The Israeli politician who crafted a controversial bill that would consolidate control over conversion in the office of the Chief Rabbinate has said that he never promised to hold off on pushing it through – and that whether it passes is of no concern to American Jews.
Reform Rabbi Galia Sadan plays several roles in the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism: She is rabbi of the Beit Daniel synagogue in Tel Aviv, coordinator of the Council of Progressive Rabbis and director of a conversion school at the Beit Daniel Center. The school, she says, converts about 200 people annually. Sadan, like many Reform and Conservative rabbis, is a native Israeli, despite both denominations\’ image as comprised primarily of immigrants from the United States and Europe.
The greatest threat to US-Israel relations has nothing to do with a secret American peace plan, settlement construction, a new Intifada, another Arab oil boycott or Palestinian civil war. It is religious extremists — Jewish not Moslem.
Lawyers reportedly have filed a case in Morocco to arrest senior Israeli officials involved in the Gaza war.
Jewish comic book writer Harvey Pekar, who chronicled his life in the autobiographical \”American Splendor\” series, has died.
On Tuesday, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) will be holding its annual meeting in New York. Proceedings will be overshadowed by the recent exposure of a massive misappropriation of funds, which will be regarded as one of the ugliest Jewish organizational financial scandals in our time.\n
Israel razed several buildings, including an inhabited Palestinian home, in eastern Jerusalem.
Areas of Russia that were not under Nazi rule are faring better economically even today than areas that were occupied, according to a new study.
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.