Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Growing Number of Jews Have Georgia on Their Mind
In 1999, Atlanta’s Marcus Jewish Community Center left its old building downtown and built a lavish expansion on its 50-acre campus in the suburbs, equipped with indoor and outdoor pools, a professional theater, a summer camp and horse stables. Just a few years later, the new campus is packed every night of the week, and…
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Fast Forward ZOA Accuses ADL of Hogging Spotlight
The campus of the University of California at Irvine, long a breeding ground for controversy and anti-Israel activism, has stirred up another fight — this time between a pair of Jewish organizations. Morton Klein, president of the pro-Israel advocacy group the Zionist Organization of America, has sent a scolding letter to Abraham Foxman, national director…
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News Rabbis Form New Orthodox Organization
After years of tension between more liberal and conservative elements of the American Orthodox Jewish establishment, several liberal Orthodox rabbis have banded together to create a new rabbinic organization that offers an alternative to traditional Orthodox authorities. Rabbis Marc Angel and Avi Weiss have convened an organization they are calling the Rabbinic Fellowship, a national…
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News Are Jews Less Attached to Israel? Maybe Not
A new study is challenging the notion that American Jews are growing less attached to Israel. According to a study released by three researchers at the Steinhardt Social Research Institute, a prominent demographic research center at Brandeis University, an analysis of survey data going back more than a decade suggests that American Jewish attachment to…
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News McCain Absent From Jewish Debate
What was supposed to be a bipartisan debate among the three major presidential campaigns turned into a Democratic showdown, as the McCain campaign pulled out at the last minute from a scheduled debate of surrogates before a gathering of Jewish leaders. With the McCain camp absent, Jewish representatives of the Clinton and Obama campaigns vied…
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News The Shul That Stayed in Baltimore
Baltimore – Even though Beth Am Synagogue sits in the heart of Barack Obama territory, its loyalties were split down the middle on primary day. The synagogue was used as a polling place Tuesday, and an informal poll of the predominantly black voters who showed up suggested that Obama was a strong favorite. Among the…
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News Rabbis Criticize Good Friday Prayer
Washington – In a last-minute scramble at their annual convention this week, the union of Conservative rabbis brought to the floor and passed a resolution warning that a newly revised Catholic prayer could damage four decades of progress in Catholic-Jewish relations. The draft resolution, which was being rushed into attendees’ hands moments before they assembled…
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Culture Composing the Exile: Steve Bernstein’s Latest ‘Diaspora’ Album
Not many musicians appear both on the experimental jazz scene and in Anheuser-Busch ads, but then again, trumpeter Steve Bernstein is not your average musician. A polymath with prodigious chops, Bernstein — who in addition to composing is an arranger for pop albums, children’s TV shows and movie soundtracks — has been gigging some 34…
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