Election roundup: Jewish souls, Jewish rabbis, Jewish vote, Jewish legislators

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on September 4, 2012

Jewish researchers dispute some Pew religion survey data

By Sue Fishkoff
Published on February 28, 2008

American Jews are adopting and discarding their Jewish identities with increasing rapidity in a country that is becoming less white and less Christian, according to a new study of religious affiliation in the United States.But just hours after the study's publication Monday, Jewish demographers already were disputing some of the findings on Jews, contending that the sample is too small to draw meaningful conclusions.

On Second Thought

By Joshua Metzger
Published on September 27, 2007

This week, I will sit on my porch, gaze at the pergola and see in its place a bamboo mat. I will remind myself of the biblical commandment, "in a sukkah you shall sit seven days."

Saluting Jewish World War II Vets

By Gaby Wenig
Published on December 4, 2003

Approximately 550,000 Jewish Americans served in the armed forces during World War II, about 4.23 percent of the total number of troops. Both Roosevelt and General Douglas MacArthur praised their bravery specifically. During the war, 52,000 Jewish soldiers received an award or decoration of some kind and 11,000 were killed.

Now, close to 60 years after World War II, veterans of the conflict have aged and their numbers are dwindling, but despite current ambivalence toward American war-like nature, America's participation in World War II and relative success in making the world "safe for democracy" is never questioned.

A magazine with attitude

By Michael Aushenker
Published on January 31, 2002

She's young, sexy, defiant and Jewish. And now, journalist Jennifer Bleyer has created a magazine that is ... well, young, sexy, defiant and Jewish.

Rabbi Lau Headlines at O.U. Conference

By Gaby Wenig
Published on December 27, 2001

Urging religious dialogue as a means to achieve peace, Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau, the chief rabbi of Israel, addressed a crowd of 500 at the West Coast convention of the Orthodox Union Dec. 20.