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Once A Camper, Always A Camper

NEW YORK

Once A Camper, Always A Camper

Conservative movement’s Ramah joins other Jewish youth programs in seeking to re-engage alumni.

Trying Not To Smash The Tablets

NEW YORK

Trying Not To Smash The Tablets

Jewish day schools are increasingly experimenting with iPads in the classroom

Building A Cultural Bridge In Washington Heights

THE ARTS

Building A Cultural Bridge In Washington Heights

Jewish and Dominican teens forming bonds over the Sosúa story.

Hot molten chocolate cakes

THE NOSH PIT

Hot molten chocolate cakes

Stay warm this winter with a hot dessert!

Has The ‘Tough Love’ Rebbe Gone Too Far?

ISRAEL

Has The ‘Tough Love’ Rebbe Gone Too Far?

Rav Aharon Bina has headed a popular Jerusalem yeshiva for diaspora students for many years. But charges of emotional abuse continue to dog him.

Florida GOP Jews Seen Up In Air As Gingrich Surges

NATIONAL

Florida GOP Jews Seen Up In Air As Gingrich Surges

Israel, Iran key issues in advance of next week’s crucial primary.

L.I. Democrat Carolyn McCarthy and Brooklyn-Queens Republican Bob Turner .

JCRC’s Congressional Breakfast Offers Moving Moments

The Annual Congressional Breakfast of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York is normally a tranquil event with few, if any, surprises. A dozen or more members of Congress from both major parties, most from the city and others from nearby suburbs, parade before a packed room sounding much the same note on issues of Jewish concern, especially Israel and the threats facing her.

Cellest Maya Beiser team up with Pianist Pablo Ziegler for "Canyengue, The Soul of Tango."

‘The Tango Is In My Blood’

When Tito Beiser left Argentina in the early 1950s to help start a Galilee kibbutz centered around members of the Argentine chapter of Hashomer Hatzair, he brought a lot of his home with him — food, soccer, Spanish and, most of all, tango.

Celebrate December 2011

Beauty secrets from the Bible, old-world bakery recipes, outdoor weddings in Israel, and more.

Education January 2012

Getting Behind Educational Change
The Technion takes Manhattan; playful Torah videos expanding; new mentoring push for teachers.

Text Context January 2012

Our essayists look ahead, guided by Jewish texts, memory and personal experience, from the futurism of the 1964 New York World's Fair to new ideas about messianism, prophesy and the afterlife.

Gary Rosenblatt | Between the Lines

New Book Frames Debate On Conversion

The issue of who can become a Jew through conversion is controversial and critical to determining the essence of the Jewish character, and as timely as the current headlines from Jerusalem.