Archive for the ‘National News’
Synagogues slowly expanding inclusion to those with emotional, mental disabilities
Synagogues slowly expanding inclusion to disabled
Cleveland Browns draft Jewish lineman
Cleveland Browns draft Jewish lineman
Behind the Flaum settlement, a long campaign and a phone call
By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) — For more than a year, Ari Hart had struggled in his protest against unfair labor practices. Seeking justice for immigrant workers allegedly fired by a Brooklyn kosher food distributor, Hart had held signs, made phone calls, organized protest events and persuaded grocery stores and companies [ Read More...]
America’s first female rabbi reflects on four decades since ordination
By Michele Alperin JointMedia News Service Rabbi Sally Priesand, America’s first seminary-ordained female rabbi, decided at age 16 to pursue her calling. “I always wanted to be a teacher of whatever was my favorite subject,” she tells JointMedia News Service. “In the end, I decided to become a teacher of Judaism.” June 3 will mark [ Read More...]
N.Y. Chasid resorts to hunger strike after nearly a year in Bolivian prison
By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) – Supporters say he’s an innocent man caught up in the tentacles of a corrupt Latin American regime. Authorities in Bolivia, however, allege that he’s a shady businessman with ties to drug dealers and money launderers. What’s certain is that Jacob Ostreicher, a 53-year-old Chasidic Jew [ Read More...]
National Briefs
Orthodox rally for a more kosher Internet (Forward) — A haredi Orthodox mega-rally in New York about the dangers posed by the Internet is in the works. After years of oft-flouted rabbinic bans on Internet use, a group of both Chasidic and non-Chasidic rabbis is pushing a new approach that will be unveiled at the [ Read More...]
No, Adam Yauch wasn’t a yeshiva boy, but we can still claim him
Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch dies
After Mel Gibson-Joe Eszterhas spat, Hollywood Jews standing by Gibson on ‘Judah Maccabee’
Hollywood still defending Mel Gibson
National Briefs
Author, illustrator Maurice Sendak dies (JTA) — Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died. Sendak, who wrote and illustrated more than 50 children’s books, died Tuesday at the age of 83. He reportedly had suffered a stroke on May 4. Sendak grew up in Brooklyn the [ Read More...]
Are Netanyahu and Barak bluffing on Iran, or are they already committed to war?
By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — Has Israel’s game of chicken with Iran jumped the shark? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in recent months have been more explicit than ever about the likelihood of an Israeli strike on Iran to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons capability. [ Read More...]
