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December 15, 20140

Female rabbis at forefront of pioneering prayer communities

By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A decade ago in Los Angeles, two organizations opened their doors with a call to praye

December 11, 20140

Op-Ed: Ferguson and Eric Garner are symptoms of a deeper problem

By Suzanne Feinspan, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- I sat down last week to write about what happened in Ferguson. As I began to write,

December 10, 20140

What will New Republic exodus mean for American Jewish thought?

By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service (JTA) -- Last week's departure of most of the editorial team at The New Republic -- including Franklin Foe

December 10, 20140

Knife attack at Chabad headquarters in New York raises security questions

By Steve Lipman, The Jewish Week NEW YORK (The Jewish Week via JTA) -- Just three weeks after terrorists killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem syn

December 10, 20140

To security officials, Chabad attack underscores importance of preparedness

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The stabbing of a rabbinical student at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York underscores three things that Jewish securit

December 9, 20140

Israeli student stabbed at Chabad’s N.Y. headquarters, assailant shot dead

(JTA) — An Israeli man studying for the rabbinate in New York was stabbed while praying at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn. Levi Ro

November 28, 20140

Jewish groups call for civil discussion on race following Ferguson decision

(JTA) -- Jewish groups called for civil and serious discussion about race, democracy and justice in the wake of the grand jury's decision in fatal s

November 28, 20140

Rabbis condemn N.J. Rabbi Steven Pruzansky’s anti-Arab rhetoric

NEW YORK (JTA) – A growing chorus of Orthodox leaders are speaking out against the anti-Arab rhetoric of a prominent New Jersey rabbi, Steven Pruzansk

November 25, 20140

Extreme views on Arabs don’t inhibit Orthodox embrace of Rabbi Pruzansky

By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – If Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Teaneck, N.J., had his way, Arab rioters and stone throwers

November 20, 20140

Op-Ed: Stop reckless sponsorship of anti-Israelism

By Sara K. Greenberg CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA) -- I never imagined that a day would come when some of the world’s leading corporations would fund call

November 19, 20140

UCLA student government votes to divest from Israel

(JNS.org) The undergraduate student government at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) voted to divest from American companies that do busines

November 14, 20140

Hasidic family charged in $20 million fraud case

NEW YORK (JTA) — More than a dozen members of a prominent Satmar Hasidic family in New York were charged with lying to obtain $20 million in mortgages

November 14, 20140

Portland Jewish community shaken by murder-suicide

(JTA) — A murder-suicide in Portland, Ore., has left two Jewish day school students orphaned. Portland police said that Ian Elias, 47, killed his e

November 14, 20140

Youth hockey coach fired for posting Nazi propaganda on Facebook

VANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) -- A youth hockey coach in suburban Vancouver was fired for posting Nazi propaganda on social media. Christopher Maximilian

November 7, 20140

White House aide Jonathan Greenblatt to succeed Abe Foxman as ADL chief

By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – The Anti-Defamation League’s new national director will be social entrepreneur Jonathan G

October 29, 20140

Ebola: Hitting the snooze button on a wakeup call

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now epidemic, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologis

October 22, 20140

Op-Ed: Rabbis bearing witness in Ferguson

By Michael Adam Latz, JTA World News Service MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) -- Early last week, national faith leaders called rabbis, pastors, priests and imams

October 9, 20140

Conversion to Judaism: denomination by denomination

By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (This is part of a special report on conversion in America. Read our other pieces about who's converting t

October 9, 20140

So you want to convert to Judaism…

By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service I understand you’re considering converting to Judaism. Shalom aleichem! What sort of conversion would y

October 2, 20140

Lowey: Federally funded college programs must not have anti-Israel bias

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee asked the U.S. Department of Education to insure that college programs re

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