Author Tod Goldberg goes gangster
Avishay Artsy
December 4, 2014
Tod Goldberg was excited to have his author photo taken for the jacket of his new crime novel, “Gangsterland” (Counterpoint Press).
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Hundreds of Ukrainian Jews receive aid packages at Lugansk synagogue
Jewish Journal
December 4, 2014
Several hundred Jews braved sub-freezing temperatures to receive aid packages at the synagogue in the besieged city of Lugansk.
Daniel Cainer chronicles a kosher crisis
Jewish Journal
December 4, 2014
Thus begins the gentle, sometimes hilarious, often poignant and all-true saga, Daniel Cainer’s “Jewish Chronicles.”
Eric Garner’s death does not make me feel safer
Jewish Journal
December 4, 2014
The words of Leviticus should sting our ears and shock our conscience in the wake of a Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict a New York City police officer who killed Eric Garner after using a chokehold, a long-prohibited technique, in attempting to arrest him for a simple misdemeanor – selling single, untaxed cigarettes.
Franklin Graham: America’s failure to understand religion foils cogent Mideast policy
Jewish Journal
December 4, 2014
Franklin Graham, the son of legendary evangelical preacher Billy Graham and heir to the religious empire his father built has worked extensively in the Middle East and has watched America’s Mideast policies evolve over the years that Graham, Senior offered counsel and support to successive US presidents.
Oil spill floods into Israeli nature reserve
Jewish Journal
December 4, 2014
Millions of litres of crude oil have gushed out of a pipeline to flood 200 acres of a desert nature reserve in southern Israel, officials said on Thursday.
Black, Jewish and challenging ideas about the face of federation
Jewish Journal
December 3, 2014
When Ilana Kaufman, a program officer at the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation, arrived at San Quentin State Prison for a meeting with the Jewish chaplain at California’s oldest correctional facility, the chaplain couldn’t seem to find her — even though Kaufman was standing in plain sight.
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