
Arab security prisoners rioted and set fires in seven cells in Israeli prisons on Wednesday in protest of new restrictions in the wake of the escape of six highly dangerous
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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times It is the first point that everyone joins in when the Chazan repeats the Shmoneh Esreh. In the Shmoneh Esreh
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