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Rabbis for Romney
Jonah Lowenfeld
October 24, 2012
Many political organizers talk about themselves as reluctant activists, but when Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg said it wasn’t his intention, initially, to establish the group Rabbis for Romney, it’s hard not to believe him.
The Jews of Kaifeng, China
Jewish Journal
August 15, 2012
Jewish liturgy and ritual frequently remind us that the Israelites were scattered to the “four corners of the earth,” as symbolized by the four fringes of the tallit, or prayer shawl. The extent of the geographic dispersion of the Jews over millennia has been vast, ranging from Baghdad to Burma, Marrakesh to Melbourne, Jerusalem to Los Angeles.
Religious zealots attack “immodest” Jerusalem shops
Jewish Journal
October 19, 2011
A sign at the ice cream parlor may caution men and women not to lick cones in public, but the warning didn\’t stop Jewish zealots vandalizing the shop in Jerusalem\’s main ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.
Lauder letter to Olmert urging Disapora role in Jerusalem negotiations stirs passions
Jacob Berkman
January 25, 2008
The president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has roiled the organization\’s branch in Israel by writing to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a plea to allow Diaspora Jews a voice in any decisions on Jerusalem\’s future
The Bloods, the Crips and the rabbi
Tom Tugend
January 19, 2008
Abraham Cooper has made a point of being present in many of the world\’s hot spots, and, at the same time, managed to stay out of prison. And during roughly the same time span, he has played a key role in creating one of the most activist Jewish organizations in the world, working outside the boundaries of the traditional organized community structure.\n
Don’t dismiss Iran Holocaust conference as harmless fringe elements
Menachem Z. Rosensaft
December 21, 2006
Even Borat, the bumblingly anti-Semitic comic character, could not have contrived a more absurd and utterly offensive assemblage: David Duke, erstwhile Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, alongside Robert Faurisson, the French pseudo-academic who argues that the Holocaust never happened, accompanied for dramatic effect by a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews whose anti-Zionist fanaticism motivates them to desecrate the memory of millions of murdered Jews.
Finding Deeper Truths in Fiction — the Best About Israel
Alana Newhouse
September 7, 2006
One should read Israeli writers, of course — Agnon, Amichai, A.B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, Orly Castel-Bloom, Etgar Keret. But the more appropriate template may come from fellow Americans, writers who, by exploring the Diaspora Jew\’s relationship to Israel, have gone down this road before.
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