Community grieves for rabbi and wife
A rabbi and his wife killed in a raging house fire were being remembered for growing their suburban New York synagogue into a major Modern Orthodox congregation and creating a network of close friendships. Read more »
Fighting hate with Jewish humor
Cartoons have become the newest battleground between Jew and anti-Semite. And the Jews are putting anti-hatred on the drawing board. Read more »
Breakthrough for Orthodox women
An Orthodox synagogue in New York has become the first congregation in the United States to employ a female legal expert trained to respond to women's concerns on issues such as sexuality, menstrual cycles and fertility problems. Read more »
Margaret Tishman, 84, dies
Margaret Tishman, a longtime Jewish community lay leader and philanthropist who helped guide the merger that produced UJA-Federation of New York, died at 84. Read more »
Journalist Rifka Rosenwein dies at 42
Rifka Rosenwein, a journalist whose monthly column in the New York Jewish Week over the last seven years chronicled her personal life as a suburban wife and mother and eventually her battle against a rare form of cancer died at age 42. Read more »
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Updated 11/08/09 @ 10:36AM EDT
- A leading Kadima Party member presented a plan to establish a Palestinian state within one year.
- President Obama called on Israelis to continue to pursue peace with the Palestinians in a video message screened during a memorial to Yitzhak Rabin.
- The United Nations secretary-general said he will send the Goldstone report to the U.N. Security Council "as soon as possible."
- Reform Jews should eat less red meat and consider more carefully what food they serve in their synagogues, the movement's leader said.
- Composer Richard Wagner's great-grandson criticized the music chosen to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall because it includes a composition by his "anti-Semitic" great-grandfather.
- Mofaz proposes Palestinian state in one year
- Obama calls for peace in Rabin rally address
- Security Council to receive Goldstone ‘soon’
- Yoffie to Reform Jews: Eat less meat, blog more
- Wagner great-grandson objects to Berlin Wall event music
- Jerusalem mayor: U.S., Israel should improve communication
- Norway drops war crimes case against Israel
- Palestinians try to knock down part of security fence
- Obama’s Nobel, Israel’s problem?
- Jews of color come together to explore identity
- FBI: Alleged spy wannabe asked for Israeli citizenship
- Family likely murdered by professional killer
- New signs that Ethiopian aliyah will resume
- U.S. appetite for Israeli food grows
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
- Attacks on J Street as parley approaches




