Uriel Heilman
By Uriel Heilman
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Culture What Hasidic Jews Do — and Don’t Do — on Christmas Eve
(JTA) — Christmas is a day like any other in most Hasidic neighborhoods in New York: Children go to school, shops are open, and tinsel and holly are nowhere to be seen. But Christmas Eve occupies a special place on the Hasidic calendar as a kind of “silent night,” when beit midrash study halls fall…
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Breaking News Brandeis President Plans Diversity Push and Education for ‘Needs of Tomorrow’
(JTA) – Brandeis University announced Thursday that its next president will be Ronald Liebowitz, the former president of Middlebury College. Though he won’t start until next July, Liebowitz shared some of his ideas about the challenges he faces: Uriel Heilman: How do you anticipate the challenges of leading Brandeis will differ from those you faced…
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Life Men Take Monthly Mikveh Dunks as Menstrual Rite With Wives
(JTA) — Mikvah night has an unusual meaning in the Ozur Bass household. As for many observant Jewish women, it’s the night each month that Janet Ozur Bass immerses in the mikvah ritual bath following menstruation. Once she emerges from the water, husband and wife may resume the physical intimacy traditionally forbidden while a woman…
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Breaking News Reform and Conservative Leaders Push Israeli President for ‘Equal Rights’
(JTA) — It was all hugs and smiles when Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met Friday with leaders of America’s three main Jewish denominations at an event hosted by UJA-Federation of New York. But when it came time to speak, the Reform and Conservative leaders made clear they had no intention of papering over their disappointment…
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News Slain Messianic Jew Was Outspoken Admirer of Israel — and Jews
(JTA) — While America puzzles over the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, many American Jews are puzzling over an additional element: the religious identity of victim Nicholas Thalasinos. Pictured on his Facebook page wearing a scarf-style tallit prayer shawl, Thalasinos, who was killed along with 13 others in Wednesday’s shooting at a center for…
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Breaking News Why Shelly Silver Won’t Be Sharing A Prison Cell With Willie Rapfogel
(JTA) – The two men used to share the same synagogue pew. One’s wife was the other’s chief of staff. Now both share an ignoble distinction: guilty of accepting millions through illegal kickback schemes. There is one thing Sheldon Silver and William Rapfogel won’t share, however: a jail cell. Within the space of less than…
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News Conservative Judaism Seeks To Rebrand Itself — But as What?
(JTA) — Conservative Judaism is at a crossroads. The movement is committed to Jewish tradition, but it’s seeing a growing number of its young people walk out the door — most often to Reform Judaism. American Jews who self-identify as Conservative increasingly are leading lives at odds with the core values and rules of Conservative…
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Food Are You Ready for the Kosher Grape Juice War?
(JTA) – is coming to seder this year. For decades, America’s kosher grape juice market has been dominated by Kedem, whose sweet libations come in concord, blush, white, peach, diet and a variety of sparkling flavors. But with U.S. sales flat when it comes to non-kosher grape juice, Welch’s, America’s largest grape juice company, is…
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