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Conference explores steamier side of shtetl life
Life in the shtetl wasn’t all Shabbat candles and milking cows, says a growing group of scholars focusing on sex and gender roles in Yiddish literature and film. Read more »
What really happened at the Reform biennial in Toronto
Reform in Canada. No sex at the table. Tony Blair in film. Tweeting holiday services. And other tales from the biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism. Read more »
Reform leader urges followers to adopt Jewish dietary practice
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, called on Reform Jews to develop consciously Jewish and ethical food policies for themselves and their congregations, stopping short of embracing kashrut. Read more »
Hillel groups responding to hate acts by bringing together campus communities
Jewish students, faced with anti-Semitism or vandalism, have come up with some creative responses that involve the entire campus community instead of retreating into fear and isolation. Read more »
Reform biennial to focus on Israeli Arabs, interfaith dialogue
A newly restructured and slimmed down Union for Reform Judaism will focus on interfaith relations and the rights of Israeli Arabs at its five-day biennial convention in Toronto. Read more »
Project documents stories of Jewish refugees from Arab countries
New oral history efforts are telling the stories of hundreds of thousands of Jews living in North Africa and the Middle East who were victimized and persecuted -- and in some cases forcibly expelled from their homelands -- from the 1940s through the 1970s. The goal is to replicate what Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation Institute has done for Holocaust survivors. Read more »
Jews of color come together to explore identity
As their numbers grow, mixed-race Jewish families are facing the same question often put to interfaith families: Is there a need for separate programming? The answer, judging by the growth in the field, seems to be yes. Read more »
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Updated 11/20/09 @ 11:30AM EDT
- 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.
- Prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist Mendel Kaplan has died at the age of 73.
- 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
- What should we bring? Thanksgiving foods that travel well
- 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
- Sniffing underwear and other high jinks in satire on intermarriage
