Jewish Groups Praise Health Care Reform Bill's Passage
JTA Jewish Republicans: plan will "worsen our already dire fiscal situation"NEW YORK (JTA) -- Jewish groups are lauding the U.S. Congress' passage of a health care reform bill.On Monday, the morning...
View ArticleTerrorists Likely Targeting Trains, Not Shuls, Says NYPD
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor At Passover security briefing, officials say al Qaeda recruits are sent to attack ‘symbols of capitalism,’ and they often act fast; Iran threat also on radar....
View ArticleScholarships Passed Over
Tamar Snyder With registration for the fall semester just days away and scholarship application deadlines long passed, five future Jewish leaders found themselves scrambling to replace the tens of...
View ArticleSupporting Sofia’s Renaissance
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Five Towns, Suffolk JCCs partner with emerging Bulgarian Jewish community.A letter two years ago from the president of the re-emerging Jewish community of Sofia, Bulgaria, to...
View ArticleKyrgyz Jews hold breath amid upheaval
Anna Rudnitskaya and Uriel Heilman JTA MOSCOW (JTA) – As the capital of Kyrgyzstan erupted in violence Wednesday, members of the Central Asian nation’s small Jewish community held their breath and sat...
View ArticleJoshua Venture Betting On Known Quantities
Tamar Snyder Staff Writer The revamped group’s list of eight fellows, many of them incubated elsewhere, positions it as an advanced-stage funder.Joshua Venture Group, the newly re-launched fellowship...
View ArticleYoung Eyes Capture The World
Sandee Brawarsky Abride prays at the Kotel, seen from behind, in a poufy white dress and cascading veil; someone with tzitzit hanging out of a pair of jeans stands next to a Jewish memorial stone in...
View ArticleBuzz Over U.S. Peace Plan Sparking Jitters
James D. Besser Washington Correspondent Some Jewish leaders fear ‘imposed’ settlement; others see it as only way to break logjam.Administration officials say they haven’t made any decisions — yet —...
View ArticleSiddur It Yourself: BBYO's Build a Prayer Site
When it comes to Jewish prayer, there are two schools of thought: keva and kavannah. Keva means "rote" and refers to the fixed prayers that are set forth in the siddur (Jewish prayer book), while...
View Article5 Up-and coming Jewish Republicans
Politics is never ending, and so is curiosity about the Jews who are running for or who have already attained public office.Let's face it; all but one of the Jews in the U.S. House and Senate are...
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