Uriel Heilman
By Uriel Heilman
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Fast Forward Israel Opposition Leader Sees ‘NATO-Style’ Alliance With Moderate Arabs
(JTA) — In the mind of Israel’s opposition leader, Labor Party chief Isaac Herzog, the array of threats in the Middle East these days present Israel with a historic opportunity. Yes, Palestinians are stabbing Israelis daily. Yes, Israel arguably has its most right-wing government since Benjamin Netanyahu’s first term as prime minister, in the late…
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Fast Forward Reform Biennial Puts Focus on Inclusion and Social Justice
(JTA) — Growing up in a traditional Jewish household, Joan Cubell didn’t really know much about Reform Judaism. But after obtaining ordination a few years ago from a little-known rabbinical institute in suburban New York, Cubell decided to make her home in the Reform movement. First she got a job as the leader of the…
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News 57% of Us Eat Pork and 9 Other Things About American Jews
(JTA) — Do you experience feelings of peace and well-being at least once a week? Did God write the Torah? Do you eat bacon? If these questions seem a little personal, don’t fret. They’re all part of a new Pew Research Center survey on American religion released Tuesday that shows moderate declines in religious beliefs and…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbis Group Chooses Confrontation in Feud Over Female Clergy
(JTA) — When America’s main modern Orthodox rabbinical association voted last week to ban the hiring of clergywomen by its members, the question wasn’t whether to endorse women rabbis. It was whether to widen the group’s well-established repudiation of female clergy or keep quiet and focus on finding common ground with modern Orthodox Judaism’s progressive…
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Fast Forward 8 Jewish Things About Rising Republican Star Marco Rubio
(JTA) — After Marco Rubio’s strong performance in Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate, many Americans are taking a second look at the U.S. senator from Florida. Here are a few things American Jews might want to know about him. Rubio had humble beginnings — and rose quickly The junior senator was born in Miami in…
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News Why Ben Carson’s Seventh Day Adventist Faith Matters
(JTA) — When Joe Lieberman became the first observant Jew with a reasonable chance at being president – after Al Gore named him his vice presidential running mate in 2000 – he faced a host of questions about how his Sabbath observance might impact his presidential duties. Now that Ben Carson, a Seventh Day Adventist,…
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Fast Forward Why Jonathan Sacks Says Jews Must Stop ‘Navel-Gazing’
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, a philosopher and member of the U.K. House of Lords who served as Britain’s chief Orthodox rabbi from 1991 to 2013, is in America lecturing and promoting his latest book, “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence.” JTA’s Uriel Heilman caught up with Sacks in New York for a conversation about his…
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Opinion No, God Is Not Punishing Jimmy Carter for ‘Anti-Semitism’
(JTA) — Former President Jimmy Carter, 90, recently announced he has cancer that has spread to his brain. For some Jews (and evangelical Christians), the cause apparently is obvious. No, it’s not his genetic makeup, or the spread of a mass from his liver to his brain. It’s divine punishment for his behavior toward the…
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