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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...

Becoming a rabbi later in life

BOSTON — Ten years ago, Sonia Saltzman was a frequent business traveler to Latin America for a Boston-based nonprofit job in international micro-lending. Evette Lutman...

Lod and Denver have long relationship

THE Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado has a long relationship with Lod, Israel. In 1986, the Denver Jewish community raised over $2 million to build a community...

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...

Eternal friends? Afterlife on Facebook — what people are doing, what rabbis think

ON April 11, 2011, at 12:02 a.m., Kiri Basner-Churches posted the following comment on her grandmother Anita Churches’ Facebook page — nine months after Churches died...

No more national Jewish studies

SAN FRANCISCO — The American Jewish community spends a lot of money counting itself. So does the US as a whole: The 2010 US Census cost taxpayers $13 billion. While...

Fixing broken hearts in Israel

HOLON, Israel — Just two days earlier but a world away, 8-year-old Salha Farjalla Khamis said goodbye to her parents and four siblings in her village on the African...

The man behind Chabad — ‘We measure success in small increments’

WRITING a thumbnail biography on Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky is no small challenge, at least if one follows the rabbi’s own guidelines. By his own definition, the rabbi is...

Russian immigrants’ turning point in Israel: Dolphinarium terror attack

TEL AVIV — Faina Dorfman, who immigrated to Israel from Uzbekistan hoping that her only child would have a better life here, walks along a stretch of beach just south...

AJA’s 40th birthday: a proud history, an exciting future

Present at Creation — 1971 Allied Jewish Apartments to Open in August, Intermountain Jewish News, July 9, 1971: Paul Miller, president of the of Allied Jewish Housing,...