The prime minister of Montenegro signed an agreement to recognize the Jewish community as an official minority in the country. Prime Minister Igor Lukšić signed the agreement Feb. 2 during an official ceremony held with representatives of the Montenegro...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA
• Published February 2, 2012
NEW YORK -- With day school tuition fees on the rise, New York housing costs among the highest in the nation and the job market still tough, the Orthodox Union has a solution for Orthodox Jews under pressure: Move to Houston. In a first-of-its-kind partnership...
NEW YORK -- A Jewish environmental group persuaded 33 Jewish organizational leaders to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent within three years. The signatories to The Jewish Environmental and Energy Imperative pledged as well to promote...
By Yehuda Meshi-Zahav
• Published January 30, 2012
JERUSALEM -- The recent violence in Beit Shemesh and Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood has led me to speak out against the so-called "sikrikim" in the harshest possible terms, equating their actions to terrorism. Sikrikim is the name given to a fringe...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published January 25, 2012
One of the most memorable events during my long career at the Jewish Light took place in July of 1978 at the home of the late Rabbi Menachem Zvi Eichenstein and the late Rebbetzin Renee Eichenstein. That's when the two invited internationally noted sex...
The suspension of Amsterdam's chief rabbi for signing a statement on "curing" homosexuality is "verging on fascism," a committee of Orthodox Jews told a Dutch newspaper. The Committee for the Declaration on the Torah Approach to Homosexuality said in...
NEW YORK—A Jewish former employee is suing the non-profit Jewish organization Na'amat for religious discrimination. Marshall Garvin, 65, in his lawsuit filed Monday in Bronx Civil Court in New York claimed that his boss at Na'amat did not let him leave...
Barnard College was cleared of charges that a professor discriminated against an Orthodox Jewish student by steering her away from a class. The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights on Jan. 11 notified Barnard that it had halted its investigation...
JERUSALEM -- Haredi Orthodox Jews clashed with police in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. Some 200 protesters gathered in Shabbat Square Sunday afternoon after six respected members of the haredi Orthodox community were arrested for tax offenses....
The cascade of condemnations started pouring in almost as soon as the Israeli TV report aired. Its subject was an 8-year-old girl harassed by Haredi men on the way to her Modern Orthodox girls' school in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh. The Israeli...
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson
• Published January 4, 2012
On March 16, 1968, soldiers of the 1st Battalion's Charlie Company committed one of the most notorious war crimes in American history when they brutally massacred over 300 villagers in the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Was every soldier in the American...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 14, 2011
Rabbi Gilad Kariv believes Reform Judaism holds the key to reviving the moderate center in Israel, which many commentators in recent years have noted may has been hollowed out and lost to extremists. "I strongly believe Reform Judaism can be one of the...
