http://www.jewpi.com Jewish Press International Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewpi.com/multiplying-an-endowment-1328871007/ http://www.jewpi.com/multiplying-an-endowment-1328871007/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:50:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/multiplying-an-endowment-1328871007/ One Jewish day school in Kansas cut its tuition in half. Another school, in Oakland, Calif., grew its endowment 15-fold. And a third, in Houston, succeeded in recruiting families from as far away as New Jersey, Venezuela and Israel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/larry-greenfield-named-new-head-of-jinsa-1328824230/ http://www.jewpi.com/larry-greenfield-named-new-head-of-jinsa-1328824230/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:50:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/larry-greenfield-named-new-head-of-jinsa-1328824230/ Larry Greenfield, a longtime Republican Jewish activist, was named national executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs in Washington. JINSA President David Ganz made the announcement Thursday. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hebrew-language-charter-school-approved-in-d-c-1328823729/ http://www.jewpi.com/hebrew-language-charter-school-approved-in-d-c-1328823729/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:42:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hebrew-language-charter-school-approved-in-d-c-1328823729/ The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board. The D.C. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/an-animated-affair-1328823166/ http://www.jewpi.com/an-animated-affair-1328823166/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:32:47 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/an-animated-affair-1328823166/ Sisters Reyna and Temma Schaechter Sing Yiddish Songs of Yesteryear Binyumen Schaechter warned me about the January 22 DVD launch of “When Our Bubbas and Zeydas Were Young — The Schaechter Sisters on Stage”: “Even though you’ve got reserved seats, Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/looking-back-february-17-2011-1328822413/ http://www.jewpi.com/looking-back-february-17-2011-1328822413/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:20:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/looking-back-february-17-2011-1328822413/ 50, 75, 100 Years Ago in the Forward 100 Years Ago in the Forward When Barnett Nemeth went to open his safe in his jewelry store on Manhattan’s Broome Street, he was surprised when two men rushed him, held a revolver to his head and said: “Hands up! We want a look in that safe. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/womens-roundtable-abortion-in-israel-representing-women-1328821818/ http://www.jewpi.com/womens-roundtable-abortion-in-israel-representing-women-1328821818/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:10:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/womens-roundtable-abortion-in-israel-representing-women-1328821818/ Getty Images Hand in Hand: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, right, walks with her friend Gabrielle Giffords, after Giffords resigned from Congress to focus on her recovery, January 25, 2012. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-9-2012-1328808369/ http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-9-2012-1328808369/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:26:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-9-2012-1328808369/ Getty Images Dramatic Entrance : ‘Millionaire Matchmaker’ Patti Stanger makes a bold fashion statement for heart health as part of the Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection 2012 Fashion Show at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. (And yes, that’s fashion designer Marc Bouwer fiddling with her hem. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/palestinian-unity-may-turn-to-reality-1328793498/ http://www.jewpi.com/palestinian-unity-may-turn-to-reality-1328793498/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:18:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/palestinian-unity-may-turn-to-reality-1328793498/ To understand the new unity agreement between the two Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, it helps to recall the story of the village beggar and his cake. It happened once that the village beggar asked the rabbi for a ruble to buy some food. An hour later the rabbi saw the beggar in the market, [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-charities-oppose-salary-cap-1328792890/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-charities-oppose-salary-cap-1328792890/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:08:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-charities-oppose-salary-cap-1328792890/ New York Jewish charities are lining up against a new rule aimed at curbing executive salaries at not-for-profit organizations that get state funding, even though it likely won’t affect any Jewish groups. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/do-jews-curse-the-christians-1328792288/ http://www.jewpi.com/do-jews-curse-the-christians-1328792288/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:58:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/do-jews-curse-the-christians-1328792288/ Cursing The Christians? A History of the Birkat Haminim By Ruth Langer Oxford University Press, 388 pages, $74 During a year studying medieval liturgical manuscripts, Ruth Langer found herself drawn to places where words, phrases and even a whole Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/its-kosher-to-accept-real-jesus-1328791692/ http://www.jewpi.com/its-kosher-to-accept-real-jesus-1328791692/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:48:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/its-kosher-to-accept-real-jesus-1328791692/ Kosher Jesus By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Gefen Publishing House, 263 pages, $26 Despite Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s best efforts in “Kosher Jesus,” some Jewish teachers and their messages are not worth reclaiming. Whether because of their fanciful interpretations of the Bible or their odd religious agendas, they are best ignored. