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Nelson Mandela strong on Jews, weak on Israel
JTADec 12, 2013
By Moira Schneider, JTA CAPE TOWN — In the early 1940s, at a time when it was virtually impossible for a South African of color to secure a professional...
Reform biennial to tackle fundamental issues facing movement
Uriel Heilman, JTADec 09, 2013
NEW YORK First there was the Conservative movements October biennial conference, billed as The conversation of the century and opened up to presenters from...
Community responds to anti-Israel ads on RTD
Chris LeppekDec 05, 2013
Now it’s Israel’s turn. Hardly had a slew of anti-Israel ads — accusing the Jewish state of ethnic cleansing — been taken down from the sides of RTD buses and...
Morocco place to go for Israeli mafia?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 05, 2013
JERUSALEM Surrounded by dozens of adoring followers at his grandsons wedding this summer, Eliezer Berland looked like any other chasidic rebbe marking a family...
Schneeweis nets a year’s tuition at CSU with half-court shot
Hillel Kuttler, JTANov 29, 2013
THE basketball goal that Ellen Schneeweis bought for her four sons as a Chanukah present in 2008 drew Andrew, the second oldest, to practice shot after shot. Some...
Outlaw contact with Israelis?
JTANov 29, 2013
MARRAKECH, Morocco A Moroccan Jewish leader said proposed bills by Moroccan lawmakers to outlaw all contact with Israelis stand no chance of passing. The two bills,...
Poverty haunts Israeli survivors
Ben Sales, JTANov 29, 2013
TEL AVIV Breakfast costs Dov Jakobovitz $2. Lunch costs him $2.25. Both are served in the public old-age home in south Tel Aviv where he lives. But the food
Interim deal on Iran splits Congress on new sanctions
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 29, 2013
WASHINGTON They want to brandish a new stick against Iran, but hawks in Congress arent going to use it yet. For all the disappointment they expressed following...
Jewish outcry against Bush appearance before Messianics lowers event profile
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 22, 2013
WASHINGTON George W. Bush granted Messianic Jews a brief shining moment in the spotlight last week and then just as quickly sent them back into the shadows. The...