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New Painting Signed By 26 Jewish Baseball Players

10/16/2012 | JNS.org

(JNS.org) -- In the midst of the Major League Baseball playoffs, an artist came out with a new lithograph painting that depicts 27 Jewish baseball players and contains the signatures of 26 of them — all except the late Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg.

Remembering Specter, ‘A Tough Jew’

10/16/2012 | Ron Kampeas | JTA

Washington — During his 30 years in the clubby confines of the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter never lost his acerbic prosecutorial zeal, friends and associates say.

The insistent questions, the commitment to independence that made the longtime Pennsylvania senator a critical player in recent U.S. history, ultimately did in his career. In his 2010 bid for a sixth term, Specter lost the support of both Democrats and Republicans.

Sheriff Prevents Fistfight As Sherman-Berman Race In Ca. Gets Ugly

10/12/2012 | JTA

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) put his arm around the much older Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and challenged him to a physical fight during a heated debate.

The two Jewish Democrats, pitted against each other in a suburban Los Angeles district because of redistricting, have fought a bitter and expensive race.

The debate Thursday at Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley grew heated when Sherman sought to push back against Berman's claims of leadership on a number of bills popular in the district.

'Jewish Indiana Jones' Bound For Prison

10/12/2012 | JTA and Staff

The odd case of the self-styled, globe-trotting "Jewish Indiana Jones" took a sad turn Thursday when Rabbi Menachem Youlus was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for fraud.

From PJ To Posters

10/11/2012 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

In the weeks after Sukkot, a staff meeting at the Shorefront Y in Brighton Beach will begin with a dozen employees of the Brooklyn facility looking at a few posters.

A Guide To Living A Serious Jewish Life

10/11/2012 | Jonathan Mark | Associate Editor

At a time when denominational walls seem to be growing ever higher, the new religious guidebook from the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly is meant for all “contemporary Jews,” not necessarily just Conservative ones.