As the controversy surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu speech to Congress reaches new heights, one of the Jewish community’s top leaders is calling on the Israeli prime minister to stay home. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti Defamation League said that the political uproar ignited by Netanyahu’s invitation to speak to a joint meeting of Congress…
The head of a Jewish-backed New York legal aid charity has reportedly resigned amid a federal investigation into his alleged “accounting irregularities.” Yisroel Schulman, president and attorney-in-charge of the New York Legal Assistance Group, submitted his resignation to the charity’s board on February 3, the New York Law Journal reported today. Schulman co-founded the group,…
In March 2013, Jewish educator and activist Allison Josephs, now 34, went to lecture at Rockland Community College about the journey to observance she took when she was a teenager. With her Jew in the City blog and her YouTube presence, Josephs, who was raised Conservative, has become a self-appointed spokeswoman for Modern Orthodox Judaism,…
The driver of an SUV at the center of a deadly crash with a New York commuter train has been identified as Ellen Schaeffer Brody, a Jewish mother of three from suburban Scarsdale. Brody, 49, was the driver whose car became stuck at a railway crossing when a train slammed into the vehicle, killing her…
Ninety-two universities in North America have endowments of more than $1 billion. Yeshiva University’s was the only one that shrank in value last year. Y.U.’s endowment fell $90 million, from $1.18 billion to $1.09 billion, according to an annual survey by Commonfund and the National Association of College and University Business Officers. During the same…
The year was 1977. The Argentinian military dictatorship’s “dirty war” against leftist militants and thinkers was at its height. Military officers blindfolded Jacobo Timerman, a Jewish newspaper editor, at his home in Buenos Aires and drove him off to a torture center. His son, Hector Timerman, would soon seek exile in the United States, where…
Yeshiva University has shed the burden of its prestigious but money-losing medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, amid a financial crisis that has drained $90 million — or 8% — of its endowment in the past year, The university still faces grim financial challenges, as well as the task of reassuring a faculty…
(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…
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Melbourne and Sydney is under the spotlight as an Australian Royal Commission into the child sexual abuse scandal began hearings. The government-sponsored inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, which began in 2013, has allocated two weeks to interrogate victims and officials of the Yeshivah Center in Melbourne and its…
One September night in 1997, Judy Rapfogel threw a party. Press reports had just declared her the winner in a tight Democratic primary race to represent Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the New York City Council, effectively making the seat hers in the heavily Democratic town. Her boss, the new State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver,…
Despite rising death tolls, no one seems to care about Ukraine anymore. In her graphic essay, Anya Ulinich remembers her childhood trips to Donetsk and reflects on the war’s impact on her family. Click to expand.
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