Esther Jungreis, a pioneer in the Jewish outreach movement and founder of the organization Hineni, died Aug. 23. She was 80, according to the Vos Iz Neias blog.
At 6-foot-6 and 340 pounds, veteran NFL offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz isn’t just a force of nature, but a product of good ol’ Jewish nurture.\n\n
Israeli police cleared opposition leader Isaac Herzog of suspicions of fraud, after questions arose about a contribution made to his successful campaign in the 2013 Labor Party primaries.
A Florida state senator caught up in a boycott-Israel controversy. A Wisconsin state representative who combated anti-Israel bias on his campus.
If physical presence is any indication of the soul, then UCLA Graduate Law Student Milan Chatterjee would rank among those gentle giants of imposing stature, whose softness of speech does not jive with the first impressions that they offer.
One of the most dangerous trends in American life is the increasingly successful attack on the already weakened news media, a trend heightened by Donald Trump’s threat to sue journalists and a billionaire’s in shutting down the scandal site Gawker.
Mel Brooks and the late Gene Wilder — who collaborated in films such as “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein” — had a famously close, decades-long friendship.
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