Jewish News

From TorahMusings:

▪ Rabbis Address Brain Death Issues
▪ Those killer website comments
▪ Yeshiva fair is a bastion for Jewish books of the printed variety
▪ Interior Ministry gets tough on int’l Orthodox conversions
▪ Army Geirus – Psak of Rav Amar with comments by Rav Ovadiah Yosef
▪ 70 rabbis protest arrest warrant against Rabbi Dov Lior
▪ SALT Friday
▪ Liberal Denominations Face Crisis as Rabbis Rebel, Numbers Shrink
▪ Out of Egypt
▪ Politically-connected supermarket sparks $2M food fight
▪ The Gentle Synergy of Believers
▪ Jews take 5 of top 6 spots in annual list of top US givers
▪ Chief Rabbi calls for tax support to married couples
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Verapo Yerape – Journal of Torah & Medicine from Albert Einstein College of Medicine Vol 1
▪ Veteran newspaperman Seth Lipsky reminisces on his career
▪ After cancer, biblical scholar James Kugel considers religious belief
▪ Hebrew charter proposed for Harlem-Upper West Side
▪ Hebrew immersion at Bergen County charter school
▪ A rabbi gets a helping hand
▪ The Old New Jews
▪ Proposal for an international Sanhedrin (to be called the Elders of Zion?)
▪ Haredi ads: Internet causes cancer
▪ Knesset convenes for first-ever Jewish Identity Day
▪ Gay Orthodox Shabbaton was like ‘Heaven’
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ R. Avi Shafran on Jewish peoplehood
▪ Draft Strategic Plan for the New USCJ (PDF)
▪ Rabbis debate moment of death
▪ Rabbis backtracking on support for N.J. charter school
▪ Rabbi Dov Lior agrees to be investigated at his home
▪ Online Courses, Still Lacking That Third Dimension
▪ Ohio atheists attend church for social reasons
▪ SALT Tuesday
▪ Close encounters of the fabricated kind
▪ Lakewood, N.J.’s fastest-growing town, is defined by its diversity
▪ Rabbis oppose Jewish “Taliban Women”
▪ US Conservatives respond to dwindling numbers
▪ Jews Restore Synagogues as Syria Burnishes Image