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HUC names Rabbi Panken
Uriel Heilman, JTAAug 08, 2013
NEW YORK If you want to lead a major Reform Jewish organization, heres a piece of advice: Go to the Westchester Reform Temple. With last weeks announcement that...
After a career in Congress, Peter Deutsch finds new life in Israel
Uriel Heilman, JTAJul 25, 2013
RAANANA, Israel When US Rep. Peter Deutsch lost his campaign for the US Senate in 2004, forcing him out of Congress for the first time in 12 years, he […]
Good news: ADL says US anti-Semitic incidents drop
IJN StaffJul 25, 2013
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the US fell by 14% in 2012, continuing a three-year trend of incremental declines, according to the ADL annual audit of...
How to approach mental illness
Andrea JacobsJul 18, 2013
When a baby takes its first steps a normal evolutionary act parents often feel they are witnessing a miracle. The world stops as all eyes stare at the awkward...
Holy work or troublemaking? Laying the groundwork for a Third Temple in Jerusalem
Ben Sales, JTAJul 14, 2013
JERUSALEM No praying. No kneeling. No bowing. No prostrating. No dancing. No singing. No ripping clothes. These are the Muslim rules that Jews must abide by when...
On Tisha b’Av, feeling the loss from the flames
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAJul 11, 2013
LOS ANGELES On Yom Kippur, we ask Who by fire? Sadly, this year at Tisha bAv we already know who the 19 firefighters who perished in Arizona. This...
Osi Sladek, Holocaust survivor, and the 98-year-old Nazi
Andrea JacobsJul 04, 2013
A FEW months ago, Holocaust survivor Osi Sladek and his wife Selma were in Toronto visiting his sister when a news report surfaced about Laszlo Csatary, accused of...
Rabbi Morris, rebel with a cause
Andrea JacobsJul 04, 2013
TEMPLE Micah, the progressive Jewish congregation that challenges the norm, is moving into a larger rented space at Park Hill United Methodist Church (PHUMC) in the Park...
The sad, sad story of Sally Levin
Chris LeppekJun 27, 2013
ON a warm August morning in 1937, Sam Levin an Orthodox Jew highly respected in both Jewish and Gentile circles drove his truck to a pawnshop in Cheyenne,...
Pierre Wolfe, escapee, restaurateur, now a novelist
Chris LeppekJun 13, 2013
One might think that at the age of 87, after escaping the Holocaust, after seeing much of the world, after a wildly successful career as a chef, restaurateur and radio...
