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RABBINIC AUTHORITIES
HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky
HaRav Yaakov Perlow
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Rabbi Ilan Feldman
Atlanta, GA
Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr. Richard Horowitz
Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh
Northbrook, IL
Dr. David Lieberman
Lakewood, NJ
Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun
National Director
Rabbi Shlomo Porter
Baltimore, MD
Mr. Jeff Schachter Esq.
Passaic, NJ
Mr. Frank Storch
Baltimore, MD
HaRav Michel Twerski
Milwaukee, WI
Mr. Jerry Wolasky
Baltimore, MD
ADVISORY BOARD
Mr. Mark Bane
Lawrence, NY
Mr. Jonathan Beren
Denver, CO
Dr. Robert Edelman
Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Avraham Edelstein
Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Michael J. Elman
Baltimore, MD
Rabbi David Felsenthal
New York, NY
Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman
Mr. Joseph Friedman
Olney, MD
Mr. Harvey Hecker*
Toronto, ONT
Mr. Stephen Rosedale
Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Simcha Scholar
Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Dovid Refson
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr Gary Torgow
Detroit, MI
Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD
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 Individualized Path to Growth: Aish South Africa
An Article from Hamodia
Rick O'Reilly* was a music fanatic. His high-school career was not a success, perhaps because he regularlymissed classes in order to play guitar. Continue Reading
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Intermarried Couples Raise Children in 2 Faiths
An Article from The Forward
When Susan Katz Miller's Episcopalian mother and Jewish father married in the 1960s, they did exactly what most religious leaders advised intermarried couples to do: They chose one religion and stuck to it.
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An Article from The New York Times
TO introduce a wider audience to Water Is Life, an upstart aid organization that provides potable water to villages in developing countries, DDB New York startled even unflappable New Yorkers. Continue Reading
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 Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town's Schools
An Article from The New York Times
The swastikas, the students recalled, seemed to be everywhere: on walls, desks, lockers, textbooks, computer screens, a playground slide - even on a student's face. Continue Reading
Promising a New GA ApproachAn Article from The Jewish WeekThis time, it's not going to be just talking. There's going to be listening and debating - and, eventually, action. Continue Reading Obama: Bibi is a Pain in the...An Article from Arutz 7Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama are not known to have had a good relationship, but the American president seems to have taken it a bit too far. Continue ReadingLearning About Jewish Community From Manhattan's Upper West SideAn Article from The ForwardThe recent findings of the Pew Research Center study (yes, that again) have left many of us scratching our heads, biting our nails and searching every which way for answers. Continue Reading Why Is Orthodoxy Packing Up Big Tent?An Article from the ForwardReaders of Israel's Haaretz.com, many of them liberal and secular, must have been surprised to read, in late October, a public manifesto, signed by 42 members of the Rabbinical Council of America castigating "Open Orthodox rabbis and leaders" in the United States. Continue ReadingUS Loses Voting Rights at UNESCO in DisputeAn Article from Fox NewsAmerican influence in culture, science and education around the world took a high-profile blow Friday after the U.S. automatically lost voting rights at UNESCO, after missing a crucial deadline to repay its debt to the world's cultural agency. Continue ReadingAnalysis: At Supreme Court Hearing, Passions Over Religion and Its RulesAn Article from ReutersA dispute over an upstate New York town's prayer before council meetings produced an unusually testy oral-argument session on Wednesday that recalled the decades of difficulty Supreme Court justices have had drawing the line between church and state. Continue Reading |
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 Survey of European Jews Reveals One-Third Considering Emigration
An Article from The New York Times
Fear of rising anti-Semitism in Europe has prompted nearly a third of European Jews to consider emigration because they do not feel safe in their home country. Continue Reading
Pig's Head Found at Ukraine Synagogue Under Construction
An Article from JTA
A pig's head was left on the doorstep of a synagogue being built in Sevastopol, the Ukrainian city's Jewish community said. Continue Reading
BBC Chastised for Six-Day War Documentary
An Article from BBC
The complainant said Snow's statement that: 'In 1967, Assad was Minister of Defence when Israel launched a series of strikes against Egypt, Jordan and Syria...' "vilified" Israel. Continue Reading
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 I Admit, I Am a Buju
An Article from The Forward
I admit, I am a BuJu. Of course, I am not alone. Not only do a disproportionate number of American Buddhist teachers come from Jewish backgrounds, but many Jews practice both Judaism and Buddhism, and many more practice a Jewish spirituality influenced by Buddhist-derived meditation practices and values.
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My Barber, My Book-- and the Temple Mount
An Article from The Forward
Are there toilets on the Temple Mount? I needed to find out. You see, a main character in a novel I was writing, "In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist," is a toilet cleaner on the Temple Mount.
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Getting a Read on Carlebach
An Article from The Jewish Week
There has been a huge outpouring of material about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach since his death 19 years ago at the age of 69. Continue Reading
Who Poisoned Arafat? Authors Claim It Was An Inside Job An Article from The Forward Inside Yasser Arafat's Ramallah headquarters, the top military and political and money men of the Palestine Liberation Organizaion would speak about their leader in hushed, nervous tones. Continue Reading NY Subway Mitzvah Goes Viral
An Article from Tablet
In a long life of quiet good deeds that generally go unnoticed except by the individuals on the receiving end, Isaac Theil, 65, had no hidden agenda last Thursday when he felt his neighbor on the Brooklyn-bound Q train nod off on his shoulder, and then let him sleep soundly there for the better part of the next hour. Continue Reading
'The Devil That Never Dies: Global Antisemitism' by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen An Article from The Washington Post Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's first book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners" (1996), was a blockbuster despite (or because of) its blunt thesis: Continue Reading Kosherfest 2013 Reflects Growing Demand for Healthy Alternatives An Article from Jewish News Service The growing demand for natural, organic, vegetarian, fiber, and gluten-free alternatives among kosher consumers was apparent at Kosherfest 2013. Continue Reading Brad Ausmus Talks Jews and Baseball
An Article from The Forward
Brad Ausmus was named the Detroit Tigers manager this week, making him the sixth Jew to lead a Major League club. Continue Reading
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