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Dan Klein, JTA

Three Jewish TV stations struggling

NEW YORK — It is a strange irony: Jews have been successful in the television business — but Jewish TV, not so much. It’s not for lack of trying. Right […]

Jewish resurgence in Detroit

DETROIT — Blair Nosan grew up in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, attended the University of Michigan and then, like thousands of other young Jews from the...

Presbyterians going back to divestment from Israel

NEW YORK —— A decision by a group within the Presbyterian Church USA to reintroduce a resolution calling for divestment from companies doing business with Israel is...

Shalit takes case to free his son Gilad to the UN

By NEW YORK —— Noam Shalit, the father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, wants his son’s plight to be part of the discussion of Palestinian statehood at the...

Joe Lieberman rests not on laurels, but on Shabbat

WASHINGTON — Call Joe Lieberman the unlikely evangelist. The Independent senator from Connecticut — and the best-known Orthodox Jew in American politics — is probably...

San Francisco Court cuts bris ban

SAN FRANCISCO —— A state Superior Court judge in California ruled that a proposal to ban circumcision for minors must be struck from San Francisco’s November...

New federation CEOs bring more outside, less inside experience

NEW YORK — A generational changing of the guard throughout North America’s largest Jewish charitable network is opening the door to new chief executives increasingly...

New York, Houston reeling from tragedy

NEW YORK —– The two tragedies occurred 1,500 miles apart and in much different circumstances, but both united a community in shock, horror and grief. In New York, the...