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Will New Hebrew School Model Help Or Undermine Synagogues?

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Will New Hebrew School Model Help Or Undermine Synagogues?

Collaborative Jewish Journey Project recruits pilot cohort, but turf questions linger.

Will Asifa Net Results?

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Will Asifa Net Results?

At Citi Field event, signs abounded that the web is deeply ingrained in haredi life.

Questions Surfacing On Hynes’ Task Force On Witness Intimidation

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Questions Surfacing On Hynes’ Task Force On Witness Intimidation

Critics wonder if new panel on abuse cases will be independent enough; DA may include victims’ advocates.

He’s Going To ‘Graceland’

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He’s Going To ‘Graceland’

N.J. native Mitch Goldstein’s 20-year musical and spiritual journey with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Organizations’ Plans For Succession Seen Lacking

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Organizations’ Plans For Succession Seen Lacking

New study arrives in the wake of sudden resignations of top execs from the Joint, HIAS.

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Education Minister Gideon Saar. (Michael Datikash)

Could A Haredi Draft Help Israel’s Economy?

The argument over military service for the ultra-Orthodox in Israel is generally framed around fairness.

But as the country’s new unity government works to craft a bill to replace the Tal Law for religious exemptions, which expires Aug. 1, some see economic considerations as well.

A Lens For Healing

Seen together, filmmakers Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi could be one of those clichéd “odd couple” pairs so beloved of unimaginative contemporary Hollywood action comedies. Davidi is Israeli, tall, thin, weedy, mercurial. Burnat is Palestinian, shorter, solid, graying and insistently sober in demeanor. The peculiarly theatrical atmosphere of a morning with them is amplified by the central object in the chic quiet of their Midtown hotel — a large cylindrical aquarium filled with exotic fish.

Israel Travel May 2012

Tel Aviv’s push for art tourism, new map helps tourists navigate the Shuk, tourist sites becoming more handicapped-friendly, and more.

36 Under 36 May 2012

The NEXT Jewish Community.
Our fifth annual list of young educators, thinkers, social justice activists,philanthropists and artists reinventing Jewish life.

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

Ruth’s Conversion Would Be Rejected Today

At a time when we are keenly aware of the deep divisions within the Jewish community on issues from religious practice to the policies of the State of Israel, along comes the festival of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, with the most unifying theme in Jewish life: the giving of the Torah, the central, foundational text of our history and people, at Mount Sinai.