(Washington Jewish Week) — With all of the many issues confronting the state of Israel – the Iranian nuclear threat, the challenges of renewing meaningful peace talks with the Palestinians, the increasing social divisions in Israeli society,...
NEW YORK (JTA) – Four weeks ago, JTA reported on a new alliance between Jewish leaders and domestic gas and oil companies. Called the Council for a Secure America, the alliance is based on...
The Yom Hashoah Community-Wide Holocaust Memorial event held this past Sunday night at the Uptown JCC was another spectacularly planned and extremely well executed program. The Yom Hashoah Memorial Committee composed of Holocaust survivors, children of survivors, community leaders and...
As we mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on April 8 for the 60th consecutive year — this somber day was first placed onto the Jewish calendar in 1953, at the instigation of Israel’s first Prime Minister,...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — One act, more than any other, is indispensible from the Passover story: If God had not intervened, we would still be slaves. There would have been no Exodus, no Sinai, no...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Probably no more than the top 10 percent of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews will ever shop at Pomegranate, the luxury kosher supermarket recently featured by The New York Times columnist David Brooks in a...
In recent weeks word has come down of the departure of two of the Jewish community’s great leaders. Deena Gerber, who has been the executive director of Jewish Family Service and its attendant organizations like Teen Life Counts, has indicated she...
NEW YORK (JTA) — As of 2012, one in 20 Americans is identifying themselves as an atheist, agnostic or unbeliever. According to the research done by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released last...
