Features
Into the future — issues in Holocaust remembrance
Andrea JacobsOct 31, 2013
Dr. Stephen Smith — born near England’s mythical Sherwood Forest and the son of a Methodist minister — visited Yad Vashem for the first time with his brother James...
New discoveries of JFK’s admiration for and support of American Jews
IJN StaffOct 17, 2013
By Ira Stoll AS the 50th anniversary of President Kennedys assassination approaches, we Jews have our own special reasons to mourn. The conventional community memory...
Massive turnout for Conservative Judaism’s centennial meeting; at 100, deep introspection
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 17, 2013
BALTIMORE It will be years before its clear whether this weeks conference of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism was a success. The centennial gathering...
Museum on Belgian shipping line stirs debate on Holocaust history
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 17, 2013
ANTWERP With the confidence befitting a septuagenarian grandmother, Ellen Bledsoe-Rodriguez briskly leads her family past the beer stalls and DJs that dot the Flemish...
Domestic abuse addressed at shelters in haredi community
Ben Sales, JTAOct 17, 2013
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel It was only when her sons came at her with knives that she realized keeping quiet was not going to work. For nine years, her rabbis […]
My encounters with Rabbi Yosef
Hillel GoldbergOct 10, 2013
“Waste” is probably the wrong word. Even moments that would not be considered wasted by most people, he saved for Torah study. For example, he did not visit the...
The big book with one word
Chris LeppekOct 03, 2013
Six million Jews. How can anyone really contemplate, let alone visualize, such a staggering number? Especially when it’s a number of murdered people? Can the sheer...
Sally Levin’s new gravestone is unveiled in Cheyenne
Chris LeppekOct 03, 2013
A tragic circle closes LAST Sunday, a windy late September morning in Cheyenne, a tragic story from long ago came full circle. Prayers were said, a new tombstone was...
Repurposing your lulav and etrog
JNSSep 30, 2013
Given the state of the economy these days, its painful to buy anything that you can only use once. Why not stretch the value of your lulav and etrog this […]
Can Gentiles save Jewish day schools?
Uriel Heilman, JTASep 23, 2013
AKRON During a High Holidays discussion about repentance in Sarah Greenblatts Jewish values class, not all the students are listening. One girl stares out the...
