Jewish Senator Bids For US Presidency

JERUSALEM POST — March 21, 2006
Russell Feingold the Democratic senator from Wisconsin immediately raised his public profile here this past week when he stood up in Congress demanding that President George W. Bush be censured over his domestic eavesdropping program which Feingold considers illegal.
His proposal – a congressional action that has only been used once [...]

Meretz the Winner…At Queens College, TA University

JERUSALEM POST — March 21, 2006
Meretz may not win more than a few seats in the March 28 elections but at Queens College last week the social democratic party’s campaign to gain new first-time voters had an entire room of American Jewish college students giggling.
The mailer which asks, “Are you ready for your first time?” [...]

Jewish Theological Seminary Students Struggle With Movement’s Delay On Gay Rabbis Marriage

JERUSALEM POST — March 12, 2006
The flyer with Jay Michaelson’s young, serious face underneath the word “MISSING” lay on a table at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the premier rabbinical school for the Conservative Judaism movement in America.
Michaelson, as the leaflet explained, is a graduate student in religious studies at the Hebrew University, a writer [...]

The Shadow That Never Went Away

FORWARD — March 10, 2006
If the Oedipal complex didn’t exist, we might have to invent it to explain the frustrated, stunted career of Yaacov Herzog. A shadow hovered over him from the day he was born — his father, Isaac Halevi Herzog, was the brilliant chief rabbi of Palestine (and later, Israel) from 1936 to [...]

Hillary Clinton Tells Supporters of Bar-Ilan that Hamas Must Be Isolated

JERUSALEM POST — March 7, 2006
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton dressed in cap and gown and saying her mother always wanted a doctor accepted an honorary degree from Bar-Ilan University Sunday night.
The ceremony was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan.Some 300 people attended the black-tie evening marking the university’s 50th anniversary.

The Personal Allure of Religion

JERUSALEM POST — March 3, 2006
What would make someone like Allan Leicht – a successful Emmy-award winning television producer of the sitcom Kate and Allie and a typically non-religious American Jew – suddenly decide in the middle of his life to start keeping kosher praying three times a day studying Torah and resting on Shabbat?
Was [...]

Anti-Semitism Suspected In Brooklyn Murder

JERUSALEM POST –  March 1, 2006
A member of the Lubavitch community of Crown Heights Brooklyn was shot to death in his car Monday night.
It is unclear whether the incident was anti-Semitic in nature. The local Jewish Community Council has offered a reward of $ 10 0 for any information that leads to the arrest and [...]