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Rebranding Leonid Nevzlin
Last year philanthropist Leonid Nevzlin was convicted in absentia in a Moscow courtroom to life in prison for ordering the murder of five people. Israel has refused to extradite him, and last week he was playing a lead role in Washington at the General Assembly of Jewish Federations of North America, introducing Prime Minister Netanyahu and taking part in a White House meeting with President Obama. Read more »
What do H & H and B & H have in common?
Two of New York’s iconic stores—H & H Bagels and B & H electronics—are facing legal problems. The New York Times lumps them together, but not in a Jewish way. Which has JTA Editor Ami Eden scratching his head. Read more »
Born in Berlin, figthing for U.S.
CNN interviews JTA contributor Tom Tugend about the experience of being a child in Nazi Germany and subsequently fighting as soldier in the U.S. army. Read more »
Secular studies
Eric Herschthal of The New York Jewish Week reports on the growing debate over efforts to fund Jewish culture through an exclusively secular lens. Read more »
A night with Eli Valley
Eli Valley is a provocative cartoonist who specializes in skewering Jewish organizational sacred cows. He recently took to the stage of Joe’s Pub to offer some insight into what makes him tick. Watch the video. Read more »
Goldman Sachs did what? Maureen Dowd said what?
Maureen Dowd draws heat for a column bashing Goldman Sachs, in which she used the term “blood-sucking bankers” and invoked Jesus’ throwing the money-lenders out of the Temple. Read more »
Conservative movement gives seal of approval to Rubashkin conviction
The Conservative movement is pulling no punches in response to Sholom Rubashkin’s conviction on fraud charges. Read more »
Ari “Hero” Teman: The news, the video
Watch the video interview with Ari Teman, the winner of the first Jewish Community Hero award. Read more »
JTA’s GA panel gets spicy
JTA’s panel at the GA on Tuesday got tense—and then things really exploded in the hallway afterward. Read more »
Rahm Emanuel: The GA video
Watch the video of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel addressing the General Assembly of Jewish Federations of North America. Read more »
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Updated 11/22/09 @ 05:43AM EDT
- The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog encouraged Iran to accept an offer to process its enriched uranium abroad, but also said he opposed additional sanctions if it did not.
- Canada's opposition Liberal Party is crying foul after the ruling Conservatives mailed out flyers extolling themselves as stronger supporters of Israel.
- Israel arrested five Palestinian Authority intelligence officers in the West Bank.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel is conducting secret negotiations with Hamas.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed Thursday in Brazil by a state governor who is Jewish.
- IAEA head to Iran: Accept enrichment offer
- Canadian Liberals object after Conservatives say they’re stronger Israel backers
- Israel arrests five P.A. officers
- Abbas: Israel talking to Hamas
- Abbas welcomed by Jewish pol in Brazil
- South African Jewish leader Mendel Kaplan dies
- Israel will send ship to NATO anti-terror force
- Obama: New Iran sanctions coming within weeks
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
- Obama half-brother has Jewish roots
- Lieberman: Fort Hood could be terror attack
- J Street confab shows generational divide on Israel
- What really happened at the Reform biennial in Toronto
- Rubashkin convicted on 86 charges
- Obama shifts to Israel’s corner, but tries not to show it
- Pro-Israel fliers confiscated at campus speech
