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Emerging Leadership Project Graduating Class of 2012

Engaging the Next Generation...our Future is in Good Hands

Meet the Winners of the 2012 Robert S. & Ceil N. Levy Young Leadership Award!

Shaina Rappoport and Andrew R. Comiter Honored With the 2012 Robert S. & Ceil N. Levy Young Leadership Awards

Enthusiasm and Encouragement Highlight 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting

Opportunities, challenges and dreams to fulfill lie ahead for our next 50 years

From Radio Host to Guest Reader

Radio personality -- and father of three -- Kevin Rolston visits local elementary school

Breaking News

Society of St. Pius bishop blames Jews for antagonism

A bishop for a traditionalist Catholic breakaway group said the relationship between Jews and Christians is a fundamentally antagonistic one.

Arno Lustiger, historian and Holocaust survivor, dies at 88

Arno Lustiger, a Holocaust survivor and historian who put a spotlight on Jewish resistance against the Nazis, has died.

Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld oldest to receive British fiction prize

Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld became the oldest person to win the coveted Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

05/16/2012

Americans Angry Over Female Broadcast Limits

Members of Israel’s Second Authority for Television and Radio have received hundreds of e-mails in the last 24 hours demanding an end to practice of “silencing women.” Click here for the rest of the article...

05/16/2012

Ben-Ami: Politicians Fear Pro-Israel Intimidation

Many American senators and congressmen “keep quiet” and refrain from criticizing Israeli policies because they “live in fear” and are “intimidated” by pro-Israeli groups such as the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), according to J Street founder and President Jeremy Ben-Ami. Click here for the rest of the article...

05/16/2012

Florida Family Wins Judgment Against Iran, Syria

The family of a Florida teenager killed in a Palestinian suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria. Click here for the rest of the article...

Arts and Culture

05/16/2012

Taking a Second Look at Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman was brilliant, courageous and, above all, interesting, a new book reveals. Hate her if you must, but don’t reduce her, writes Mark Oppenheimer. Click here for the rest of the article...

05/15/2012

Jews, the Left and the Rest

The visceral responses to a conference on ‘Jews and the Left’ demonstrated the challenges of incorporating the left into Jewish history, and divisions over Israel. Click here for the rest of the article...

05/14/2012

Hunting the Whale

Philologos thought he found a misprint in ‘Moby Dick.’ Turns out, it was a tangled web of errors, unless Herman Melville was a Talmudic scholar in deep disguise. Click here for the rest of the article...

05/14/2012

Whither Art Thou, American Male?

SUMMER FILM: There’s still something so very Jewy about all of Jason Segel’s characters, even if Tom’s the only one who is officially a Member of the Tribe. Click here for the rest of the article...

05/12/2012

Lyrical Voices of Zion

The creation of serious Hebrew poetry in the America of the first half of the 20th century is a well-kept secret. Alan Mintz’s new book examines the little-known movement. Click here for the rest of the article...

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