Talking To Conservative Rabbis: What’s In A ‘Movement’?
Julie Schonfeld Special To The Jewish Week Since the beginning of January, I have been on a tour of North America and have seen over 400 Conservative rabbis face-to-face or conducted extensive phone...
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Parceling Out The Passover Story
Niche publishing comes to the Haggadah. Steve Lipman Staff Writer Wed, 04/13/2011In a trend that has been growing in recent decades, the publishing industry – which has brought printing into everyone’s...
View ArticleCommunity Not Safer, But Better Prepared
Stewart Ain Staff Writer On eve of 9/11 anniversary, talk of guns in synagogue as terror threat seen to be growing.Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, the Jewish community is not any safer but is better...
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Slava Rubin, ‘Crowdfunding’ for startups, nonprofits.
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Tue, 05/22/2012Slava Rubin, 33Twitter: @gogoslavawww.indiegogo.comBorn in Minsk, Belarus, Rubin came to the U.S. with his family as a child. They settled at first in...
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Rebecca Missel, Bringing together New Jersey Jews without a community.
Gabriela Geselowitz Editorial Intern/ARTS INTERN Tue, 05/22/2012Rebecca Missel, 32Twitter: @JerseyTribewww.jerseytribe.orgRebecca Missel grew up mostly in Mesa, Ariz., a predominantly Mormon city with...
View ArticleA Community Pulling Apart?
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher UJA-Federation faces steep challenge in light of new data.The new 10-year study of the Jewish population of New York presents a major challenge to UJA-Federation,...
View ArticleSweeping Changes To Jewry Seen In N.Y. Population Survey
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Orthodox births fuel population jump as numbers of poor rise; Reform, Conservative decrease. Where is the center?Older, poorer, more Orthodox and more balkanized.The findings...
View ArticleBrokedown Palace
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor Unity increasingly elusive in Jewish New York.Once upon a time there was Jewish unity.Not all of the time, perhaps not even most of the time, certainly not in the...
View ArticleDemographics Put Pressure On Communal Groups
Jerome A. Chanes Special To The Jewish Week Jews are more religious, Jews are poorer, Jews are less educated, Jews are less affiliated. So tell me something I don’t know.read more
View ArticleWhy ‘Jewish Community’ Is Harder To Define, And Serve
Gary Rosenblatt Editor And Publisher Only about 2 percent of the respondents to the New York Jewish Population Study are “Jewish by conversion.” Twice as many people — 5 percent of the study —...
View ArticleMandela, Apartheid And The Jews
Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg Editor’s Note: A shorter version of this essay was published in the Dec. 13 issue of The Jewish Week. Nelson Mandela’s death evoked a worldwide outpouring of respect and...
View ArticleCreative Accommodations: Including People Who Are Deaf In The Jewish Community
Editor's Note: Alexis Kasher, the current president of the Jewish Deaf Resource Center, recently shared her personal experiences and perspectives on inclusion for people who are deaf in the Jewish...
View ArticleFrance’s New Chief Rabbi Calls For Inclusiveness
RNS Paris - France’s newly elected chief rabbi has vowed to pursue a path of inclusiveness and restore the confidence of the country’s half a million Jewish community, badly shaken by anti-Semitic...
View ArticleRuderman Family Foundation Names Inclusion Award Winners
The Ruderman Family Foundation announced today the five winners of the third annual Ruderman Prize in Inclusion. The Prize honors organizations worldwide who operate innovative programs and provide...
View ArticleRespond Positively To Good News Among Arabs And Muslims
Hillel Levine When missiles and bombs are flying, while terrorists kidnap and murder, when civilians are caught in the crossfire, and when diaspora Jews and Palestinians are vilified and attacked,...
View ArticleJewish Flavor At Climate March
Steve Lipman Photos By Hazon Several hundred members of the Jewish community got a head start on High Holy Days shofar blowing on Sunday — sounding a Jewish alarm, so to speak, about the issue of...
View ArticleNew Hillels Director Coming Home, Sort Of
Merri Rosenberg Westchester Correspondent Rachel Eden Klein hopes to attract the disengaged to her four county campuses. Never mind that Rachel Eden Klein, the new executive director for the Hillels...
View ArticleMixed Message On Mixed Marriage
Moshe Phillips, Benyamin Korn Members of the Board, Religious Zionists of America Gary Rosenblatt reports in his column, “At Year’s End, Struggling To Stay Together” (Sept. 19), that at a recent...
View ArticleOutside Looking In: Inclusion From A Different Perspective
Permit me to challenge you to look at inclusion from a different perspective. I think it is time to stop viewing inclusion as a chesed — an act of selfless kindness — to benefit only the individual...
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