Eric J. Greenberg
By Eric J. Greenberg
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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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News U.N. Conference Denounces Terrorism, Racism
UNITED NATIONS — Even as United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Muslims to condemn extremists preaching and committing violence in the name of Islam, several participants of a special conference on “Islamophobia” were blaming “racist America” as the root cause for the rise in hate crimes against Muslims. The embattled Annan, target of a rising…
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News Bust at N.J. Party Raises Talk of Teen Substance Abuse
The story reads like a take-off on the Tom Cruise classic teen high-jinks film “Risky Business.” Parents go away on vacation, leaving their teenage son home alone. Son throws a big party, complete with beer, drugs and loud music, causing the neighbors to complain to the local police department. Police raid the party and arrest…
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News Controversial Imams Enter Dialogue With Rabbis
Some of the most influential and controversial Islamic clerics in the Middle East are participating in a plan to launch what organizers describe as the first joint-training institute to produce future moderate sheiks, rabbis, priests and ministers. The unprecedented proposal to create a summer religious institute — where young seminarians from the three faiths would…
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News Protestants Urged To Nix Divestment
A coalition of American Jewish organizations this week called on mainline Protestant leaders officially to reject divestment from Israel as a potential advocacy tool. The Jewish coalition issued a detailed statement Tuesday as its official response to the Protestant groups, who have been considering divestment but asked the Jewish organizations to explain why they find…
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News Sharon Backs Orthodox in Court Case
The thorny question of “Who is a Jew?” has resurfaced in an Israeli Supreme Court case that could trigger a new religious crisis between Israel and American Jewry. At issue is the interpretation of Israel’s Law of Return as it relates to Reform and Conservative conversions. Israel’s Supreme Court is slated to decide a case…
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News Controversy Over Israel Debate Rocks Ivy League School
A struggle between pro-Israel and anti-Israel forces at Columbia University escalated this week as an ad hoc campus group held an emergency meeting to plot a strategy to defend several Middle East studies professors accused of intimidating Jewish students. The gathering attracted about 60 students, professors and community members Monday night at Columbia’s Intercultural Resource…
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News Charity Gets by With a Little Help From a Friend
What does it take to join together a rock legend with a Jewish women’s charity? A stapler, of course. As part of an online charity auction sponsored by office-supply giant Staples, Ringo Starr has autographed a stapler that will be up for bid on the company’s Web site (www.staples.com) from November 16 to December 6….
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