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/recruiting-from-long-distance-1328791086/ http://www.jewpi.com/recruiting-from-long-distance-1328791086/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:38:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/recruiting-from-long-distance-1328791086/ One Jewish day school in Kansas cut its tuition in half. Another school, in Oakland, Calif., grew its endowment 15-fold. And a third, in Houston, succeeded in recruiting families from as far away as New Jersey, Venezuela and Israel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bds-movement-hopes-to-go-mainstream-1328790613/ http://www.jewpi.com/bds-movement-hopes-to-go-mainstream-1328790613/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:30:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bds-movement-hopes-to-go-mainstream-1328790613/ The movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — long painted as a fringe group by the Israel advocacy community — is seeking to wrap itself in the mantle of the mainstream American left. At the movement’s first-ever national conference, presenters and attendees compared BDS to the Montgomery, Ala. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/good-books-1328742394/ http://www.jewpi.com/good-books-1328742394/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:06:34 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/good-books-1328742394/ Letter to the Editor On behalf of PJ Library, a program dedicated to giving the gift of quality Jewish children’s literature to families across North America and doing so at a rate of 95,000 books each month, I would like to respond to Deborah Kolben’s Jan. 31 column. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/giving-back-1328742026/ http://www.jewpi.com/giving-back-1328742026/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:26 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/giving-back-1328742026/ Letter to the Editor For nearly 40 years, the Jewish Communal Fund has been helping our donors achieve their philanthropic goals simply and efficiently. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-8-2012-1328722084/ http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-8-2012-1328722084/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:28:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-8-2012-1328722084/ Getty Images Warm-Up Act? : Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar certainly wasn’t a security threat when she rocked this pair of black skinny jeans at the SiriusXM Studios. But during an appearance on the ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ later that night, she mentioned that Eli Manning’s reps wouldn’t let her say hi to him backstage. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/delta-removes-occupied-territories-from-list-1328713212/ http://www.jewpi.com/delta-removes-occupied-territories-from-list-1328713212/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:00:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/delta-removes-occupied-territories-from-list-1328713212/ Delta Airlines removed the phrase “Occupied Palestinian Territories” from its list of Middle East destinations. The destination “Palestinian Territories” remained on Wednesday after the airline reportedly received e-mailed and tweeted complaints. Links to the site were quickly spread Tuesday via Jewish bloggers. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/iran-if-attacked-u-s-israel-could-be-targeted-1328708888/ http://www.jewpi.com/iran-if-attacked-u-s-israel-could-be-targeted-1328708888/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:48:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/iran-if-attacked-u-s-israel-could-be-targeted-1328708888/ Iran’s military chief told Iranian TV Tuesday that the United States and Israel are vulnerable to retaliatory attacks, if Iran is the target of a military strike. Brigadier General Masoud Jazayer, in an interview with Iran’s Press TV, said that the regime “brushes aside” the United States’ carrot-and-stick approach toward its nuclear program. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hadassah-stumbles-as-centennial-nears-1328701808/ http://www.jewpi.com/hadassah-stumbles-as-centennial-nears-1328701808/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:50:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hadassah-stumbles-as-centennial-nears-1328701808/ Hadassah, the international women’s Zionist organization, is entering its centennial year amid signs of increasing dysfunction. On February 7, the group confirmed that it is investigating allegations that two leading members of the governing board’s executive committee misused charitable funds. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-jew-and-hitlers-bug-1328700013/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-jew-and-hitlers-bug-1328700013/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:20:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-jew-and-hitlers-bug-1328700013/ I should say from the start that I’ve never owned a Volkswagen Beetle. I did learn to drive a stick shift in one of them, somewhere south of Madrid, when it was my turn to drive. Three college pals who were packed into the “Bug” with me erupted in oaths with every mistake I made. