Murder in Argentina?
Uriel Heilman, JTAJan 22, 2015
BUENOS AIRES The mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman seems ripped straight out of a crime thriller. Nisman the indefatigable prosecutor...
Pomegranate juice a vehicle for chasidic help and healing
Uriel Heilman, JTAJan 15, 2015
NEW SQUARE, NY Get Rabbi Shulim Greenberg talking about the health benefits of pomegranate juice and he sounds like a homeopathic nutritionist with a Yiddish...
USY kills ban on interfaith dating
Uriel Heilman, JTADec 31, 2014
NEW YORK United Synagogue Youth voted to relax its rules barring its teenage board members from dating non-Jews. The amendment was adopted Dec. 22 in Atlanta at the...
Cuba: 50 painful years vs. a better future
Uriel Heilman, JTADec 24, 2014
NEW YORK For many Cuban Jews the majority of whom now live in the US it has been a bittersweet week. Like countless Jews around the world, […]
Rabbi’s extreme views on Arabs find mixed reception
Uriel Heilman, JTANov 28, 2014
NEW YORK If Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Teaneck, NJ, had his way, Arab rioters and stone throwers would be shot with live ammunition. Arabs would be barred from the...
RCA to review conversion system
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 30, 2014
NEW YORK Tzipporah Laura LaFianza and her family have been living as Orthodox Jews for four years now. They reside in a heavily Jewish suburb of Washington, go to...
Converts say Freundel went well beyond peeping
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 23, 2014
NEW YORK When Rabbi Barry Freundel asked Bethany Mandel to take a really long shower before a practice dunk in the mikveh prior to her formal conversion to...
Who requires what for conversion?
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 08, 2014
ORTHODOX Number of converts: Unknown. Over the last seven years, approximately 1,275 conversions have been certified by conversion courts affiliated with the Rabbinical...
Pointing fingers at the United Nations
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 02, 2014
NEW YORK In the end, there was much to talk about at the UN General Assembly but few genuine surprises. With an eye on the jihadist group ISIS, President […]
Not all is well in US-Israel relations
Uriel Heilman, JTASep 04, 2014
JERUSALEM Not all is well in the US-Israel relationship. Somehow, the 50 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas frayed ties between Washington and Jerusalem. How...
