By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 4, 2012
A few weeks ago, an unsolicited book, “They Thought for Themselves: Ten Amazing Jews,” by Sid Roth, arrived at the homes of an unknown number of St. Louis area Jewish residents. No one seems to know how many copies of the 237-page paperback were...
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The stories – some months or years in the making -- started trickling in last year. Young successful families were showing up desperate. As Bulgaria’s program director for the American Joint Distribution Committee, Julia Dandalova...
As the fourth book of the Torah opens, God orders Moses and Aaron to take a census of the people, specifically those males who are of the age of conscription. The Israelites still have many challenges to face, as they continue their journey from Mount...
By Dan Klein, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published January 11, 2012
It is a strange irony: Jews have been successful in the television business-but Jewish TV, not so much. It's not for lack of trying. Right now, no fewer than three Jewish-focused national cable channels are trying to carve out a viable niche within the...
