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Obama: Palestinians deserve a future, a home, a state of their own (Haaretz)
Jewish GA 2012
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Ambassador Oren rebukes Israel's Jewish critics but calls for new and stronger relationship with U.S. Jewry
At GA closing plenary, Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs says intolerance for dissenting views threatens to tear our community apart.
By Chemi Shalev -
A Birthright hit - the 'niche trip'
Foodies, aspiring entrepreneurs and fashionistas see Israel through a different lens.
By Dina Kraft -
Baltimore’s big names give their Jewish mothers something to kvell about
The city’s long list of prominent native sons and daughters includes Jewish luminaries ranging from oil tycoon Jacob Blaustein to Gertrude Stein and Mama Cass.
By Daphna Berman -
What young American Jews talk about when they talk about Israel
As 'American' becomes code for 'assimilated,' Yehuda Kurtzer of the Hartman Institute is looking to reshape the conversation about Israel among young Diaspora Jews.
By Danna Harman -
A Tale of Two Cities: From Maryland to the Holy Land, a return to Zion
Four Baltimore natives who decided to pack up and make the move.
By Allison Kaplan Sommer -
Some of the weird and wonderful vendors at the GA market place
Kidneys, Karaites, Crohn’s disease and ketubot: The offerings at the annual Jewish General Assembly's marketplace range from the ridiculous to the sublime. But it’s not always easy telling which is which.
By Chemi Shalev -
Reform Rabbi Rick Jacobs: American Jews are 'afraid' to talk about Israel
URJ president also says that because of issues of religion and state such as Anat Hoffman’s recent arrest at the Western Wall, 'North American Jews don’t see an Israel that reflects their core values.'
By Chemi Shalev -
A brief history of Jewish Baltimore
Serving as a demarcation between the North and the South, Baltimore was in many ways a gateway, and its Jewish population quickly soared.
By Daphna Berman -
Jewish organizations more LGBT-friendly than Fortune 1,000 companies
Fifty percent of Jewish groups participating in LGBT inclusion survey receive the highest rating. Still, community leaders say there is work to be done.
By Rutie Zuta -
Wiesel and Sharansky: The triumph of Soviet Jewry, the tragedy of a battle forgotten
At Baltimore General Assembly, the two Jewish icons recount the struggle that defined them and their generation.
By Chemi Shalev -
Beinart: Obama doesn’t think it's his job to stop Israel driving off a cliff
At special Haaretz event at GA in Baltimore, the controversial author said that Bibi got a 'bum rap' for intervening in U.S. elections; and Obama lost Jewish support because 'boogeyman' Sarah Palin wasn’t on the Republican ticket - any more.
By Chemi Shalev -
Obama victory highlights similar plight of Republican conservatives and Israeli liberals
Both seen as representing out-of-touch “white” establishments with privileged past and uncertain future; a second-term Obama presidency could turn things around.
By Chemi Shalev -
What American Jews see in Obama
The vote by many of the Jews in favor of Obama was a protest on their part against the ascendancy of the right in Israel and an expression of anxiety about the future of Israel under a right-wing government led by Likud-Beiteinu.
By Shlomo Shamir -
Annual GA opens in Baltimore, hosting thousands of Jewish leaders from across North America
This year's assembly will focus on digital means of sharing information by Jewish communities; this evening, a special report on the inclusion of LGTB in Jewish communities will be introduced at the GA.
By Rutie Zuta -
No complaints as American-Jewish author Philip Roth calls it a day
The renowned 79-year-old author says his most recent novel will be his last; Roth wrote more than 25 novels and has won multiple prizes for his works.
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Neo-Nazis vandalize German Holocaust monument on Kristallnacht anniversary
On same night as anti-Semitic incident, more than 1,000 people march in a lantern-lit procession against racism and right-extremism.
By Ofer Aderet and DPA -
Moshe Kantor reelected president of the European Jewish Congress
Kantor to serve four more years as leader of European Jewry, receiving 73 percent of the votes.
By Ofer Aderet -
The 'Exodus' effect: The monumentally fictional Israel that remade American Jewry
It's hard to underestimate the impact of this book – along with the Paul Newman film – on a generation of Americans and beyond.
By Bradley Burston -
An unfinished journey from the Holocaust to Israel
Uncovering some heartfelt letters, the children of a Holocaust survivor want to add a new - and tragic - inscription to their mother's grave: "...On their way to the Land of Israel."
By Ofer Aderet -
Holocaust survivors' compensation fund runs out of money, rejects needy applications
The foundation will also stop accepting new applications for reimbursement of medical expenses from some Holocaust survivors this week.
By Talila Nesher -
Kosher certification of Israeli farmers who misuse pesticides may be revoked
The Chief Rabbinate’s warning came as the Israel Union for Environmental Defense found high levels of 105 different pesticides in fruits and vegetables, a third of which are banned in Europe.
By Aimee Neistat -
Sibling rivalry: American Jews spar over the meaning of the Jewish vote
Obama won some 69 percent of the Jewish vote, according to exit polls – which is either a big drop, a small drop, or no drop from 2008, depending on whether you ask Republicans or Democrats.
By Dina Kraft -
Is the new group that shows the IDF as do-gooders all it seems?
New movement, Zionists Breaking the Silence, is a response to groups who criticize the IDF, but others stand to benefit.
By Shay Fogelman
