Karenna Gore Schiff a Hit at UJA Women’s Lion of Judah Luncheon “Amazing what women can achieve,” said Bonni Gould, chair of the UJA-Federation of New York Women’s Philanthropy Lion of Judah luncheon held on November 5. She then introduced guest of honor Karenna Gore Schiff to those gathered at the New York Hilton. Daughter…
NEWS ITEM: President-elect Obama named Rahm Emanuel, a Jewish congressman, White House chief of staff. A hard-nosed guy who takes no gaff As presidential chief-of-staff! In Jewish circles, people kvell About him: Rahm Emanuel. They see in him a rising buoy, This congressman from Illinois. They think he’s on the up-and-up — Moreover, with a…
Washington — Breaking with the Bush administration, the incoming foreign policy team of President-elect Barack Obama is expected to embrace Israeli–Syrian peace talks and might actively take part in negotiations that until now the Americans have shunned. This assessment is shared by Middle East experts trying to gauge the foreign policy priorities of the incoming…
On November 23, Chabad emissaries from around the world gathered in joy on the New York City waterfront for a banquet celebrating Chabad’s extensive Jewish outreach to every corner of the globe. A week and a half later, on December 2, members of Chabad gathered once more, this time in sorrow, at the Mount of…
On the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving I was in my office in New York, preparing notes for a finance class I was set to teach the next week. I grew up in Mumbai, India, and I had heard earlier in the day from my brother about the terrorist attacks in my hometown, but I had…
Los Angeles — For Samantha Krieger’s bat mitzvah, guests were asked to reply by e-mail instead of paper cards, the food was served on bamboo plates and candles decorated the wooden tables in place of flower centerpieces. Krieger’s bat mitzvah reception — celebrated in a California state park in lieu of a hotel ballroom —…
Los Angeles — The University of California, one of the country’s largest public higher education systems, will soon allow students to return to studying abroad in Israel. The school announced November 25 that it intends to reopen its Education Abroad Program with the Rothberg International School at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The U.C. system was…
The Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who died in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai have been the most prominent faces of the Jews murdered there. But about two miles from the apartment building where the couple and four others died, the attacks claimed the life of another Jewish victim, Alan Scherr. His story, it could be said, represents…
Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the jihadist group suspected as perpetrator of the stunning terrorist attack last month in Mumbai, has expanded its ambitions greatly since the late 1980s, when it was founded, with Pakistani military sponsorship, to battle the Indian Army in Kashmir. The terrorist group is now closely intertwined with Al Qaeda and its global agenda, say…
While most of the media attention in the wake of the attack on the Chabad-run Nariman House in Mumbai has focused on slain Lubavitch emissaries Gavriel and Rachel Holtzberg, less noted was the death of a third Hasidic Jew in the assault, Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum, a member of the Satmar sect. What makes Teitelbaum’s death…
In the midst of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Samson Talkar did something he had never done before on Shabbat: He packed a pistol before leaving for synagogue. Talkar, a retired chief of homicides with the Mumbai police, was not frightened. But as last week’s terrorist siege on his city entered its third day, the unflappable…
באַזונדערש רירנדיק דאָ זײַנען די בילדער פֿון משפּחה־רײַבונגען, פֿון באַגעגענישן װאָס ברענגען נישט צו קײן עמאָציאָנעלע פֿאַרשטענדיקונגען.
