Features
Joe Lieberman rests not on laurels, but on Shabbat
Dan Klein, JTAAug 11, 2011
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
Penny Schwartz, JTAAug 04, 2011
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...
New federation CEOs bring more outside, less inside experience
Dan Klein, JTAJul 21, 2011
NEW YORK A generational changing of the guard throughout North Americas 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
Andrea JacobsJul 14, 2011
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
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJul 14, 2011
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
Dina Kraft, JTAJun 16, 2011
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’
Chris LeppekJun 10, 2011
WRITING a thumbnail biography on Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky is no small challenge, at least if one follows the rabbis own guidelines. By his own definition, the rabbi is...
Russian immigrants’ turning point in Israel: Dolphinarium terror attack
Dina Kraft, JTAMay 26, 2011
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
Larry HankinMay 19, 2011
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,...