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Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath To Be Observed At 150 Shuls And Churches

01/18/2013 | Staff Report

As President Barack Obama seeks support for his sweeping gun control reforms, and states enact their own legislation -- including the nation's toughest in New York -- a faith-based coalition is promoting a national Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath.

Latest Jewish Population Data Show Gains In Manhattan, Loss In Suffolk

01/17/2013 | Stewart Ain | Staff Writer

The Jewish population in the Washington Heights/Inwood communities on the northern tip of Manhattan has soared by 144 percent since 2002, while Suffolk County, with a 4 percent decrease in Jews during that time, is the only suburban county to experience a Jewish population loss.

Latest Jewish Population Data Show Gains In Manhattan, Loss In Suffolk

01/17/2013 | Stewart AIn | Staff Writer

Rabbi David Ellenson To Retire From HUC-JIR In 2014

01/17/2013 | Helen Chernikoff | Staff Writer

Rabbi David Ellenson, the president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for more than a decade, will step down from his position as head of the institution that includes the Reform movement’s rabbinical, cantorial and other schools in 2014.

Actor Chuck Norris Endorses Netanyahu

01/17/2013 | Adam Dickter

In a somewhat bizarre turn of events, 1980s action-film and TV icon Chuck Norris has issued an endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Israel does not directly elect its prime minister, but a nominee, generally from the majority party, is named by the president and submitted for approval from the Knesset. Netanyahu is head of the current majority party Likud.

Norris has become something of a popular culture icon in recent years and recently returned to the big screen last year's "The Expendables 2."

Schumer, Boxer, Wasserman-Schultz Back Hagel For Defense

01/15/2013 | JTA

Chuck Hagel added three major Jewish Democrats to his list of endorsers, clearing his way to likely confirmation as secretary of defense.

Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) each said they were satisfied Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, would advance the U.S.-Israel security relationship and would make a priority of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.