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Yeshiva U search committee to propose ex-NYC pulpit rabbi as president
Rabbi Ari Berman has emerged as the search committee’s top candidate to be the next president of Yeshiva University, a source familiar with the process told JTA.\n\n
Ehud Olmert requests early prison release
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially submitted a request for early release from prison, where he is serving a 19-month sentence on a corruption conviction.
Burkini ban is great for business, says Israeli-French maker of modest swimsuits
According to the latest tally, at least 30 French municipalities have banned the product that the Paris-born businesswoman Yardena G. sells for a living.
JTS sells $96 million in real estate, will use proceeds to finance redevelopment
The Jewish Theological Seminary announced it has sold $96 million worth of real estate assets and will use the proceeds to upgrade its New York facility.
David Landau, Haaretz editor and JTA’s longtime Israel bureau chief, dies at 67
David Landau, a British-born Israeli journalist who held top positions at several English-language publications, including JTA, has died.
Sanctions support grows
More than half the U.S. Senate has signed on to a bill that would intensify sanctions against Iran. But in a sign of the so-far successful effort by the White House to keep the bill from reaching a veto-busting 67 supporters, only 16 Democrats are on board.
Technology leading the way to lower-cost day school education
The nondenominational Pre-Collegiate Learning Center of New Jersey doesn\’t have a math teacher. The East Brunswick school instead relies on experienced math tutors who help students work through an online math curriculum relying on outside sources.
Cantor advises Weiner to ‘come clean’ in Twitter flap
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the Republican majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, called on Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) to \”come clean\” about a controversy over a lewd photo. Cantor made his comments in a television interview on Thursday, as Weiner endured a fourth day on the receiving end of questions about a photo of a man in his underwear that was sent from his Twitter account. The photo was sent to a 21-year-old female college student who is a Twitter follower of Weiner\’s.