jewishbloggers
Blogs
” Israel loves coffee, and so do you,” she hollered, doing her best to attract passers-by to the freebies, which included flyers about the Jewish state’s … Read More »
The Jewish Exponent 
Jewish Exponent News Feed
visit
‘ Israel’s Superman,’ and Place in Mossad
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the assassination in Dubai of top Hamas arms smuggler Mahmoud Mabhouh, but the killing is raising questions about … Read More »
Most Recent Skirmish in ‘Goldstone’ Wars Opens New Front
Nongovernmental defenders of Israel continue to demonize Goldstone. Most recently, Alan Dershowitz likened him to a “moser,” a Jewish traitor deemed in some … Read More »
Federation Killer Given Life
Italian Jewish leaders on Sunday welcomed Pope Benedict XVI to Rome’s main synagogue for a visit they said would help strengthen interfaith relations. Read More »
Communal Leader Rips Into Obama Envoy
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Staff WASHINGTON A major Jewish communal leader is criticizing the Obama administration’s top official dealing with anti-Semitism. Alan Solow, a longtime backer of President Barack Obama and chairman of the Conf… Read More »
Critics Query Motive Behind Apology
Former President Jimmy Carter spoke at Brandeis University in January 2007 amid complaints about his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” Washington Jimmy Carter is asking the Jewish community for forgiveness — and insists that… Read More »
Green Group Sprouts in Synagogue
Germantown Jewish Centre has launched a “Green Mezuzah Havurah,” a new group devoted to sustainability and lessening the carbon footprint of its members. The idea came in part from Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, founder of the Baltimore Jewish E… Read More »
And a Happy New Year — With Old Biases?
Season’s greetings took on a somewhat sour note when I heard a certain salutation amid the jingle bells and paper horns touting a happy new year. “Where’s my husband? He’s at the store, trying to Jew down the owner for a better price.” I… Read More »
Corrections
In the Dec. 24 cover story, ” ‘Emergent’ Trend: Folks Find a Home, Unconventionally,” Riv-Ellen Prell, professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, was mistakenly identified as director of the university’s Center for Jewish… Read More »
Mikveh’s Suddenly Out of Hot Water
After recently spending $10,000 for renovations and upkeep, supporters of the Joseph and Martha Melohn Bucks County Mikvah in Bensalem thought they were in the clear for a time. But a recent notification from the local water department lef… Read More »
From Sea to Shining Sea: The 2000s Proved Tumultuous the World Over
Suicide bombings in Israel were practically the norm for years early in the decade, like this rush-hour scene in 2002 near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. If Jews weren’t seemingly hard-wired to remember everything, especially cala… Read More »
In Brief
Gaza Protesters Stranded in Egypt JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egypt is preventing some 1,300 protesters from around the world from entering the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing. The protesters, from more than 40 countries, are part of… Read More »
Consul: Jews, Koreans Have More in Common Than You Might Think
E. HARRIS BAUMTo many people, Jews and South Koreans couldn’t be more dissimilar. They don’t seem to share such things as language, food, religion, history or geography. Still, that’s not the way E. Harris Baum sees it. “They are a people… Read More »
Women Fight ‘Segregation’ — of Being Relegated to Back of Bus
Demonstrators gathered near the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem in October to protest gender-based segregation on certain buses. Gil Shefler Jewish Telegraphic Agency Three years ago, a 57-year-old grandmother got on a bus in Isr… Read More »
Journeys into the Jewish Diaspora
Sandee Brawarsky For almost a decade, photographer Chrystie Sherman has been traveling to remote Jewish communities, documenting the lives of Jews who have remained in homelands that many other Jews have left. Her powerful and intimate pho… Read More »
Much More Than an Experiment: Being a ‘Do-Gooder’ in N’awlins
RACHEL LEWIS Rachel LewisAs our orientation for Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps came to a close the first week of September, we had just begun the process of navigating the intrigue of New Orleans, its unique Jewish community, and our e… Read More »
Hate Speech Sounded at High School Contest
Anti-Semitic chants were among epithets heard in the second half of a recent basketball game between Lower Merion and Upper Darby high schools. (Photo by Noah Zuares)School officials reacted swiftly after a handful of student spectators utt… Read More »
Do Obama Polls Show ‘Buyers’ Remorse’?
President Barack Obama examines his Nobel Peace Prize medal at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.Photo by Pete Souza/White House Eric Fingerhut Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington · Analysis Opinion polls are… Read More »
Woman Files Law Suit Claiming Discrimination
A Jewish woman in Souderton has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, Clayton H. Landis Company, or CHL Systems, a manufacturing and engineering company also in Souderton. Amy Elsner, the plaintiff, was fire… Read More »
Pope Pius XII: He’s One Step Closer to Sainthood
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jewish groups are criticizing the Vatican’s decision to move forward with the sainthood of the controversial World War II Pope Pius XII. The current pope, Benedict XVI, advanced the sainthood of Pius and the popular Pope… Read More »
Briefs
Gunman Found Guilty of Murder NEW YORK (JTA) — The man who shot up the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in July 2006 was found guilty of murder. A jury on Dec. 15 found Naveed Haq, 34, guilty on all eight counts against him…. Read More »
Carter Issues Apology to Jews
Jason Carter Washington Jimmy Carter is asking the Jewish community for forgiveness — and insists it’s not simply because his grandson has decided to launch a political career with a run for the Georgia state Senate. Jason Carter, 3… Read More »
City to Stay Away From Iran, Sudan
Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter signed into law a measure last week that largely prohibits the city from entering into any contracts with, or holding investments in, foreign-owned firms that do business with Iran or Sudan. The bill wa… Read More »
Gloomy Decade May Have Passed, but Fight Goes on Against J2K Virus
Some relevant scenes and faces, good and bad, from the past 10 yearsJTA staff; 9/11 photo: Andrew Coulter Enright, Creative Commons Ami Eden Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York · Analysis The arrival of the new millennium prov… Read More »
‘Emergent’ Trend: Folks Find a Home, Unconventionally
Rabbi Sarah Messinger (left) leads a discussion in her home — this one on the holiday of Chanukah — as part of Shireinu, a new group that’s neither a synagogue nor a chavurah.Photo by Greg Bezanis Laurie Adelman Smith had searched fo… Read More »
Clinton Tackles Interdependence Among Nations
Former President Bill Clinton launched Federation’s 2010 campaign. Can the reconciliation now taking place in post-genocide Rwanda serve as a model for Israeli-Palestinian peace? That was the suggestion posited by former President B… Read More »
Obama and Kerry Slow the Push for Sanctions
Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON Unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran are on track, Senate officials say, but taking the slow train. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, needs tim… Read More »
E.U.to Israel: Step Up Pace for Peace Process
Leslie Susser Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM European relations with Israel have taken a hit since the election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), shown last month with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle at the Knes… Read More »
Museum Head Brings Heritage to New Position
The Constitution Center’s permanent exhibition, The Story of We the People Ask David Eisner about the intersection between Jewish teachings and the U.S. Constitution, and he will speak passionately about themes of justice in the Torah,… Read More »
Last Big Reunion Draws 30-Plus Survivors From the ‘St. Louis’
Passengers board the “SS St. Louis” in Hamburg, Germany, in 1939, which ended with the Jewish refugees being turned away from America.U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum/Scott MillerEric Fingerhut Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON Seventy… Read More »