Eric J. Greenberg
By Eric J. Greenberg
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News Vatican Memo Reignites Pius Debate
Jewish organizations are stepping up their pressure on the Vatican after the discovery of a memo suggesting that Pope Pius XII directed French Church officials not to return some Jewish children to their families after World War II. Several American Jewish interfaith leaders said the document could reignite the long-simmering struggle between the Vatican and…
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News Messinger, AJWS Gain Prominence for Tsunami Relief
When President Bush publicly thanked hundreds of government workers and international charity leaders for their tsunami relief efforts Monday, he singled out Ruth Messinger, a life-long liberal Democrat from New York and president of the American Jewish World Service. Addressing an audience at the U.S. Agency for International Development headquarters near the White House, Bush…
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Culture Reform, Conservative Movements Collaborate on Principal Training
The educational arms of the Reform and Conservative movements are cooperating in an unprecedented way on a new project. Reform’s Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion and Conservative’s Jewish Theological Seminary both have agreed to provide faculty and funds for the Leadership Institute for Congregational School Principals. “This is a historic moment for…
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News Updated Blood Libel Hits Mideast Papers, Airwaves
In what seems like a creepy Islamist twist on a Hollywood horror movie, Israel and America are being accused of stealing body parts from defenseless Arab Muslims. The charges, made in a newspaper article and in an unrelated television series airing in Iran, appear to underscore the vanishing distinction in the eyes of Islamic extremists…
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Israel News Journalist Jack Newfield, Fighter for the Underdog
From humble beginnings in the poor Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Jack Newfield rose to become one of the most important crusading newspapermen of his era, a working-class hero zealously exposing mendacious slumlords and corrupt judges and politicians. But he simultaneously rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful, becoming a confidant to such power brokers as…
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News Antiquities Dealers Indicted
In one of the most stunning developments in the history of biblical archaeology, Israeli authorities this week indicted four antiquities dealers for allegedly operating a forgery ring that involves some of the most significant biblical artifacts ever discovered. The forged treasures include an ivory pomegranate believed to be the only relic from Solomon’s Temple, a…
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News Christmas Holiday Sparks Culture Battle
’Tis the season to be jolly? The unknown composer of that lyric clearly wasn’t living in America in 2004. This winter holiday season has been anything but jolly for both Christians and non-Christians, as the debate over church-state separation and how America should celebrate the holiday in the public square went from simmering to boiling…
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News Top Conservative Rabbi Floats Idea Of ‘Peace Holiday’
Give peace a holiday? That’s the new idea being floated by the head of Conservative Judaism’s synagogue movement. Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice president of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, issued an essay this week proposing that, considering all the “insecurity, violence and frustration” on Earth today, the time has come for Jews across…
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