Spending the summer at Jewish overnight camp once was a spartan affair, often little more than a collection of ramshackle buildings scattered in the woods by a placid lake.
President Obama\’s new gun control proposals drew broad Jewish communal support.
Two major Jewish groups are at odds over the prospect of penalties for the Palestinians in the wake of their enhanced U.N. status.
A video in support of President Obama produced by the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman will begin airing in Florida.
Reform Jewish leaders are calling for an investigation following reports that an Israeli colleague was roughed up by police after leading a women’s prayer group at the Western Wall.
Israel\’s Sephardic chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar, said in a Rosh Hashanah message that it is better for a Jew to pray by himself than with Reform Jews.
Reform and Conservative rabbinical leaders called for increased gun controls in the wake of a spate of shootings.
President Obama\’s chief of staff, Jack Lew, met with leaders of the Reform and Reconstructionist movements.
In case you haven’t heard, Orthodox Judaism has pretty much taken over Jewish life on U.S. college campuses. I say this not because I’m smug and happy about it, but as a wake-up call to the Conservative and Reform branches to get their acts together.
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