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(JTA) — When it’s held in Israel once every five years, the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly aims to focus on challenges and opportunities facing the Jewish state. In large part, this year was no exception. Israel’s president, prime minister and other prominent politicians addressed the crowd. Sessions covered Israel’s foreign and domestic…
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The Orthodox population is growing even faster than earlier reports from the Pew Research Center’s recent survey of American Jews suggested. A new analysis of data from Pew finds that 27% of Jews younger than 18 live in Orthodox households. That’s a dramatic jump from Jews aged 18 to 29, only 11% of whom are…
Mental illness took my brother’s life on numerous occasions, most recently and for the last time when he was 58. He was 22 the first time he died, six years to the day after my father’s yahrzeit. His obituary noted that Gerald M. Jacobs died at home, but funeral arrangements were incomplete. Contributions could be…
(JTA) — The need for a firm barrier between church and state is as clear now for Susan Galloway as it was in grade school, when she was expected to sing carols at the Christmas show. Galloway grew up in McHenry, Ill., a town northwest of Chicago with few other Jews, and the carols sung…
“I speak to you as an American Jew,” stated Alan van Capelle as he addressed a crowd of thousands standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the event marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. His representation of the Jewish community at this historic event was a clear sign of van…
A co-founder of Ms. Magazine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin has a 40-plus year reputation as an advocate for women. This year, she took a page from the feminist movement’s playbook to crusade on behalf of another marginalized group: the sick. Pogrebin’s 10th book, “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick,” is, in her…
Rabbi David Ingber talks about his relationship with Judaism as some might describe an acid trip. Born and raised in a Modern Orthodox family, the 44-year-old founder of Romemu was drawn to ultra-Orthodoxy while on a gap year program in Israel in the late 1980s. He describes the next five years of his life as…
Throughout his career as a real estate and sportswear executive, president of the Koret Foundation and chairman of Taube Philanthropies, co-founder of the United States Football League and principal of its team, the Oakland Invaders, Thaddeus “Tad” Taube, 82, has been known for his significant philanthropic efforts and his Jewish focus. These two proclivities converged…
There is one question on the mind of media folks these days: What works online? And at the moment, the website that seems to have the answer is BuzzFeed. Its editor, Ben Smith, 37, is at the center of an experiment that tries to fuse the most entertaining and viral elements of the digital age…
Susan Silverman is the woman who managed to get the world’s tabloids interested in the feminist struggle at the Western Wall. Never in Women of the Wall’s 25-year struggle for women’s prayer rights at the Kotel has it enjoyed such a high profile as it did on the February morning when police detained Silverman, 50,…