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Camps Quietly Serving Special Needs

05/07/2013 | Julie Wiener | Associate Editor

Jewish overnight camps are serving more children with disabilities and special needs than had previously been believed, but are doing little to publicize or market these offerings, according to a preliminary study released last week by the Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC).

A ‘Brownstone’ For Young Jews

05/01/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

One recent afternoon at UJA-Federation’s Manhattan headquarters, three-dozen young Jewish lay leaders spent a few hours discussing how to allocate $200,000 in philanthropic funds.

Secular Lens, Religious Vision

05/01/2013 | Chavie Lieber | Special To The Jewish Week

A woman from Sderot carries her 6-month-old baby while she picks grapes on a kibbutz. Photos by Federica Valabrega

A member of the Breslov sect dances at sunset near her home in Beit Meir, Israel.

Editor's Note: For staff writer Steve Lipman's story about the Gil Cohen-Magen's photography of Mea Shearim and other haredi communities, click here.

Italian photographer Federica Valabrega always believed religious women were oppressed and unhappy.

Secular Lens, Religious Vision

05/01/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

The mechitza at a Mea Shearim wedding. Photos by Gil Cohen-Magen

A lone chasidic man pushing against a bulldozer digging up Jewish graves on the Golan.

In the Jerusalem of his youth, the religious neighborhoods that lay near Gil Cohen-Magen’s secular Kiryat Hayovel in the southwest corner of the capital were foreign territory, just a few hundred yards away.

Getting His Turn At Cardozo, Dershowitz Blasts Carter

05/01/2013 | Gary Rosenblatt | Editor And Publisher

Monday afternoon was payback time for Alan Dershowitz at Cardozo Law School, the scene of a recent award by students to former President Jimmy Carter for conflict resolution.

‘Happier Endings’

05/01/2013 | Gary Rosenblatt | Editor and Publisher

The sudden death of a cousin in Florida several years ago forced Erica Brown, left, the Jewish scholar, educator and writer (and Jewish Week columnist), into the role of spiritual adviser and counselor for her grieving family.