Uriel Heilman
By Uriel Heilman
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Fast Forward Bringing Chabad to Ski Resort of Vail
(JTA) — When Dovid Mintz was growing up around the corner from the Lubavitcher rebbe in Brooklyn, he never imagined he’d find inspiration for Jewish outreach work on a black-diamond ski slope. But after one of his nine siblings took up the post of Chabad emissary in Aspen, Colo., Mintz began making the trek to…
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News Non-Orthodox Jews Find Voice as Sharp Battle Lines Drawn in New York Suburb
Between economic challenges and declining affiliation rates, it has been a rough few years for the non-Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County. Situated about 30 miles north of midtown Manhattan, Rockland has been named New York’s most fiscally stressed community for two straight years by the state comptroller, and median home values are still down…
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Opinion Does Brian Williams Punishment Fit ‘Crime’?
(JTA) — By now, anyone interested enough to have read about the issue knows the basic facts: Longtime NBC anchor Brian Williams lied about having been on a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq in 2003. In truth, he was on a different helicopter that landed unimpeded about a half hour after the other chopper…
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News Rachel Timoner Brings Social Justice Focus to Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim
(JTA) — One of the top agenda items these days for Rachel Timoner, associate rabbi at the Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, is trying to get a train built along the I-405 freeway stretching from the North San Fernando Valley to the city’s international airport. It’s the community project her Reform congregation has chosen…
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News Was Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence Doomed by Fundraising Woes?
(JTA) — For all the controversies Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence endured over the past few months, the failures that ultimately doomed his tenure were more fundamental, insiders say: His fundraising just wasn’t good enough and his administrative track record was wanting. Last Friday, Lawrence announced that this would be his last semester at the…
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Israel News French Jews Feel Conflicted About Israel’s Call for Emigration
(JTA) — French Jews are feeling embattled. Arsonists have targeted their synagogues, terrorists have attacked their schools and shops, and with only a few exceptions, French society has not united behind them to stop the assaults and harassment. The solution, according to Israel’s prime minister, is simple: Move to Israel. “To all the Jews of…
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Food Pomegranate Juice Made for a Mitzvah
Thinkstock (JTA) – Get Rabbi Shulim Greenberg talking about the health benefits of pomegranate juice and he sounds like a homeopathic nutritionist — with a Yiddish accent. Every January, the Hasidic charity Greenberg runs obtains some 40,000 pounds of California pomegranates (donated by Pom Wonderful, the nation’s largest pomegranate producer), squeezes them into juice and…
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Fast Forward Detroit JCC May Close Amid Yawning $6M Debt
(JTA) — Amid persistent budget deficits, the Jewish community center building in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park may close this spring. The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit announced Monday that a committee is going to recommend that the building shut down in light of annual losses of $1 million and a total deficit of $6…
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