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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-chicagoans-play-santa-for-students-at-school-named-for-zionist-leader/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2017/12/IMG_4326-1-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Temple Beth Israel&#039;s director of congregational learning Lori Sagarin (fourth from left), Theodore Herzl School principal Tamara Davis (fifth from left) and others beneath Theodor Herzl portrait donated to school by Herzl collector David Matlow, Chicago, December 18, 2017. (Courtesy)" title="Temple Beth Israel&#039;s director of congregational learning Lori Sagarin (fourth from left), Theodore Herzl School principal Tamara Davis (fifth from left) and others beneath Theodor Herzl portrait donated to school by Herzl collector David Matlow, Chicago, December 18, 2017. (Courtesy)" /></a>
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													<div class="date">December 24, 2017, 1:51 pm</div>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-chicagoans-play-santa-for-students-at-school-named-for-zionist-leader/">Three synagogues team up to donate $10,000 worth of Christmas gifts to kids at the Herzl School of Excellence </a>
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							By <a title="Renee Ghert-Zand" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/renee-ghert-zand/">Renee Ghert-Zand</a>						</div>
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							By <a title="Chaim Steinmetz" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/chaim-steinmetz/">Chaim Steinmetz</a>						</div>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-halls-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-hebrew/">A national network of secular, bilingual immersion schools plans to open its 10th branch next year in South Brooklyn -- and the student body is surprisingly diverse</a>
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							By <a title="Cathryn J. Prince" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/cathryn-j-prince/">Cathryn J. Prince</a>						</div>
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								Bible placed alongside &#8217;50 Shades of Grey&#8217; on &#8216;challenged&#8217; book list							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/bible-placed-alongside-50-shades-of-grey-on-challenged-book-list/">Criticized for sex, violence and legal issues, the Good Book makes top ten of tomes objected to by different groups</a>
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								In first, New York City schools close for Muslim holiday							</a>
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								Pine Bush schools settle anti-Semitic lawsuit for $4.5 million							</a>
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