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Rabbis remember marching with Martin Luther King in South in 1960s
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJan 13, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO Rabbi Israel Dresner, 81, says hes the most arrested rabbi in America. At least that was the case in the 1960s, he says, when Dresner was one...
WW II veteran shares sharp memories tempered by mellow philosophy of life
Chris LeppekJan 06, 2011
DAVID Marks likes to tell jokes not quite off-color, but ironically and cleverly funny and he likes to join his listener in laughing at them. He likes to
Synagogue and mosque: A little neighborliness — from 9/11 on — has gone a long way
JTADec 30, 2010
PHILADELPHIA The cars slowly turn onto the long driveway, their wheels occasionally crunching the adjacent ground frozen from the night before and speckled with a...
Reclaiming vanished Jewish history in Galicia
Dina Kraft, JTADec 23, 2010
SOLOTVYN, Ukraine On a sloping green hill tucked between small farmsteads, the mottled graves of Jews buried here since the 1600s rise up like a forgotten forest....
New rabbinical school in Canada is between Orthodox and Conservative
Sue Fishkoff, JTADec 16, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO When the opening of a new rabbinical school is announced, the obvious first question for many is: What denomination is it? In the case of a new...
Naomi Chazan, New Israel Fund leader, speaks
Chris LeppekDec 09, 2010
NAOMI Chazan may not quite look the part of a fighter but she is one. The president of the New Israel Fund may be articulate and moderate in her […]
The ballad of John and Leon
IJN StaffDec 08, 2010
By Pam Zimmerman Leon Wildes sits in a polished conference room on Madison Avenue, where the walls are festooned with news articles and enlarged photographs of John...
New December dilemma: early Chanukah
Andrea JacobsDec 02, 2010
CHRISTMAS comes but once a year, on Dec. 25: not Nov. 29, not Dec. 28, but Dec. 25. Chanukah also comes but once a year, on 25 Kislev: not 10 […]
A Crypto-Jew’s path of discovery
Chris LeppekNov 26, 2010
FOR Hadassah Grove, mystery and enigma were lifelong companions. A striking Catholic icon always occupied a prominent place by the threshold of her homes, yet she and...
In an economic recession, historical preservation of an old
Chris LeppekNov 25, 2010
SLOWLY but surely and in spite of considerable economic hindrance Shoenberg Farm is coming back to life. The once sprawling farm on the border of Arvada and...
