By Jeanette Friedman , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — The director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust puts into print the question on everyone’s lips when the survivors were liberated from Nazi Germany in Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust,Continue Reading
By Daniel Hemel , JTA News & Features OXFORD, England (JTA) – Long before Larry Craig pleaded guilty to “disorderly conduct,” American Jewish groups harbored serious doubts about the Idaho Republican. In June 1990, when Craig, then a congressman, was running for an open Senate seat, The Jerusalem Post bemoanedContinue Reading
By Ami Eden , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman would have stood on much stronger intellectual ground had he simply sent the following notice to the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times, the usual address for high-powered wedding announcements:Continue Reading
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach , JTA News & Features Noah Feldman was a brilliant, Orthodox Jewish Rhodes scholar who arrived in Oxford in 1992 in my fourth year as rabbi at the university. He and I quickly hit it off. For one thing, there was scarcely a subject — JewishContinue Reading
By Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg , Special to JTNews The customs we observe on the day of Tisha B’Av are strikingly similar to those of an avel, a mourner, one whose close relative has recently passed away. We abstain from washing ourselves, putting on perfume, and wearing leather shoes. Instead, weContinue Reading
By Gidi Grinstein , JTA News & Features TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Hamas coup in Gaza may seem like a victory for Iran and its followers, who now have a foothold on Israel’s doorstep. But if Israel plays its cards wisely, it may turn things around. Since the 1979Continue Reading
By Daniel Pipes , Special to JTNews The Hamas victory over Fatah in Gaza on June 14 has great importance for Palestinians, for the Islamist movement, and for the United States. It has rather less significance for Israel. Tensions between Fatah and Hamas are likely to endure and with them,Continue Reading
By Rabbi Avi Shafran , JTA News & Features The U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has elicited the usual cries of protest from abortion rights advocates and, also as usual, they include an assortment of Jewish groups and The New York Times. That latterContinue Reading
By Phyllis Snyder , JTA News & Features The Supreme Court has made it clear that ideology trumps women’s health in the nation’s highest court. On April 18, the Supreme Court made it clear that respect for legal precedent is dead, clear that Roe v. Wade’s protections are no longerContinue Reading
By Rabbi Or N. Rose , JTA News & Features In October 2006, at a meeting of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur, an active member of the volunteer organization shared some disturbing news with the group. Retired businessman Eric Cohen said he had learned recently that the Boston-based mutualContinue Reading
By Rabbi Rob Toren , Samis Foundation Jewish continuity. This was and in many respects still is the buzz phrase occupying Jewish leaders in North America. This crisis started with the Jewish population study of 1990 where it was “discovered” — and this was a surprise? — that the intermarriageContinue Reading
By Tammy Kaiser , Special to JTNews As Jews living in the 21st century, we are well aware of the importance of physical safety. Alarm systems, locks, security guards and emergency drills are becoming increasingly necessary. In addition to taking reasonable precautions to ensure the physical safety of our JewishContinue Reading
By Rabbi Moshe Kletenik , Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath Congregation My Name Is Rachel Corrie presents a one-sided, simplistic view of a very complex issue. Rachel Corrie’s death was a tragic accident that occurred when an Israeli bulldozer was engaged in an antiterrorist operation, after she was placed in harm’sContinue Reading
By Rabbi Daniel A. Weiner and Skip Kotkins, President , Temple De Hirsch Sinai As many people know, this month the Seattle Repertory Theater is staging My Name is Rachel Corrie, a play originally produced by the British actor Alan Rickman. The play is taken from the writings of RachelContinue Reading
By Steven M. Cohen , JTA Columnist NEW YORK (JTA) — Not many years ago, it was taken as axiomatic that intermarriage constitutes a significant threat to Jewish continuity. For individual families, we understood that more often than not, the children of the intermarried would be raised as non-Jews. AndContinue Reading
By Mindee Nodvin , Special to JTNews Growing up in a traditional Atlanta Jewish family and having been blessed with a strong Jewish education, my role as an active member of the Jewish community is something I value deeply. I am drawn to organizations and causes that reflect the coreContinue Reading
By Randi M. Abrams , Special to JTNews We Jews are a scrappy lot. This year marks the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first Jews on the shores of colonial America seeking freedom from religious persecution in Brazil in 1654. And with those Jews, also came the firstContinue Reading
By Bill Block , Special to JTNews I take great pride in the Seattle Jewish community’s commitment to tikkun olam, the obligation to make the world a better place. From aiding the homeless to feeding the hungry, to helping those with HIV/AIDS, the Jewish community can be counted on toContinue Reading
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