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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 »
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 »
Seventy-one Ethiopians arrived in Israel accompanied by lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America. Read More »
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 »
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 »
“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 »
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 »
The New York Police Department is caught up in a tangled spat with the city’s Muslim community and assorted liberal groups over counter-terrorism measures that seem to have crossed the line into rank anti-Muslim bigotry. Read More »
Editorial Why Planned Parenthood has become Public Enemy No. 1 for a vocal segment of conservative America remains a mystery to us. Read More »
Tourists thronged New York City’s Times Square over the holiday period. Some had come to take in the sights, others a Broadway play and still others the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were to be found in temporary residence at Discovery Times Square (“More than a museum”), on West 44th Street. Read More »
The month of January saw the highest number of rainy days in one month on record in Israel, according figures from the Israel Meteorological Service. Read More »
Scarlett Johansson, Reid Hoffman, Joan Rivers, Simon Helberg Read More »
A searchable database of Holocaust-era property records has reached more than two million records. Read More »
The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles awarded some $200,000 in grants for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and financial literacy programs. Read More »
Former U.S. Olympian pole-vaulter Jillian Schwartz will represent Israel at this summer’s Olympics. The Illinois native said immigrating to the Jewish state increased her chances of competing at the London games. Read More »
Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, will visit Iran. Read More »
Iran’s leadership has shown itself more willing to carry out attacks on American soil, the U.S. intelligence chief told Congress. Read More »
Want to know where ultra-Orthodox groups in Israel get money? Shmarya Rosenberg writes they are funded by kosher certification businesses and Satmar Hasidim in Brooklyn. Read More »
Davos Shabbat is one of the toughest tickets in a tough-ticket town. It’s a stunning gathering of 250 Jewish and non-Jewish leaders, from Sheryl Sandberg to Ehud Barak. Read More »
Four years ago, Florida Jews fretted that Barack Obama might be a radical Muslim. Those concerns are rarely heard today, replaced by worries about his policy towards Israel. Read More »
Mitt Romney found his voice in Florida and got a big win to prove it. He’s the frontrunner again and he’s got another chance to turn out the lights on his opponents. Read More »
Mitt Romney thumped Newt Gingrich in the Florida Republican primary after a bitter battle in which both men attacked one another with negative advertising. Read More »
The 19-year-old man charged in attacks on two northern New Jersey synagogues confessed to the crimes, prosecutors said. Read More »
Ezra Glinter writes he was not expecting ‘Old Songs,’ Leonard Cohen’s first album of new material in eight years, to be any good. Read More »
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a live Facebook chat with web surfers from the Arab world. Read More »
Daniel Radcliffe, Lauren Greenfield, Frank Gehry, Fred Savage, Leigh Silverman, Jon Favreau Read More »
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the “Holocaust denier-in-chief,” American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris in Greece. Read More »
A prominent Austrian politician has reportedly referred to members of his far-right Freedom Party as “the new Jews. Read More »
Iran offered to extend a visit by nuclear inspectors. Read More »
‘5 Broken Cameras’ tells the story of Palestinian life under occupation, mostly through the lens of a family’s everyday life. It brought a Sundance Film Festival audience to its feet. Read More »
What to do when a Knesset colleague tosses water in your face? You write a poem, slyly referencing her private parts. Philologos gets to the bottom (oh, dear!) of the debate. Read More »
In the early days of Princeton Review, roughly half of the test prep company’s employees were Jewish. Even now, many companies in the field have Jewish founders and tutors. Read More »
Simms Taback and Russell Hoban, two popular Jewish children’s book authors, died only days apart last December. Deborah Kolben says her daughter’s bookshelf won’t be the same. Read More »
Right-wing Israelis accuse Knesset member Ahmad Tibi of glorifying suicide bombers. He insists he praises civilians killed by Israeli forces. Read More »
Republican voters prepared to go to the polls Tuesday in the Florida primary after a campaign in which the candidates paid scant attention to the Sunshine State’s 500,000-strong Jewish community. Read More »
You really need to find a way to cope with our harsh northern winters. Foremost, Lady Luck must help you land a good winter coat, and to my delight she did just that for me last year. Read More »
President Bill Clinton will receive the Tikkun Olam Lifetime Achievement Award of the Jewish Federation of Arkansas. Read More »
A California synagogue asked movie star Mel Gibson for a donation, suggesting it would remedy his reputation regarding Jews. Read More »
A $2.5 million gift from the David Berg Foundation will be used to establish a rare books room at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Read More »
Lea Michele, Natalie Portman, Daniel Radcliffe, Jonah Hill, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Mayim Bialik Read More »
More than two-thirds of cancer patients who were prescribed medical marijuana to combat pain are reportedly satisfied with the treatment, according to a comprehensive study conducted for the first time in Israel. Read More »
The casino company owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been under federal investigation for the last year for alleged bribery of foreign officials, ABC News reported over the weekend. Read More »
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday that Iran is only one year away from producing a nuclear weapon. Read More »
Neoconservatives can espouse Jewish values as much as progressives can. Judaism is too broad a term to be of use in political philosophy, Polymath columnist Jay Michaelson writes. Read More »
Disunited and unskilled in the ways of Washington, exiled Syrian dissidents are urging the Obama administration to take an active role in supporting the opposition. Read More »
Uber-Orthodox men have been spitting on less-ultra-but-still-Orthodox girls as young as age 8. Sounds a lot like the Taliban, writes Lenore Skenazy. Read More »
The moral passion of Solzhenitsyn made Elliot Perlman a novelist. His deeply Jewish sensibility and liberal world view are never so evident as in ‘The Street Sweeper. Read More »
The 19-year-old man charged in attacks on two northern New Jersey synagogues allegedly planned to attack another nearby synagogue. Read More »
Hundreds of high-school students across the country are expected to boycott classes on Sunday in protest at the Tal Law, legislation that allows full-time Yeshiva students to defer their military service. Read More »
A Jewish group is demanding the resignation of a Quebec mayor who said Israel shouldn’t exist. Read More »
An Israeli documentary film won the best foreign documentary category in the prestigious Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, hardly a week after an Israeli feature film was named as an Academy Award nominee. Read More »
Wendy Greuel is the only one of four Los Angeles mayoral candidates who isn’t Jewish. That didn’t stop her from showing up at four synagogues during the High Holy Days. Read More »
Norman Corwin, the writer and radio producer who died last year at age 101, was often dubbed the ‘poet laureate of radio.’ But he was rather more than that. Read More »
Ethiopians in Israel are often barred from buying apartments by restrictive covenants. Such tactics were once used against Jews and blacks in the U.S., Leonard Fein writes. Read More »
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Israel for the failure of the latest round of exploratory peace talks in Amman on Saturday. Read More »
A Palestinian professor and an American colleague embarked on a mission to make sure Israeli and Palestinian school children hear each other’s stories. Read More »
The resort town of Park City is known for many things — among them powdery snow and the Sundance Film Festival. Kosher cuisine, not so much. Until now. Read More »
Staffers discuss Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood. Plus, Newt Gingrich’s prospects in the GOP primary and why he keeps talking about a guy named Saul Alinsky. Read More »
President Barack Obama pledged to combat Holocaust denial in a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read More »
Ehud Barak called for intensified sanctions on Iran at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Read More »
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