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Jewish Organizations Pay On Average $66,044, Crowdsourced Survey Finds

03/11/2013 | Staff Report

The average salary of a young employee working at a Jewish communal agency is $66,044, according to a survey released by a group of professionals in that field. The group also found that among factors affecting salary, being a woman lowered average pay, while foundation work is big bucks.

At AIPAC, Pledges Of ‘No Daylight,’ But Worries About The Gaps

03/05/2013 | Gary Rosenblatt | Editor and Publisher

Israel is imperiled, facing an existential threat from Iran, caught up in a rapidly and dramatically changing Mideast that is becoming more dangerous every day, and fighting an insidious international delegitimization battle.

Conservative Rabbi Offers 'Trial Balloon'

03/04/2013 | Gary Rosenblatt | Editor and Publisher

When one of the country’s leading Conservative rabbis states publicly his discomfort with a major policy of the movement, it warrants attention and consideration.

DvF And The Holocaust Memorial Museum

03/04/2013 | JTA

Diane von Furstenberg takes a seat at her long, farm table-inspired desk inside her office on the fifth floor in the Meatpacking District here. The studio is so vividly colored, so overly patterned and so decked out in exotic tchotchkes, von Furstenberg is one of the few people who could possibly occupy it.

Steve Lipman's Jewish Spin

02/27/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

During a visit last week to relatives who live in the Houston area, the big news story there – besides the grossly overhyped NBA All-Star game at the Toyota Center – was the Carnival Triumph. That’s the cruise ship that drifted for several days in the Caribbean Sea.