Features
Nuts, nuts, apples and wine: Hillel Goldberg’s charoset
Hillel GoldbergApr 07, 2011
FIRST, the good news: this charoset recipe yields scrumptious charoset. Second, the better news: If you like charoset not just for the seders, but for the rest of...
Activist pushes for greater Middle East media accuracy
Chris LeppekMar 31, 2011
NEVER underestimate the power of words. The ability of words and phrases to affect reality to actually alter perception is of great interest to Aryeh Green, who...
ADL’s Sugarman says anti-Semitism isn’t going away
Chris LeppekMar 17, 2011
THE more things change, the more they stay the same. Robert Sugarman, national chair of the Anti-Defamation League, doesnt use the ancient truism himself, but his...
Memory in Berlin and New York — the evolution of Holocuast memorials
Andrea JacobsMar 17, 2011
IN 1997, Prof. James E. Young chaired Berlins five-member Findungskommission to explore ways of accomplishing an improbable goal commemorating six million Jews...
Local man says that new sea in the Jordan valley can bring peace
Chris LeppekMar 10, 2011
WILLIAM Grimes, a Jewish man from Aurora, thinks he knows how to bring peace to the Middle East. A dreamer of big in fact, very big dreams, he […]
Ethicist Rabbi Tendler tells it like it is
Ben Harris, JTAFeb 17, 2011
NEW YORK After the January shootings in Arizona and the resultant calls for greater civility and moderation in the national discourse; after an acrimonious...
Son of a founder of Hamas tells how he turned from terrorism and from Islam
Chris LeppekFeb 17, 2011
MOSAB Hassan Yousef is a very serious young man, one whose dark eyes seldom waver from direct and piercing contact, one for whom smiles and laughter come but rarely, one...
If your credit goes bad
Chris LeppekJan 27, 2011
HERES the situation: You havent made a payment on your credit cards in three months there simply isnt enough money. The late fees are piling on. The interest...
Limmud: perfect networking tool for authors, artists, groups
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJan 20, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO Journalist and author Lisa Alcalay Klug flew across the country this month to present at Limmud NY, the annual New York version of the worldwide Jewish...
China’s long, colorful Jewish history
Chris LeppekJan 13, 2011
XU Xin is an affable, energetic and remarkably intelligent fellow who might just be the most knowledgeable person on the planet on the subject of the Jews of China. To...
