Friday, May 25, 2012
Arthur Stern, inventor, activist and philanthropist dies at 87
By JewishJournal
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Obama’s same-sex marriage nod echoes historic Catholic-Jewish debate
by Ben Sales, JTA
When President Obama publicly endorsed same-sex marriage two weeks ago, most secular Jewish leaders applauded while some religious ones disagreed --. . .
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The Six Day War and a trip to the museum
by Abraham Rabinovich
Dr. Avraham Biran, director of Israel’s Department of Antiquities, received a call early on the second day of the war from the wife of Yigael. . .
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Revisiting the Six-Day War, 45 years later
By Tom Tugend
Tuesday June 5 marks the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War, turning point in Israeli history that, in the popular recollection, brought the new. . .
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Israel will solve African migrant problem, Netanyahu assures
JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decried violence against African migrants following a night of violent protest.. . .
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Man in custody implicated himself in Etan Patz’ disappearance
JTA
Police in New York say they have man in custody who has implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Anne Frank, in her family’s eyes
By Jonathan Kirsch
Anne Frank, the single most famous name among the six million victims of the Shoah, entered the realm of history and literature with the posthumous. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Romney to meet with Jewish donors
JTA
Mitt Romney is meeting with about 30 major Jewish donors to his presidential campaign as part of a "constituents day.". . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Haredi politician’s failure to shake hands riles female Belgian minister
JTA
Belgium’s health minister said she was “profoundly troubled” by the behavior of her Israeli counterpart, Yaakov Litzman, after the haredi. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
One-minute video calls for moment of silence at Olympics [VIDEO]
JTA
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has created a one-minute video in the campaign to have the Munich 11 remembered at this summer's Olympic. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Rabbi Akiva’s gift to a ghost
by Rabbi Ed Feinstein
“You shall teach your children diligently” (Deuteronomy 6:7). Rabbi Akiba traveled from town to town in Israel, teaching the Torah, judging. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The philanthropist
By Rob Eshman
Eli Broad’s new book is called “The Art of Being Unreasonable.”. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Beinart's 1% crisis
By David Suissa
One of the more brazen initiatives in the Jewish world today is Peter Beinart’s call, in his book “The Crisis of Zionism,” to boycott anything. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Maarat Ayin: Eduardo Saverin’s decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship
by Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan
By now everyone has heard that Eduardo Saverin, one of the co-founders of Facebook, filed legal papers in September 2011 to formally renounce his. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Alexander T.
by Seth Menachem
Alex wrote to me asking why I didn’t have any gay single peeps on my site. I told him I do — “you should take another look” — and then. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Survivor: Jack Seror
By Jane Ulman
Jack Seror didn’t know what to do. He was 25 and knew he had to leave Salonika; it wasn’t safe for Jews. And now a contact from the Greek. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Shavuot – Torah for everyone
By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
My daughter, Dina, accepted a summer job here in Los Angeles last year. Before being hired, she explained that she was an observant Jew who would. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Calif.‘s oldest female vet, 102, reaches out with compassion
By Jane Ulman
This Memorial Day, World War II Veteran Bea Abrams Cohen will be attending ceremonies at Los Angeles National Cemetery, paying tribute to all the men. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Documentary traces changes in kibbutz life
By Tom Tugend
Back in the 1930s and ’40s, when Diaspora Jews desperately needed a symbol of Jewish strength and pride, the brawny, sunburned kibbutznik became. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Giving as a fountain of youth
By Rachel Heller
Al Azus has found his fountain of youth, and he’s not keeping it a secret. In fact, the 92-year-old philanthropist recently published a memoir. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The Torah of our lives: On writing the next chapter
By Rabbi Laura Geller
“Boomers [people born between 1946 and 1964] are the first generation in human history … to reasonably anticipate living well and wholesomely. . .
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Bibi stalls bills legalizing Ulpana
JTA
Two bills that would have legalized an outlying neighborhood of a West Bank settlement, bypassing a Supreme Court decision, were stalled in the. . .
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Pacquiao to visit Israel, says his Jewish promoter Bob Arum
JTA
Manny Pacquiao, the World Boxing Organization welterweight champion, will visit Israel, his Jewish promoter Bob Arum said.. . .
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
For haredi Orthodox, Internet threat harkens back to the Enlightenment
by Ben Sales, JTA
To the outside observer, the Charedi Orthodox anti-Internet rally at New York’s Citi Field may have looked uniform: a single mass of black hats,. . .
