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This week our homepage features articles about what makes meat kosher. But lately, the focus has been on what makes ...
Diaspora-Israel Relations
Jeffrey Goldberg reports that one source of tension between Ehud Olmert and some Jewish leaders is that the latter “loathe ...
Mergers
Over at the Fundermentalist, Jacob Berkman and the JTA staff have come up with a list of Jewish organizations that ...
Good People Fund
Last year, I blogged about the closing of the Ziv Tzedakah Fund, and I received a letter from one of ...
Duchifat…Gesundheit
If you see a Duchifat in Israel, don’t be alarmed. It’s just the Hebrew word for a Hoopoe, the new ...
Media Matters
Donna Rosenthal gives some examples of the astonishing ignorance of many media figures about Israel. (The Forward) The French Court ...
Hello Again.
Dear Conservative Movement, It’s been a few months since I’ve had to write you a nasty letter, and I was ...
Where’s the Beef?
Much as been written about the ongoing crisis at the AgriProcessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa and the repercussions. JTA ...
Duh.
A recent Haaretz article mentions a new study that found that people believe American Jewish leadership is “elitist, parochial, self-serving ...
Facing Tomorrow — and Yesterday
There were many surreal moments last Wednesday night, when Shimon Peres’ “Facing Tomorrow” conference celebrated the American-Israeli relationship, an evening ...