Lamm, 85, ends tenure at YU
Uriel Heilman, JTAJul 04, 2013
NEW YORK In his letter announcing he was stepping down as Yeshiva Universitys chancellor and rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Norman Lamm reviewed his five decades teaching at...
Claims Conference fraud case widens
Uriel Heilman, JTAMay 23, 2013
NEW YORK The Claims Conference in recent days has blamed a now-dead regional director for bungling an early warning in 2001 about a massive fraud scheme that wasnt...
What’s next for Venezuela’s Jews after Chavez?
Uriel Heilman, JTAMar 07, 2013
CARACAS For more than a decade, Venezuelan Jews have been holding their breath, subject to the whims of a mercurial president who used his bully pulpit to intimidate,...
Operation Pillar of Defense: Lessons learned
Uriel Heilman, JTANov 22, 2012
AS Israel and Hamas mostly stilled their guns Wednesday night after reaching a cease-fire agreement, ending eight days of intense bombardment, both sides took home some...
Would Rice as VP choice undercut GOP’s Israel argument?
Uriel Heilman, JTAJul 19, 2012
NEW YORK For the past four years, Jewish conservatives have been working hard to paint President Obama as too willing to press Israel on Palestinian issues. But the...
Steven Schwager: (Pre)-exit interview
Uriel Heilman, JTAMay 17, 2012
NEW YORK Steven Schwager, the CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, is stepping down from the helm of the JDC on June 30. One of American Jewrys...
No surprise, Putin wins: now what?
Uriel Heilman, JTAMar 08, 2012
MOSCOW With Vladimir Putins re-election as president of Russia a foregone conclusion, the question facing Russia was never what would result from last weekends...
Atlantan suggests assassination
Uriel Heilman, JTAJan 26, 2012
NEW YORK When news outlets began reporting Jan. 20 that the owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times had published an opinion column seemingly suggesting that Israel might...
Where do Israeli haredim stand on violence?
Uriel Heilman, JTAJan 05, 2012
JERUSALEM The cascade of condemnations started pouring in almost as soon as the Israeli TV report aired. Its subject was an eight-year-old girl harassed by haredi...
Can Reform Jews be conservative? Report from the biennial
Uriel Heilman, JTADec 22, 2011
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Its not easy being a political conservative in the most liberal of Jewish religious denominations. Just ask the 40 or so people among the more...
