GENTILES FOR ISRAEL: Two articles in two different Jewish newspapers from opposite ends of the country focus on non-Jews who are taking leadership positions in pro-Israel organizations. The Jewish Advocate reports on three gentiles who are involved with the Boston branch of the Jewish National Fund, while San Francisco’s J. speaks with the new non-Jewish…
SHOAH’S NO LAUGHING MATTER: Writing in the New York Jewish Week, Rabbi Joshua Hammerman says that with time the Holocaust is becoming assimilated into the larger Jewish story — becoming “normalized.” While he sees this process as healthy, he notes one unfortunate side effect: the emergence of crude Holocaust humor that is offensive to survivors….
CROWN HEIGHTS REDUX: Jewish activists in Crown Heights — the Brooklyn Lubavitcher stronghold that became synonymous with the word “riot” in the 1990s — are faulting police over their response to a number of recent attacks on Jews in the neighborhood. Also in the Jewish Week: Israel correspondent Michele Chabin takes a look at the…
FOXMAN NOODGES OBAMA: The Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman may have hailed Barack Obama for repudiating his church magazine’s decision to honor Louis Farrakhan. But Foxman tells the New York Jewish Week that Obama should go further in distancing himself from his church’s controversial minister, Jeremiah Wright. “He’s distanced himself from his pastor’s decision to honor…
HERESY OR ERROR?: The New York Jewish Week follows up on the debate prompted by an Israeli rabbinic court’s refusal to convert a man who reportedly believes the late Lubavitcher rebbe is the messiah. MISSING MATZOH: Something has vanished from the shelves of the kosher sections of American supermarkets. “Customers looking for Manischewitz matzah and…
LUBAVITCHER VS. LUBAVITCHER: The leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has won a court battle for control of their main Crown Heights synagogue against their more messianically inclined brethren, The New York Jewish Week reports. Also in the Jewish Week: Murdered Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto had long maintained a close friendship with Jewish Democratic lobbyist and…
CASH INCENTIVE: Nearly four decades after the first meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, scholars are taking stock of their rapidly growing field. But, The New York Jewish Week reports, some think the growth of Jewish studies is due in part to the desire of colleges and universities to curry favor with Jewish donors….
SHUL BURNS: Temple Ahavat Achim of Gloucester, Mass., has burned to the ground, Boston’s Jewish Advocate reports. The fire was accidental, and the Conservative synagogue’s congregants have found temporary sanctuary at a nearby Unitarian Universalist church. RABBI KOPPELL GOES TO WASHINGTON: Writing in the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, Rabbi Bonnie Koppell of Arizona tells…
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