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Some needs for your DIY sukkah project: gloves, goggles, lumber and schach. And don't forget the duct tape.

Raising sukkahs and consciousness the DIY way

Some needs for your DIY sukkah project: gloves, goggles, lumber and schach. And don't forget the duct tape. (Edmon Rodman) Read more »

Palestinians riot in eastern Jerusalem

September 29, 2009

Palestinians rioted in eastern Jerusalem over Yom Kippur. Read more »

Top Stories

Poll: U.S. Jews back Iran strike, denominations split on Obama

By Eric Fingerhut

A new survey shows that a majority of American Jews would support a U.S. military strike on Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons -- a significant increase from a year ago. Orthodox and non-Orthodox split on Obama administration's handling of Middle East issues. Read more »

Reinharz leaving Brandeis with strengthened Jewish identity

By Jacob Berkman

Jehuda Reinharz took many by surprise when he abruptly announced that he would be stepping down as president of Brandeis University at the end of this academic year. But he and several others close to the university say his departure will not undo the school’s 14-year effort to rebuild its Jewish identity that has occurred under Reinharz’s watch. Read more »

William Safire, N.Y. Times columnist, dies at 79

By Ron Kampeas

The Nixon speechwriter-turned-New York Times political columnist loved Israel and Ariel Sharon, had a memorable makeup column about the ADL's Abe Foxman and seemed to take special pleasure in uncovering the Jewish origins of words. Read more »

Revelations of Iranian plant return nuclear threat to center stage

By Ron Kampeas

The revelation that Iran has a second secret uranium-enrichment plant has led to the most explicit threat in years of tough sanctions against Iran. Read more »

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American Jewish filmmaker Ami Horowitz rushes to the podium at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva on April 23, 2009 to protest before being expelled from U.N. grounds. (Michael J. Jordan) Jen Taylor Friedman, Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg and Dr. Judith Plaskow participate in a panel discussion on Judaism and Feminism at the 92nd St. Y in New York City, April 23, 2009. (Daniel Sieradski) Some of the dignitaries who were among the nearly 10,000 people, primarily young Jews from around the world, protesting the Durban II conference in the March of the Living in Poland on April 21, 2009. (Yossi Selinger) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his fiery speech at the Durban Conference on April 20, 2009. (Michael J. Jordan) Wreats are laid April 19, 2009 in Warsaw during the annual memorial ceremony honoring the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis. (Moshe Milner / GPO / BPH Images) President Obama hosts a Passover seder dinner in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House on April 9, 2009, with friends and White House employees and their families joining the Obama family. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza) Members of the Hevreh of Southern Berkshires and the Berkshire Minyan gather on the grounds of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., on the morning of April 8, 2009 for the Blessing of the Sun, which is recited once every 28 years. (Toby Axelrod) Some 4,000 to 5,000 Jews gather at a Brooklyn, N.Y., intersection in the early morning on April 8, 2009 for the Blessing of the Sun, which is recited once every 28 years. (Leon J. Sternheim / Jewish Herald) Rapper-actor LL Cool J, center, is flanked by Russell Simmons, left, chairman of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and foundation president and founder Rabbi Marc Schneier after being honored by the group. (Foundation for Ethnic Understanding) In this handout image provided by the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), an Arrow anti-missile missile is launched from a testing ground on April 7, 2009 in central Israel. The Defense Ministry confirmed the successful test of the anti-missile system designed to protect the country from attack by Iran. (IAI / BPH Images)

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  • American Jewish filmmaker Ami Horowitz rushes to the podium at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva on April 23, 2009 to protest before being expelled from U.N. grounds.
  • Jen Taylor Friedman, Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg and Dr. Judith Plaskow participate in a panel discussion on Judaism and Feminism at the 92nd St. Y in New York City, April 23, 2009.
  • Some of the dignitaries who were among the nearly 10,000 people, primarily young Jews from around the world, protesting the Durban II conference in the March of the Living in Poland on April 21, 2009.
  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his fiery speech at the Durban Conference on April 20, 2009.
  • Wreats are laid April 19, 2009 in Warsaw during the annual memorial ceremony honoring the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis.
  • President Obama hosts a Passover seder dinner in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House on April 9, 2009, with friends and White House employees and their families joining the Obama family.
  • Members of the Hevreh of Southern Berkshires and the Berkshire Minyan gather on the grounds of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., on the morning of April 8, 2009 for the Blessing of the Sun, which is recited once every 28 years.
  • Some 4,000 to 5,000 Jews gather at a Brooklyn, N.Y., intersection in the early morning on April 8, 2009 for the Blessing of the Sun, which is recited once every 28 years.
  • Rapper-actor LL Cool J, center, is flanked by Russell Simmons, left, chairman of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and foundation president and founder Rabbi Marc Schneier after being honored by the group.
  • In this handout image provided by the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), an Arrow anti-missile missile is launched from a testing ground on April 7, 2009 in central Israel. The Defense Ministry confirmed the successful test of the anti-missile system designed to protect the country from attack by Iran.
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