Intermountain Jewish News
Saturday,
Jan 28th
Rising tide of Jewish family foundations
TO give to federation, or to give to foundation. That is the question. Or is it? With sincere apologies to the Bard, it cannot be denied that within the world of Jewish philanthropy, it certainly is a question that has been asked a great deal of l... Read more...Gerald Kopel, 1928-2012
There’s a lot that we’re going to miss about Gerald Kopel, the journalist-turned polit...
Atlantan suggests assassination
NEW YORK – When news outlets began reporting Jan. 20 that the owner of the Atlanta Jewis...What they didn’t tell me on my Bar Mitzvah
This week is “my Bar Mitzvah parasha.” In my experience, many adults think back to tha...
Is she Israeli? Filipino? Legal? Illegal?
TEL AVIV — With eyes closed, it would have been difficult to guess that the female voice...
Jewish day schools putting Apple iPads to the test
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — Toward the end of his life, Apple’s visionary leader, Steve J...
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JTA News
Conference of Presidents meets Pollard
Leaders of the Conference of Presidents met with convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard....
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Obama pledges to combat denial on Holocaust commemoration day
President Barack Obama pledged to combat Holocaust denial in a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day....
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Barak calls for tougher sanctions on Iran
Ehud Barak called for intensified sanctions on Iran at the World Economic Forum in Davos....
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Romney, Gingrich blame Palestinians for lack of peace
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich put the blame for the impasse in Middle East peace talks squarely on the Palestinians....
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Auschwitz Jewish center honored by Austrian ambassador
The Auschwitz Jewish Center received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for its work to educate youth about the Nazi genocide of European Jewry....
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Orthodox groups protest federal decision on contraception
Two Orthodox groups protested the Obama administration’s decision to require some religiously affiliated institutions to cover contraception as part of their employee health plans....
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House GOPers urge Obama to enforce Iran sanctions
A mostly Republican slate of 89 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Obama urging him to fully enforce sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank....
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Palestinian has sentence reduced in rape by deception case
Israel's Supreme Court reduced the sentence of a Palestinian man convicted of rape by deception for posing as a Jew....
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