White House 'dismayed' by Israel's planned expansion of neighborhood in East Jerusalem
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement on Tuesday expressing official disapproval of plans to build 900 additional units ...
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Former Agriprocessors manager found guilty on 86 counts
A Sioux Falls, So. Dak., jury returned to the courtroom late Thursday afternoon and found former Agriprocessors manager Sholom M. ...
When type became bullets
Robyn Stoller Awend’s exhibition of letterpress prints is inspired by renowned Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A Yiddish ...
Zev Aelony, Civil Rights Movement activist, dies
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Nearly 50 years before the United States elected a Black president, Zev Aelony dedicated himself to the ...
JTS chancellor ponders the Jewish future
Arnold Eisen, the new head of the Jewish Theological Seminary, will speak at Adath Jeshurun on Nov. 18, as part ...
Shootings at Ft. Hood and Seattle
President Obama told some 15,000 people gathered for a memorial service at the Ft. Hood army base on Tuesday that ...
Rep. Betty McCollum raps Israeli ambassador for being no-show at J Street's first national conference
Minnesotans attend J Street gathering in Washington, D.C. J Street, the new kid on the American pro-Israel advocacy block, recently ...
Balloon boy, climate change and ‘renegade Jews’
As this issue of the Jewish World goes to press, the Larimer County district attorney in Colorado is still pondering ...
Remembrance: Rabbi Max A. Shapiro, Temple Israel’s spiritual leader for three decades and a force for social uplift and interfaith understanding
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The prelude and recessional music at the Oct. 20 funeral service of Rabbi Max A. Shapiro was ...
Critic: ‘A Serious Man’ seriously underachieves in Jewish authenticity, box office receipts
Writing in Haaretz, Uzi Silber says that the new Coen brothers film is tone deaf in the Jewish department, and ...
