By Shlomo Cesana, JTA World News Service During his term as Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren found himself faced with a rapidly changing America, a Middle East on fire, and an Israel that had to deftly navigate between the seismic changes taking place in both locations. But looking atContinue Reading
By , JNS.org JNS.org — President Barack Obama said Tuesday night that if Syria were to attack Israel as retaliation for an American military strike on Syria, Israel would be able to defend itself with “overwhelming force” and “unshakable” U.S. support. Obama said Tuesday in a nationally televised address that heContinue Reading
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By , JTNews Correspondent The following is the speech made by President Obama on the ongoing Syrian conflict: THE PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria—why it matters, and where we go from here. Over the past two years, what began as aContinue Reading
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—Pro-Israel officials rolled their eyes this week in response to the opposing spins about their support for President Obama’s drive to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad for his purported use of chemical weapons against his own people. Some suggested that once again, theContinue Reading
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By Orli Santo, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—For years, Rina Deych was treated like she was crazy. Fighting the Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot, she was told things had always been this way and if she kept up the battle, she would only incite anti-Semitism. Year after year, peopleContinue Reading
By Rob Eshman, other LOS ANGELES (Jewish Journal)—I started building my sukkah in December. To those of you who are sukkah DIYers, you know how ridiculous this sounds. A sukkah is the ritual hut that Jews build each year on the holiday of Sukkot, which begins this year on the eveningContinue Reading
By , JTA World News Service (JTA) — The head of the Jewish Federation in Vancouver and the Canadian city’s transit agency are at odds over the legality of an ad campaign critical of Israel running on buses there. The ads, which went up Tuesday, purport to show the “disappearance ofContinue Reading
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By Talia Lavin, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — Last Saturday, two weeks after Ethan Kadish’s 13th birthday, the members of his family gathered around a Torah scroll in the chapel of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for a small ceremony marking his entrance into adulthood. This was not the BarContinue Reading
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By Rabbi Jack Riemer, JNS.org Let the general reader be warned: Shaul Magid’s new book, “American Post-Judaism,” is not easy to read. The writing is dense, and the argument is complex. But the book is worth the effort, for it deals with the reality of American Jewish life with realism andContinue Reading
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By Ben Cohen, JNS.org Not for the first time, events elsewhere in the Middle East—the renewed bloodshed in Egypt and Israel’s decision to release 104 Palestinian terrorists because of American pressure—have pushed the Syrian civil war out of the limelight. But in the limelight is where it belongs. Given that weContinue Reading
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