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/why-i-filed-a-title-vi-complaint-1328699420/ http://www.jewpi.com/why-i-filed-a-title-vi-complaint-1328699420/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:10:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/why-i-filed-a-title-vi-complaint-1328699420/ Mark Yudof, president of the University of California, claims that two federal complaints against his university, alleging a hostile environment for Jewish students, are without merit. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/navigating-transition-to-middle-school-1328698817/ http://www.jewpi.com/navigating-transition-to-middle-school-1328698817/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/navigating-transition-to-middle-school-1328698817/ One Jewish day school in Kansas cut its tuition in half. Another school, in Oakland, Calif., grew its endowment 15-fold. And a third, in Houston, succeeded in recruiting families from as far away as New Jersey, Venezuela and Israel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/santorum-routs-romney-in-missouri-1328671214/ http://www.jewpi.com/santorum-routs-romney-in-missouri-1328671214/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:20:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/santorum-routs-romney-in-missouri-1328671214/ Rick Santorum handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the Missouri Republican primary on Tuesday, giving a much-needed heartland boost to his underdog campaign, news outlets projected. Santorum had 55% of the vote in Missouri, compared to 25% for Romney and 12% for Ron Paul, with 37% of the votes counted, CNN reported. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israel-foreign-minister-starts-u-s-visit-1328646736/ http://www.jewpi.com/israel-foreign-minister-starts-u-s-visit-1328646736/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:32:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israel-foreign-minister-starts-u-s-visit-1328646736/ Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman began a visit to the U.S. on Tuesday, meeting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry and Republican Senator John McCain. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/komen-official-quits-over-planned-parenthood-flap-1328645890/ http://www.jewpi.com/komen-official-quits-over-planned-parenthood-flap-1328645890/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:18:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/komen-official-quits-over-planned-parenthood-flap-1328645890/ A senior official at Susan G. Komen For the Cure resigned after the organization was embroiled in controversy over its atempt to defund Planned Parenthood. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/top-hadassah-officials-probed-over-funds-1328641112/ http://www.jewpi.com/top-hadassah-officials-probed-over-funds-1328641112/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:58:32 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/top-hadassah-officials-probed-over-funds-1328641112/ Hadassah, the international women’s Zionist organization, is investigating fraud allegations against two top members of its executive board, the Forward has learned. The allegations came in a letter sent to the organization’s board members on January 12 by Larry Blum, Hadassah’s top staff member. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-7-2012-1328638609/ http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-7-2012-1328638609/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:16:49 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-7-2012-1328638609/ Getty Images Harvard Man : Jason Segel shows off his Hasty Pudding Pot, an award bestowed upon him by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest undergraduate theater troupe. The group named him Man of the Year; Claire Danes won the award for Woman of the Year. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/price-tag-suspected-of-defacing-jewish-arab-school-1328617811/ http://www.jewpi.com/price-tag-suspected-of-defacing-jewish-arab-school-1328617811/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/price-tag-suspected-of-defacing-jewish-arab-school-1328617811/ A Jewish-Arab bilingual school and a Christian monastery in Jerusalem were defaced with graffiti on Tuesday in suspected “price tag” attacks carried out by Jewish extremists. “Death to Arabs” and “Kahane was right” was scrawled in Hebrew on a wall outside the bilingual school. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tu-bshvat-a-holiday-in-transition-1328617123/ http://www.jewpi.com/tu-bshvat-a-holiday-in-transition-1328617123/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:18:43 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tu-bshvat-a-holiday-in-transition-1328617123/ Last Tu B’Shvat, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, located on Manhattan’s Battery Place, hosted a musical — “The Hatseller and the Monkeys” — and an arts and crafts event for children. This year, the museum has no nature-themed events on the docket to mark the Jewish new year’s celebration for trees, which begins on the [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israels-silent-march-to-war-with-iran-1328616504/ http://www.jewpi.com/israels-silent-march-to-war-with-iran-1328616504/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:08:24 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israels-silent-march-to-war-with-iran-1328616504/ The atmosphere in Israel is pretty surreal these