Features
Consuming 100 sufganiyot — for charity
Andrea JacobsDec 01, 2011
IN 2009, Elie Klein placed a gentlemans wager with two neighbors in Bet Shemesh, Israel, to see how many sufganiyot (deep fried, jelly-filled donuts) they could...
Is your blood redder than hers?
Andrea JacobsNov 24, 2011
ON Feb. 4, 2010, Fran Waldman was drinking her morning coffee when the doctor called to give her the results of a battery of tests. She was 62. He said […]
WW II partisans gather in New York, including two Denverites
Hillel Kuttler, JTANov 17, 2011
NEW YORK Allen Small, 83, and Leon Bakst, 86, hugged each other so tight, Small said, I couldnt let go. Their embrace at a synagogue on Manhattans Upper East...
John Fielder: Why the outdoors matters
Andrea JacobsNov 03, 2011
PHOTOGRAPHER John Fielder unwinds in a chair at his gallery on Santa Fe Drive, accepting congratulations from lingering patrons who seem unable to leave the exotic...
Rabbis finally remembered at Arlington’s Chaplains Hill
JTAOct 27, 2011
ARLINGTON, Va. Fourteen Jewish military chaplains who gave their lives in service to their country finally have a place of honor in Arlington National Cemetery....
Mixed messages from Lithuania
JTAOct 22, 2011
VILNIUS, Lithuania At first it seemed like a potential breakthrough in Lithuanias efforts to come to terms with the Holocaust. In September of last year,...
After the Carmel fire: A Torah’s trip to a secular kibbutz
JTAOct 13, 2011
By Jerry Krivitzky MONTCLAIR, NJ — We land at Ben Gurion Airport in the heat of winter, on the first day of Chanukah. At 11 a.m. Dec. 2, already it is 82
1919 ‘Hitler Letter’is earliest reflection of anti-Semitism
Tom Tugend, JTAOct 06, 2011
LOS ANGELES Ten months after WW I ended, a 30-year-old German army veteran wrote a two-page letter in which he explained the Jewish question on a rational and...
Should my sukkah have a debt ceiling?
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAOct 06, 2011
LOS ANGELES Each Sukkot we read in Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, that there is a time to tear down, and a time to build up. For my sukkah it was time […]
AJC’s Project Interchange breaks stereotypes, builds bonds
Chris LeppekSep 22, 2011
Sam Witkin is disturbingly frank in his description of the way many non-Jews who have never been to Israel perceive the Jewish state. In the eyes of most people, he...
