Justice Dept. again won’t intervene in Rubashkin case
JTA NEW YORK (JTA) -- The U.S. Department of Justice again has declined to intervene in the sentencing of a convicted kosher meat executive.Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer wrote in a letter...
View ArticleJ Street Ad Responds To Wiesel
(JTA) — J Street is placing full-page ads in Jewish weekly newspapers on the topic of securing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel under a two-state solution. The ad, to be placed in seven newspapers...
View ArticleRubashkin Denies Bribing Postville’s Mayor
JTA (JTA) -- On the eve of the sentencing hearing for Sholom Rubashkin, his lawyers are denying prosecutors' claims that the former kosher meatpacking executive bribed the mayor of Postville,...
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The Spinka Rebbe’s Namesake
Peter Hellman Special To The Jewish Week As the chasidic sect’s leader goes to jail, remembering his great-uncle and a remarkable Holocaust photo album.This week, an undisclosed federal prison will...
View ArticleJewish Agency, JDC Stake Claims In Funding Fight
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Sharansky shifts focus to Jewish identity; JDC, in break, may fundraise on its own.As the Jewish Agency for Israel focuses on a new strategic plan to remain...
View ArticleWith JCall, European Jews Get Their Own J Street Debate
Dinah Spritzer and Toby Axelrod JTA PRAGUE (JTA) -- The launch of JCall has brought the debate that American Jewry has seen over J Street to Jewish Europe: Outside of Israel, how critical in public...
View ArticleWho Speaks for the Jews?
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik Special to the Jewish Week In this period of heightened tensions between the United States of Israel, we seem to have entered into a period of "dueling ads."Lately it seems...
View ArticleIsrael’s Black Panthers Remembered
Eric Herschthal Staff Writer BAM film documents Mizrahi civil rights movement of the ‘70s, though inequities still resonate for Jews from Arab countries.Shortly after Israel’s victory in the War of...
View ArticleSupport Fellow Jews
David Freund After reading The Jewish Week, I have come to the conclusion that this world has turned itself around. Liberal Jews criticize Israel and equate it with Nazi Germany while they support an...
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