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Why Tiny Ukraine Jewish Community Plays Key Role in Propaganda War
Jews make up just 0.2% of Ukraine’s 44.5 million population. But to hear activists, analysts and commentators discussing the Ukrainian crisis, a listener could be forgiven for thinking that the fate of Ukrainian Jews is one of the central issues at stake. In recent weeks, Russian and Ukrainian politicians, as well as Ukrainian-Jewish leaders, have…
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Bloomingburg Dogged by Fraud Claims as ‘Hasidic’ Development Backers Face Voters
The last election in the quiet, one-stoplight village of Bloomingburg brought out only two dozen voters. But that was before a bitter feud broke out between locals and an Orthodox developer over a 396-unit housing development being marketed to Hasidic Jews that would likely more than double the village’s population. With the pro-development Mayor Mark…
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Benjamin Netanyahu Gives Declawed AIPAC Little To Fight For
Something was off-kilter in Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 4 appearance before the annual Washington policy conference of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying powerhouse. After five years of raging that the Obama administration was too hard on Israel and too soft on Iran, the Israeli leader faced a record crowd of 14,000 activists ready to storm the barricades…
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Brutal Winter Drives Jewish Congregations Together in Bigger Tent
(Haaretz) — This has been an especially brutal winter for the Middle Atlantic region of the United States. At least a dozen winter storms have hit since November, each more punishing than the last. A few weeks ago, one of these storms caused prolonged power outages across my county. Outages even impacted several congregations here,…
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‘Partnership Minyan’ Spreads Among Orthodox — and Rabbis Fire Back
(JTA) — If it wasn’t clear before, it should be abundantly clear now: The Orthodox establishment will not sanction so-called partnership minyans, and it’s willing to go to the mat to fight them. In recent weeks, a flurry of articles by leading Orthodox rabbis and scholars have taken aim at the growing phenomenon of partnership…
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Lifeline for American Soldiers Is Made in Israel
In her work with Israeli military veterans and victims of trauma, Sigal Haimov asks a lot of sensitive questions. But over a lengthy career as a mental health professional, she’s found that it’s one of the easiest questions to ask that’s trickiest for Americans to answer genuinely: “How are you doing?” “You” — that is,…
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An Unusual Hanukkah Lamp in Boston
At first glance, Yehia Yemini’s 1920s Hanukkah lamp, which was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in its 119-object Charles and Lynn Schusterman Collection, looks pretty typical. The silver lamp, supported by four small orbs for legs, contains the correct number of candleholders and an offset well for the shamash. The decorations…
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‘Fake Frum’ Con Man Scams More Than Dozen Orthodox Jews
More than a dozen Orthodox Jews have come forward to complain they were scammed by a ‘fake frum’ con artist in New York City who tricked them into giving him substantial sums of money with tales of bad fortune. The fraudster, who often approaches his targets near rail stations as the Sabbath nears, proffers panicked…
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Put Abbas to the Test
The tendentious exchange between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu these last few days underscores how differently each man views the third party in the on-again, off-again Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. That would be Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. So diametrically opposed are Obama and Netanyahu in their public assessment of the Palestinian leader that there…
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Brian Roberts’ Jewish Roots and Outsized Ambition Drive Comcast’s Rise in Media
A huge merger may turn the son of a Philadelphia Jewish entrepreneur into one of the most powerful Americans in the media industry. Brian Roberts, 54, chairman and CEO of Comcast, a cable and broadband provider that announced on February 13 its intention to take over Time Warner Cable in a $45 billion deal, seeks…
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91-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Killed by School Bus in Washington D.C. Suburb
A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor was struck and killed by a school bus as he crossed a street in a Maryland suburb of Washington. Elia Miranski was using a walker when the bus hit him in Silver Spring near Washington D.C. on Wednesday, the Silver Spring Patch news site reported. He died later that day in…
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