Uriel Heilman
By Uriel Heilman
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Culture Mystery Pre-Holocaust Photo Trove Depicts Family of Yiddish Scholar Ruth Wisse
(JTA) — When documentary photographer Richard Schofield stumbled upon a trove of unidentified prewar photographs in September 2013 in the storage room of the Sugihara House museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, he knew he had found something special. The photos, dating from about 1910 through 1940, were from a Lithuanian Jewish family’s album that had been…
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Culture How Great Adventure Goes All-In Orthodox for Passover
(JTA) — Pinchas Cohen spent most of Monday wandering around Six Flags Great Adventure under a blazing sun, wearing a knee-length black coat and carrying a big box of shmura matzah under his arm. An imposing, Russian-born Chabad-Lubavitch Hasid who now lives in Brooklyn, Cohen came to this amusement park in New Jersey with his…
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Breaking News What We Know About How Jews Voted in New York Primary (Hint: It Ain’t Everything)
For a people obsessed with numbers, the Jews have relatively scant concrete data about how, exactly, the Jews voted in Tuesday’s presidential primary in New York. But we do know enough to make some educated guesses. Here’s what we know: Approximately 12 percent of all primary voters on Tuesday were Jewish, according to exit polls….
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Breaking News No Experience Necessary: Meet Trump’s Orthodox Israel Advisor
(JTA) – If Donald Trump wins the White House, he’ll probably be the first U.S. president whose top adviser on Israel used to do guard duty at a Jewish settlement in the West Bank armed with an M-16 assault weapon. The adviser, Jason Dov Greenblatt, currently works for Trump as a real estate attorney. Trump…
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Opinion Why Did John Kasich Bring Up Jesus Christ’s Blood in Orthodox Brooklyn?
(JTA) — If Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s visit to Hasidic Brooklyn this week had yielded only one amusing moment, Dayenu – it would have been enough. But, thank God, there were many in the Republican presidential candidate’s visit to a Jewish bookstore, shmura matzah bakery and Hasidic school in Borough Park on Tuesday. “It’s a…
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Life Orthodox Women Want Teaneck Rabbi Ousted Over Campus Rape Furor
(JTA) — An Orthodox women’s group is calling for the ouster of a Teaneck rabbi from a synagogue conference after he penned a blog post dismissive of the problem of rape on college campuses. Last week, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Bnai Yeshurun, a large Orthodox synagogue in the northern New Jersey township, suggested on his…
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Breaking News Bernie Sanders Supporters Insist He Embodies Their Jewish Values
(JTA) — Phil Aroneanu is a second-generation American Jew whose parents came to America as immigrants seeking refuge from an oppressive Communist regime in Eastern Europe. Aroneanu himself was born in New York City and later moved to Vermont. It’s a biography that to some extent mirrors that of Bernie Sanders. And it’s partly why…
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News Bernie Sanders Hires Outspoken Critic of Occupation as Jewish Outreach Director
(JTA) — Simone Zimmerman, the Bernie Sanders campaign’s newly hired national , is quite familiar with the American Jewish establishment. She is used to fighting against it. During the 2014 Gaza war, Zimmerman was one of the leaders of a group of young Jews that held regular protest vigils outside the offices of the Conference…
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