A local rabbi says she’s encouraged by the dialogue started with Montclair High School administrators in the month since an email from the school honored ultranationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane, prompting quick apologies from school leaders. Rabbi Ariann Weitzman met with the MHS administration for a professional development session June 9, discussing Jewish history and the…
Jordan Gershon Mann is an Ivy League Olympic hopeful, has an MBA and likes to dress up as anime characters for comic book conventions. The 28-year-old Rhode Island resident will be competing in the Olympic track and field steeplechase trials in hope of joining Team USA on June 21 and 24 in Eugene, Ore. He…
(JTA) — (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Two Jewish mental health professionals at Stanford University’s on-campus counseling clinic have filed federal complaints of workplace discrimination for what they call “severe and persistent” anti-Jewish harassment by colleagues. Dr. Ronald Albucher, a psychiatrist and associate professor in the medical school, and Sheila…
This story was originally published on June 1, 2021, by THE CITY. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning.” Many of the questions we’ve received lately about ranked choice voting have been about the process of tallying votes and when we’ll know who won the primary…
J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group, withdrew its application to join the largest Zionist coalition in the United States last month after a series of eleventh-hour maneuvers by conservative groups sank its chance of being accepted. The board shuffle that effectively prevented J Street from joining the American Zionist Movement (AZM), which has 36 members,…
He lives in the controversial Israeli settlement Ofra in the occupied West Bank, having grown up in Beit El, another settlement that has been the object of numerous legal disputes. He was a student and protege of the late Rabbi Benny Elon, a right-wing politician known for leading yeshiva students to seize property in the…
22 years ago, George Birnbaum was at Benjamin Netanyahu’s side as his campaign strategist when the former prime minister lost his first re-election bid. On Sunday, Birnbaum, who was once Netanyahu’s chief of staff, was in the Knesset, watching Netanyahu exit the stage once again. But this time, Birnbaum was signed on to assist the…
Paul Finkelman was shopping for groceries at Price Chopper supermarket in Albany, NY, when his son asked him to come over to the deli aisle. Finkelman’s son, who had been looking for turkey, found packages of Price Chopper’s store-brand PICS sliced ham stamped with the Orthodox Union’s (OU) kosher certification. Finkelman was surprised that the…
(JTA) — In October 2018, intelligence analyst Mitchell Silber was in Ukraine on a job assessing security threats to Jews around Europe when the United States experienced the country’s deadliest-ever anti-Semitic attack. A gunman forced his way into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people. “Suddenly the problem was a lot closer…
More than half of American Jews said they encountered antisemitism following the start of May’s violence in Israel and Gaza, according to a survey released Monday by the Anti-Defamation League. Its findings suggest a dramatic uptick in the number of Jews who have witnessed antisemitic behavior, or heard or read an antisemitic comment. A January…
As the incoming president of Gratz College, Zev Eleff says he will build on the Hebrew college’s success in attracting students from across the spectrum of Jewish life and developing new programs to expand its national reach. Eleff, a 35-year-old scholar of American Jewish history, currently serves as the chief academic officer of Hebrew Theological…
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