days. The whole world seems to be asking whether we’re going to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities this year — the whole world except this Israeli part of it. There is zero tension in the air, and awfully little interest in the subject as far as I can [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/when-a-familys-struggle-goes-viral-1328615773/ http://www.jewpi.com/when-a-familys-struggle-goes-viral-1328615773/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:56:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/when-a-familys-struggle-goes-viral-1328615773/ When Seth and Hindy Poupko Galena asked readers of their Eye on Ayelet blog to say the Asher Yatzar blessing, I looked it up and, for the first time in my life, recited it — not after going to the bathroom, as it is traditionally said, but in front of my computer. I’m not particularly [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hamas-steps-up-activities-in-west-bank-1328566715/ http://www.jewpi.com/hamas-steps-up-activities-in-west-bank-1328566715/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:18:35 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hamas-steps-up-activities-in-west-bank-1328566715/ Hamas has been making concerted efforts in recent months to renew its activities in the West Bank, Israeli security officials note. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/adelson-could-shift-support-to-romney-1328534406/ http://www.jewpi.com/adelson-could-shift-support-to-romney-1328534406/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:20:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/adelson-could-shift-support-to-romney-1328534406/ Jewish-American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson may shift his support from Newt Gingrich to Mitt Romney in the race for the White House, according to a report in The New York Times. Adelson, the world’s 16th wealthiest person, and his wife Miriam donated $10 million last month to Winning our Future, the pro-Gingrich super PAC. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/lets-do-coffee-cousin-carrie-1328527209/ http://www.jewpi.com/lets-do-coffee-cousin-carrie-1328527209/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:20:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/lets-do-coffee-cousin-carrie-1328527209/ Although writer and actress Carrie Fisher and I have never met, we are related in that four-degrees-of-separation way that many Jews and half-Jews are — that is, my maternal great-aunt was married to her paternal great-uncle. I doubt that Ms. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/dishing-some-linguistic-dirt-1328526629/ http://www.jewpi.com/dishing-some-linguistic-dirt-1328526629/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:10:29 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/dishing-some-linguistic-dirt-1328526629/ Lewis Kupperman writes, “There is a Yiddish expression meaning to make mincemeat of someone or something that sounds like to make ‘ushenblottie,’” and he wants to know if I’m familiar with it. Mr. Kupperman’s “to make ushenblottie” is Yiddish makhn ash un blote — that is, “to make ashes and mud” of a person or [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/making-day-school-affordable-1328525896/ http://www.jewpi.com/making-day-school-affordable-1328525896/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:58:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/making-day-school-affordable-1328525896/ One Jewish day school in Kansas cut its tuition in half. Another school, in Oakland, Calif., grew its endowment 15-fold. And a third, in Houston, succeeded in recruiting families from as far away as New Jersey, Venezuela and Israel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/anti-semitism-still-high-in-germany-1328525409/ http://www.jewpi.com/anti-semitism-still-high-in-germany-1328525409/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:50:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/anti-semitism-still-high-in-germany-1328525409/ Germany is still haunted by its Nazi past. Some 20% of residents in the country that gave rise to the Holocaust still harbor anti-Semitic attitudes, according to a recent study sponsored by Germany’s own government. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bds-leader-end-game-coming-in-mideast-1328462411/ http://www.jewpi.com/bds-leader-end-game-coming-in-mideast-1328462411/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:20:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bds-leader-end-game-coming-in-mideast-1328462411/ Philadelphia — A prominent Palestinian rights activist said Saturday night that the recent fury around the first national conference advocating a boycott of Israel, being held at the University of Pennsylvania, signifies that the Mideast conflict is at an “end game. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/christian-hymns-salve-jewish-soul-1328445606/ http://www.jewpi.com/christian-hymns-salve-jewish-soul-1328445606/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:40:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/christian-hymns-salve-jewish-soul-1328445606/ About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing. Considered a type of American roots music, Sacred Harp music consists of four-part a cappella harmonizing of Christian hymns. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/poverty-in-america-a-crisis-ignored-1328445014/ http://www.jewpi.com/poverty-in-america-a-crisis-ignored-1328445014/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:30:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/poverty-in-america-a-crisis-ignored-1328445014/ Poor Jews, the saying goes, are middle-class Jews without money. The unstated assumption is that the conventional cultural standards of the middle class are not displaced by a “culture of poverty” when Jews tumble down the class ladder. