Features
Israel: the most vegans per capita
Ben Sales, JTAOct 23, 2014
TEL AVIV The music pounded, the liquor flowed, dancers filled the floor and khinkali meat dumplings and kababi skewers staples of traditional Georgian cuisines ...
Jerusalem’s light rail merges past, future
IJN StaffOct 20, 2014
JERUSALEM is arguably the worlds most complex city. It is a place of sanctity for three faiths; a site of antiquity; home to a diverse population; and capital of a...
Stitching history from the Holocaust
JTAOct 12, 2014
WASHINGTON Was the Jewish lady tailor who ran a Prague dressmaking shop a potential Nazi spy? The Roosevelt administration apparently thought so. The Jewish...
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...
Is a lunar eclipse on Sukkot an ominous sign?
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAOct 06, 2014
LOS ANGELES As we usher in Sukkot, will there be a blood moon rising? John Hagee, the San Antonio pastor who wrote the book Four Blood Moons: Something is […]
South African anti-apartheid activist argues for Israel
Andrea JacobsOct 02, 2014
Benjamin Pogrund, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a muffin in the other, surveys the empty computer room at Holiday Inn Cherry Creek. He nods. “I think...
Why fast on Yom Kippur?
Deborah Fineblum, JNSOct 02, 2014
By Deborah Fineblum, JNS HERUT Shitrid vividly recalls the first Yom Kippur she fasted. She was only 10, but somehow she was able to make it through the whole day....
Museum for Human Rights stirs controversy with larger focus on Holocaust
Josh Tapper, JTASep 29, 2014
TORONTO On the fourth floor of the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights, visitors will find a gallery called Examining the Holocaust, which is devoted entirely to...
NCJW passionate about defeating human trafficking
Chris LeppekSep 19, 2014
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION SECTION A PAGE 12 Open your eyes – you’ll see it. It happens in shopping malls, at highway rest areas, on streets and sidewalks, at truck stops...
Shofar makes house calls
Edmon J. Rodman, JTASep 19, 2014
ROSH HASHANAH EDITIONSECTION D PAGE 13 LOS ANGELES In preparation for the High Holidays last year, my community sent its shofar blower on the road. During the month...
