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The Jewish obligation to obliterate the glass ceiling on women

Whether in the boardroom or on the 'bima,’ the Jewish concept of 'brit’ demands we provide women equal opportunities to men.
By Rabbi Elianna Yolkut / Jewish World blogger
This day in Jewish history / A blood libel trial that captures the world's attention

The age-old blood libel accusation was thrown against Menachem Mendel Beilis in Kiev in 1911, despite clear evidence that he committed no crime.
By David B. Green

Jewish World News

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square.

New Yorker jailed in Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger's 1990 killing could be freed

A man put behind bars for the 1990 killing of a Brooklyn rabbi was on the verge of freedom Wednesday after prosecutors told a...

By The Associated Press | 05:33 PM | 3

A nun holds a photograph of Pope Francis during a Thanksgiving Mass for the newly elected pope

Pope’s book co-authored with rabbi to be translated into English

A book co-authored by newly installed Roman Catholic Pope Francis and an Argentine rabbi will be translated into English for the...

By Reuters | 03:49 PM

U.S. appeals court hears 'Jerusalem is Israel' passport case

A U.S. appeals court panel heard arguments on whether Americans born in Jerusalem can list Israel as their place of birth on...

By JTA | 02:20 PM | 24

Ravens dismisses NFL season opener on Rosh Hashanah

Original scheduling change rooted in conflict with baseball’s Baltimore Orioles.

By JTA | Mar 20, 2013 | 11:57 AM | 4

Driver in accident that killed ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple charged with manslaughter

Julio Acevedo also was indicted on three new counts of criminally negligent homicide to go along with a lesser charge, announced earlier this month, in the deaths of Raizy and Nachman Glauber, and their newborn son.

By The Associated Press | Mar 20, 2013 | 10:55 AM | 2

Manny Waks as a student at Yeshivah College in Melbourne in 1988.

Former Jewish leader’s sex abuse charges rock Melbourne community

Two years after one man broke the silence on sex abuse in the Australian Jewish community, the aftershocks are still reverberating.

By Dan Goldberg, JTA | Mar 20, 2013 | 10:39 AM | 6

Jewish World Features

Facing the (Passover) music at Yad Vashem

The musical notes to an original Passover melody composed by the former chief cantor of Amsterdam while the city was under Nazi...

By Judy Maltz | 11:07 PM

Male Jews of Thessaloniki are registered

Greece finally commemorates the destruction of Thessaloniki's Jewish community

The organizers of Saturday's march from Thessaloniki's Freedom Square to the old rail yards near the Greek city's port,...

By Anshel Pfeffer | 02:57 AM | 4

Young Greek Jews on a Taglit Birthright tour of Israel.

Rekindling the Jewish flame in young Greeks

When the Nazis began deporting the Jews of Greece to extermination camps, Etty Leon’s grandparents and great-grandparents fled...

By Judy Maltz | 11:45 PM | 2

Divestment movement gaining ground on California campuses

Student senates at three University of California schools have passed resolutions calling on the state's higher education system to divest from Israel, fueling talk of a national trend.

By Dina Kraft | Mar 17, 2013 | 06:35 PM | 24

Jewish U.S. figure skating champ takes a quadruple leap of faith

A strong showing at the World Championships positions Max Aaron, the U.S. men's figure skating champion with a strong connection to Judaism, as someone to watch at next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

By Kathy Rumleski | Mar 17, 2013 | 12:51 PM | 2

Passover without wine? For Jewish addicts, sober seders are a life-saver

Rabbi cites 'pikuach nefesh,' the Jewish principle that saving a life takes precedence over other religious strictures, in excusing alcoholics from the law of drinking wine during the Passover seder.

By JTA | Mar 15, 2013 | 05:37 PM | 2

This Day in Jewish History

This day in Jewish history / The rebbe who met with Freud

Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Lubavitcher rebbe, died on March 21, 1920, at the age of 59.Schneersohn was born on...

By David B. Green | 09:35 AM

This day in Jewish history / Persian Jews given choice: Convert or die

March 19, 1839, is the date that the Jews of Mashhad, Persia, were given the choice of converting to Islam or dying, in an event...

By David B. Green | 06:59 AM | 8

This day in Jewish history / Jews struggle to settle in the New World

On March 18, 1655, Johannes Megapolensis, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church living in New Amsterdam, wrote to the senior...

By David B. Green | 08:19 AM

Fears of leavened water to pause pumping from the Kinneret this Passover

By Eli Ashkenazi | 08:48 PM

Spanish town preparing first Passover seder in 500 years

By JTA | 08:49 PM | 7

Kosher wine evolves from cheap syrup to collectible vintage

By The Associated Press | 10:12 PM | 10

Rabbis' Round Table

A Passover meter for measuring freedom

By Rabbi Micah Peltz / Jewish World blogger | 11:27 PM

Coffee, Haggadot, and Jewish assimilation

By Rabbi Joel Seltzer / Jewish World blogger | 11:58 AM

Listening to the 'wicked child' who dares to challenge Israeli policies

By Rabbi Gideon D. Sylvester / Jewish World blogger | 02:29 PM | 7

The Jewish Thinker

It’s time to end the slavery of narrow-mindedness

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger | 12:06 PM

Forget the ultra-Orthodox; focus on settlers

By Joel Braunold / Jewish World blogger | 12:14 AM

Moderate rabbis are all around us, even in Israel

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger, Emily Levy-Shochat | 02:45 PM | 9

Jewish World Opinions

Obama at URJ conference - Mozgovaya - Dec. 16, 2011

Obama, affirm the Jewish people's 3,200 year old connection to the Land of Israel

By Rabbi Rick Jacobs | 05:04 PM | 55

Quinoa and Orthodox Judaism's relevancy problem

By Mira Sucharov | 12:57 PM | 2

Slander Israel's critics as anti-Semites, shut down debate on Israel's atrocities

By Larry Derfner | 11:45 PM | 3

Kosher cuisine

Modern Manna recipe / Date, walnut, and red wine charoset

By Vered Guttman | 03:05 PM

Kosher for Passover potato gnocchi with sage and porcini sauce

By City Mouse Online | 12:00 PM

Bringing Jews together through food (never underestimate the power of lox)

By Vered Guttman | 06:41 PM

Portion of the Week

Early 20th-century depiction of the Temple’s altar.

Exposing the ‘true face’ of God / Parashat Vayikra

By Yakov Meir | 09:08 AM

When prophet meets artist / Parashat Vayakhel Pekdei

| 10:29 AM

Dogma and dynamism / Parashat Ki Tissa

By Yakov Meir | 11:11 AM

The Jewish obligation to obliterate the glass ceiling on women

Whether in the boardroom or on the 'bima,’ the Jewish concept of 'brit’ demands we provide women equal opportunities to men.

This day in Jewish history / A blood libel trial that captures the world's attention

The age-old blood libel accusation was thrown against Menachem Mendel Beilis in Kiev in 1911, despite clear evidence that he committed no crime.