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/pro-peace-group-barred-from-leading-hebron-tours-1328444310/ http://www.jewpi.com/pro-peace-group-barred-from-leading-hebron-tours-1328444310/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:18:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/pro-peace-group-barred-from-leading-hebron-tours-1328444310/ Tel Aviv — A year ago, Israel’s Education Ministry launched a program to encourage schools to visit Jewish sites in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron, drawing fire from doves who charged the ministry with bringing politics into school trips. The doves’ effort to stop the program failed. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/escape-from-williamsburg-1328443816/ http://www.jewpi.com/escape-from-williamsburg-1328443816/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:10:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/escape-from-williamsburg-1328443816/ Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots By Deborah Feldman Simon & Schuster, 272 pages, $23 Deborah Feldman’s memoir, “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,” begins with Feldman describing her father, a Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/romney-cruises-to-easy-win-in-nevada-1328424131/ http://www.jewpi.com/romney-cruises-to-easy-win-in-nevada-1328424131/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:42:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/romney-cruises-to-easy-win-in-nevada-1328424131/ Mitt Romney cruised to an easy win in the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, cementing his position as frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, news outlets projected. Romney had 42% of the votes, compared to 26% for Newt Gingrich with just under half the precincts reporting. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jews-get-special-caucus-in-nevada-gop-race-1328380329/ http://www.jewpi.com/jews-get-special-caucus-in-nevada-gop-race-1328380329/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:32:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jews-get-special-caucus-in-nevada-gop-race-1328380329/ Observant Jewish voters will participate in a special caucus in today’s Republican contest in Nevada, where polls show Mitt Romney is far ahead. The caucus at a Jewish school in Las Vegas will take place after sundown Saturday, long after other caucuses have ended, the New York Times reported. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ban-ki-moon-worried-about-peace-deadlock-1328379491/ http://www.jewpi.com/ban-ki-moon-worried-about-peace-deadlock-1328379491/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:18:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ban-ki-moon-worried-about-peace-deadlock-1328379491/ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is worried by the collapse of the Middle East peace talks brokered by Jordan and by the Palestinians’ drive for UN recognition. In an interview with Haaretz, Ban said he is concerned by possible damage to various UN institutions if the Palestinian Authority presses ahead with its membership requests to them. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/toddlers-tragic-struggle-jews-going-gop-bibis-win-1328316128/ http://www.jewpi.com/toddlers-tragic-struggle-jews-going-gop-bibis-win-1328316128/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:42:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/toddlers-tragic-struggle-jews-going-gop-bibis-win-1328316128/ In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman about Benjamin Netanyahu’s win in the Likud party primary. Then, editor Jane Eisner stops by to discuss a recent Pew poll that suggests Jew are moving closer to the Republican party. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-3-2012-1328288891/ http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-3-2012-1328288891/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:08:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-3-2012-1328288891/ Getty Images Make Some Noise! : Singer Adam Levine gets the crowd pumped up at VH1′s Super Bowl Fan Jam at Indiana State Fairgrounds, Pepsi Coliseum in Indianapolis. Festivities in the city’s Super Bowl village began ten days before kick-off. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-service-a-catch-22-for-netanyahu-1328275940/ http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-service-a-catch-22-for-netanyahu-1328275940/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:32:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/haredi-service-a-catch-22-for-netanyahu-1328275940/ Army reservists may have been forced to dismantle their “suckers’ compound” due to stormy weather this week, but they did succeed to vent their rage over the draft exemptions given to the ultra-Orthodox in the Knesset. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/fast-growing-charity-funds-raise-issues-1328270166/ http://www.jewpi.com/fast-growing-charity-funds-raise-issues-1328270166/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:56:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/fast-growing-charity-funds-raise-issues-1328270166/ Donor-advised funds are the fastest growing method of philanthropy that you’ve probably never heard of. Nationwide last year, these funds had assets totaling $30 billion. