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News Briefs / Obituaries

Outreach Pioneer And Longtime Jewish Press Columnist Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Passes Away

By Jason Maoz

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, pioneer in Jewish outreach, founder of the international Hineni organization, and Jewish Press columnist for more than fifty years, passed away Tuesday at the age of 80.

Interviews and Profiles

Rebbetzin Of The World: An Interview with Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis

By Naomi Klass Mauer

"The idea of bringing people back to Yiddishkeit was inside me from my childhood days."

Op-Eds

An Attack On Torah And Tradition

By Rabbi Yehoshua S. Hecht

AJC, the Federations and others seek to undermine the Chief Rabbinate in Israel.

Jewish / Politics / News Briefs

US Jewish Groups Work to Sign People Up for Health Care

By JTA

American Jewish organizations are going to bat for ObamaCare and are using social media to reach as many people as possible in an effort to convince them to sign up for health care under the Affordable Care Act. During Tuesday’s Jewish Community Day led by the left-leaning National Council of Jewish Women, or NCJW, Jewish […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Liberal Jews Praise Gay Protection Law, Orthodox

By JTA

An array of liberal Jewish groups lauded the U.S. Senate for passing a bill that would extend federal anti-discrimination protections to gays. “Today’s bipartisan Senate passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act is an overdue and historic accomplishment in our nation’s effort to end workplace discrimination for the LGBT community,” Reform clergyman David Saperstein, the director […]

Middle East / Levant / Jewish / US / Politics / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Kerry Briefs Jewish 'Leaders' (Cheerleaders?) on MidEast Talks

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Secretary of State John Kerry met with what the Jewish Telegraph Agency described as "Jewish leaders" to "brief" them on the resumption of Israeli-Arab Palestinian talks on Thursday evening, August 8. Although the briefing was off the record, the JTA quoted unnamed attendants who said several things. First, that the meeting was dominated by Kerry's […]

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter III

By Ruchama Feuerman

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