WHERE ARE TODAY’S HESCHELS?: Luminaries look back on the legacy of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on the centennial of his birth. The New York Jewish Week was on the scene. Also in the Jewish Week: A new downtown home for Makor — the pioneering Upper West Side cultural institution — is delayed; and upstart rabbinical…
TARSY SPLITS: After facing down Abe Foxman over the Armenian genocide issue, getting fired for it and then being reinstated following the ensuing uproar, the ADL’s New England regional director, Andrew Tarsy, is stepping down. Boston’s Jewish Advocate has the story. WHO’S A HELLENIST?: Writing in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish Press, Rabbi Gil Student says you…
OUR MAN IN MESOPOTAMIA: The Jewish Journal of Boston North profiles Rabbi Andrew Shulman of Malden, Mass., currently the U.S. military’s only Jewish chaplain in Iraq. He counsels soldiers who are far from home, and occasionally helps the military make sense of Judaism. “[T]here’s the time I got called to testify for a soldier stationed…
SCI-FI SHABBAT: An annual science-fiction convention adds Shabbat services to its programming, the L.A. Jewish Journal reports. JEWS AGAINST HAMSTERS: A Philadelphia alternative weekly is in hot water for putting a hamster dressed as an Orthodox Jew on the cover of its holiday issue. Critics say equating Jews with rodents has an ugly history. An…
DEAR JEW: New Jersey Jewish News editor Andrew Silow Carroll makes like ‘Ask a Mexican’ columnist Gustavo Arellano. CHINESE ARE JEWS, TOO: The Cleveland Jewish News speaks with five Chinese children who were adopted by local Jewish families and are now near bar and bat mitzvah age. SARAH’S SIS: Comedian Sarah Silverman’s rabbi sister spills…
For those religious readers of this column, I apologize for not writing one last week. We were super-busy week with the Forward 50. Hope you enjoy this week’s edition! KILLER’S CULT: New York Jewish Week Israel correspondent Michele Chabin looks at the campaign to free Yitzhak Rabin’s murderer. Also in the Jewish Week: Editor Gary…
ARABS AGAINST DIVIDING JERUSALEM: New York’s Jewish Week finds that some East Jerusalem Arabs aren’t too excited about the prospect of Palestinian rule. Also in the Jewish Week: Writing about a Charles Bronfman-sponsored contest seeking “The Next Big Jewish Idea,” editor Gary Rosenblatt questions whether Jews really need another one. We already have a big…
ATTACK AFTERMATH: The New York Jewish Week gauges the state of interethnic relations in the ultra-Orthodox stronghold of Lakewood, N.J., following a brutal attack on a rabbi. MORE JEWS, PLEASE: Pennsylvania’s Franklin & Marshall College tries to up its Jewish enrollment, Brooklyn’s Jewish Press reports. GO GONZO: New York’s Rabbi Niles Goldstein explains his “gonzo…
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