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No ‘Israel’ on US passports
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 11, 2015
WASHINGTON Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court decision that will keep Israel off the passports of Jerusalem-born Americans,...
To build or not to build? Fierce debate in Crestmoor
Shana GoldbergJun 11, 2015
battle in city planning went into the wee hours on Tuesday, June 9, at Denver’s City and County building. A group of Crestmoor Park residents went head to head...
Riskin expects to be challenged by Rabbinate on his progressive policies
Ben Sales, JTAJun 04, 2015
TEL AVIV Theres no shortage of Israelis who want to reform the office of the Chief Rabbinate. Ranging from advocates of religion-state separation to leaders of...
For Yazidis of Iraq, crisis is not over
Michael Zeff, TPSJun 04, 2015
NEARLY ONE year ago, global media and public opinion raged over the humanitarian crisis and near genocide facing the Yazidi population of northern Iraq at the hands of...
IJN wins four Rockower awards in Jewish journalism
IJN StaffJun 03, 2015
The Intermountain Jewish News won four Rockower Awards for 2014 in the January, 2015 competition sponsored by the American Jewish Press Association. The awards for...
BDS veers into anti-Semitism
JTAMay 28, 2015
By Dan Pine, j. SAN FRANCISCO — Liana Kadisha, a senior at Stanford University, says some Jewish students on her campus feel they have to hide who they are. The...
Israel to cut off child allowances to parents who don’t vaccinate
Ben Sales, JTAMay 28, 2015
TEL AVIV — Each month, the Israeli government sends a check to every Israeli family with at least one child. The more children you have, the more money you get....
Memorial promenade planned for three kidnapped boys
Chris LeppekMay 21, 2015
NEARLY A year after the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, the community in which they lived is determined to transform the scene of their abduction into...
Lining up a Jewish rogues’ gallery
Uriel Heilman, JTAMay 21, 2015
NEW YORK Rabbi Barry Freundel was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for surreptitiously videotaping naked women in the mikveh shower room adjacent to his synagogue....
Gutow stepping down from JCPA
JTAMay 21, 2015
NEW YORK Rabbi Steve Gutow is stepping down after leading the Jewish Council for Public Affairs for 10 years. Gutow, the JCPA president and CEO, will stay in place...
