Uriel Heilman
By Uriel Heilman
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News Bernie Sanders Hires Outspoken Critic of Occupation as Jewish Outreach Director
(JTA) — Simone Zimmerman, the Bernie Sanders campaign’s newly hired national , is quite familiar with the American Jewish establishment. She is used to fighting against it. During the 2014 Gaza war, Zimmerman was one of the leaders of a group of young Jews that held regular protest vigils outside the offices of the Conference…
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Fast Forward Frustration at Bernie Sanders on Israel Boils Over Among Some Jewish Backers
It might have been the last place you’d expect anger to erupt against the Bernie Sanders campaign. But at a Jews for Bernie brunch in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood on Sunday, the frustration seemed to boil over when some silver-haired Jewish supporters of Sanders began deriding what they described as the campaign’s lackluster response to perceived…
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News When Hillary Came to This Rabbi’s Seder — and Stayed for Hours
(JTA) — How was Helene and Bob Fine’s family seder in 2000 different from every other Passover night? First lady Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea came. (President Bill Clinton would have joined, too, if not for Yasser Arafat, but we’ll get to that.) This was no political or community institution event. It was a…
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Fast Forward Transgender Jews Force Denominations to Change — Even Orthodox
(JTA) — Here’s a riddle: If a transgender Jew shows up at an Orthodox synagogue, on which side of the mechitzah barrier separating the sexes should the person be seated? That’s an easy one compared to more complex Jewish legal questions raised by people who don’t identify as the gender suggested by their physical anatomy…
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Fast Forward When ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ Comes to Campus, Some Find Silence Is Most Eloquent
(JTA) — When Israel Apartheid Week came to Columbia University in early March, there was potential for great agitation at the heavily Jewish campus. The local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the nation’s leading campus proponent of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, set up a mock “Israeli apartheid wall” in…
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News When Being a Good Shabbos Goy Is Great for Business
(JTA) — For Samir Patel, the term “goy” is no slur. It’s a point of pride. Patel is a manager of Suhag Wine & Liquors, a family-owned business in the heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Kew Gardens Hills, in Queens. He’s a Hindu immigrant from India, but the vast majority of his customers are religious Jews,…
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Food Baking a Perfect Bagel In Utah
(JTA) – When Robb Abrams first moved to this mountain city from the New York area six years ago, he loved the idea of living in an outdoorsman’s paradise. But there was one thing in particular he found very troubling: He couldn’t find a decent bagel anywhere. What began as a casual hunt quickly turned…
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Fast Forward Bring on the $129 Foldable Shabbat Hot Plate
(JTA) — First there was KosherLamp, the bedside light that could be turned on and off on the Sabbath. Then came KosherSwitch, the controversial toggle that allows users to control lights and other electronic appliances on Shabbat. Now there’s HotMat, a new foldable hotplate designed to give observant Jewish consumers a safe, portable and rabbinically sanctioned…
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