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/follow-the-ethical-guidlines-1328269807/ http://www.jewpi.com/follow-the-ethical-guidlines-1328269807/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:50:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/follow-the-ethical-guidlines-1328269807/ Corporate boards, whether in the for-profit or nonprofit sector, are accountable to the communities for which and in which they operate. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-days-after-1328269220/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-days-after-1328269220/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:40:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-days-after-1328269220/ Editorial The new year begins with a blizzard of stories, reports, analyses and exhortations about the threat of a nuclear Iran and the means — if they exist — to stop it. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/train-more-capable-leaders-1328268606/ http://www.jewpi.com/train-more-capable-leaders-1328268606/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:30:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/train-more-capable-leaders-1328268606/ Executive salaries in the Jewish community — as elsewhere in both the nonprofit and corporate worlds — often correspond very little with the size, complexity or profit of their organizations. Ultimately, it is the board that determines the executive director’s salary. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/create-tax-for-jewish-education-1328268254/ http://www.jewpi.com/create-tax-for-jewish-education-1328268254/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:24:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/create-tax-for-jewish-education-1328268254/ Although the salary gap in the Jewish communal world is not as disparate as that between other workers and corporate CEOs or money managers, it remains substantial. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/skip-the-ads-watch-torah-at-halftime-1328267425/ http://www.jewpi.com/skip-the-ads-watch-torah-at-halftime-1328267425/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:10:25 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/skip-the-ads-watch-torah-at-halftime-1328267425/ Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow thrust religion into the consciousness of football fans everywhere this year by famously taking a knee and bowing his head in prayer on the field. And while his prayers caused their fair share of controversy, not everyone thinks mixing football and religion is such a bad thing. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hire-and-pay-fairly-and-equally-1328266813/ http://www.jewpi.com/hire-and-pay-fairly-and-equally-1328266813/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hire-and-pay-fairly-and-equally-1328266813/ The problem of income disparity in the world of Jewish organizations comes down to the question of value. There is nothing wrong with CEOs being well paid if they are doing extraordinary work on behalf of their mission and constituencies. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/federations-escort-ethiopian-jews-to-israel-1328232739/ http://www.jewpi.com/federations-escort-ethiopian-jews-to-israel-1328232739/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:32:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/federations-escort-ethiopian-jews-to-israel-1328232739/ Seventy-one Ethiopians arrived in Israel accompanied by lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jews-shift-toward-gop-survey-claims-1328218327/ http://www.jewpi.com/jews-shift-toward-gop-survey-claims-1328218327/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:32:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jews-shift-toward-gop-survey-claims-1328218327/ Jewish support for the Republican Party has grown dramatically since 2008 nationwide, a new national survey suggests. The GOP crowed over the results. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/looking-back-february-10-2011-1328208192/ http://www.jewpi.com/looking-back-february-10-2011-1328208192/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:43:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/looking-back-february-10-2011-1328208192/ 50, 75, 100 Years Ago in the Forward 100 Years Ago in the Forward A resident of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Freda Levinson, 19, decided to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend, William Kaufman, also from the Lower East Side, after, she claimed, he reneged on a promise to marry her. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/march-of-the-living-reception-hosted-by-israel-ambassador-1328207428/ http://www.jewpi.com/march-of-the-living-reception-hosted-by-israel-ambassador-1328207428/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:30:28 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/march-of-the-living-reception-hosted-by-israel-ambassador-1328207428/ “We do it every year, like Exodus,” said Malcolm Hoenlein , executive vice chairman of the Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at the January 17 March of the Living reception. The reception was hosted by Ron Prosor , Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-2-2012-1328206684/ http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-2-2012-1328206684/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:18:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/chosen-images-february-2-2012-1328206684/ Getty Images Final Countdown : New York Giants Chairman Steve Tisch staves off pre-game jitters with a Super Bowl Pep Rally Luncheon at Michael’s in New York City. He’s been quoted as saying that the team’s underdog status will actually be an advantage in the match-up against the New England Patriots. Read More »]]> 0