By Jacob Kamaras, JointMedia News Service
• Published November 30, 2011
A typical day in the life of Alan Gross entails walking around his room a couple thousand times, push-ups and sit-ups, and reading. He doesn't have access to kosher food, and if he sees something moving on his plate he pushes it away. That's the description...
By URIEL HEILMAN, JTA, DENVER
• Published November 9, 2011
After a decades-long partnership that saw the Jewish Agency for Israel serve as the official, exclusive Zionist arm of North America's Jewish community federations, the federation system is getting ready to date other partners. But Jewish Agency officials...
By Dan Klein, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published November 2, 2011
When the Jewish Federations of North America sent out a news release last week promoting the top speakers at this year's General Assembly, not a single woman made the list.The oversight caught the eye of critics."Can it really be that the largest meeting...
By Nathan Guttman, FORWARD
• Published August 31, 2011
WASHINGTON - Since mid-July, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated for "social justice" in what have been called the nation's largest protests on domestic issues in recent memory, and organizers promise more. Yet the leaders of most major...
When two-fifths of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate met last week in Washington with representatives of Jewish groups, the senators delivered a clear message: If you agree with us, it's about time you spoke up.The appeal, delivered at an annual meeting...
By Stephen Hazan Arnoff and Steven M. Cohen
• Published July 20, 2011
NEW YORK - JDub Records, the innovative nonprofit Jewish music endeavor that discovered Matisyahu and numerous other artists, released 35 albums, and brought 150,000 participants to concerts and other events, announced last week that it would be closing...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 22, 2011
A local business executive with a history of community and federation involvement has been named as the next president of the Jewish Federation of Greater St. Louis. Bob Millstone, 48, president of the the Millstone Company and grandson of noted community...
By Madeleine Morgenstern, JTA
• Published June 15, 2011
WASHINGTON - In its first partnership with a faith-based community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working with Jewish organizations to expand awareness of suspicious behavior.The "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign will distribute...
As rescue workers continue to search for survivors, Jewish Federation has opened a mailbox to provide emergency assistance to victims of the Joplin, Mo. tornado. Joplin has a small Jewish community of approximately 50 individuals. Its only synagogue,...
Business executive and community leader Bob Millstone has been nominated as the 39th President of Jewish Federation of St. Louis. Millstone will be elected and installed at Federation's Annual Meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 14.Millstone, President and...
By Daniel Treiman, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published May 17, 2011
A foiled plot to attack New York synagogues offered a distressing reminder to the Jewish community that Osama bin Laden's death does not mean an end to the threat of terrorism - especially from so-called "lone wolves."New York police arrested Algerian-born...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published April 27, 2011
In the showdown over the 2012 U.S. budget, Jewish organizations clearly fall on one particular side of the partisan divide: the Democratic one.But as the battle between Republicans and Democrats over spending gets under way, the trick the organizations...
