Amid identity crisis, Conservative Jews pay for rebranding
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
Conservative Judaism is at a crossroads.
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November 20, 2015
Mao’s Jews
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
On Oct. 1, 1967, China’s National Day, Sidney Rittenberg had reached the pinnacle of his revolutionary career.
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg will take two months of paternity leave
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said he will take two months of paternity leave after his daughter\’s birth, though he did not say when she is due.
This is not my America. Is it yours?
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
Two scary tweets fell into my feed yesterday. In the first, Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn mom and activist shared, “When ur kids sends u a text w/ a link to a mayor invoking Japanese internment camps.
#WeAreNext
Rob Eshman
November 20, 2015
The campaign to keep Syrian refugees out of the United States represents a complete lack of faith – not just in Syrian refugees, and not just in the department of Homeland Security, but in America itself.
He’s got a curfew, his computer is monitored, and he’s on GPS– but Pollard may surf the web
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
His every move tracked by GPS, his computers monitored 24/7, his outings subject to a curfew, Jonathan Pollard will nonetheless for the first time be able to enjoy a 21st century indulgence so many others take for granted: Surfing the Internet.
For Chanukah, breakfast latkes two ways
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
I first tasted latkes for brunch at a trendy eatery on the Lower East Side about six years ago.
Reform movement will continue to push for transgender rights
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
On Nov. 5, delegates to the Union for Reform Judaism’s 73rd biennial convention unanimously adopted a resolution on the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming individuals.
WATCH: Searching for hummus in a tense Old City of Jerusalem
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
Filmmaker Harvey Stein talks with Israelis and Palestinians about the current tension in Israel while searching for hummus in Hummus Lina.
Famed Holocaust documentarian making pro-Palestinian film
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2015
Documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls is perhaps best known for his 1969 Academy Award-nominated film “The Sorrow and the Pity,” which raised questions of French collaboration during the Nazi occupation, along with his monumental 1988 biopic “Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie,” which explored the actions of the notorious Nazi as well as the human condition.
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