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National News
- Jewish Women Lag Behind Men in Promotion and Pay
- Fiscal Challenges Face Federations
- On Campus, a Divide Over ‘Pro-Israel’
Community News
- In Mayoral Race, N.Y. Jews Back Bloomberg
- Lévi-Strauss: He Changed How We See Culture, but Ignored His Own
- For Pets, a Temporary Shelter From the Storm
International News
- U.S. Eases Pressure on Israel, Leans On Palestinians
- HIAS Still Aids Immigrants, but Most Don’t Resemble Sergey Brin
- Human Rights Watch Debates Its Mission With a Founding Critic
Israel News
- Palestinian Workers Plan To Sue Settlement, Seek To Fall Under Israeli Law
- Losing Support and Suffering Defections, Labor Party Is in a ‘Struggle for Life’
- British Christians Push Repentance for Nation’s Conduct During Mandate
Fast Forward
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
- The Doctor Who Had the Chutzpah To Write Music
- Nine Faiths, One Vegan Lunch at Windsor Castle
- High School Reunion
- Creating an Arab-Israeli Dialogue, One Note at a Time
- Saving Pastrami on Rye
The Shmooze
- First Israeli NBA Player Scores Big
- The Pitselech Are Reviving Yiddish
- Jon & Shmuley Plus Another Media Circus
- Is Your Recipe Worth $25,000?
- Hummus Wars
- The L.A. Times: ‘Jewish Guys Heart Shiksas’
Forward Forum
- The Goldstone Standard
- The World That Jewish Veterans Built
- What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn’t
- Is Birthright Israel an Intermarriage Panacea?
- Calming the Temple Mount
- A Terrorist Who Was Not Alone
Editorial
Talmud vs. Anna Akhmatova
By Jake Marmer
This week’s Torah portion is Parshat Vayera in which Lot’s wife looks back and turns into a pillar of salt. Midrash makes some guesses at the reasons for the punishment, but the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova writes not about events but about what she was feeling as she disobeyed her husband and looked back at the city she had left.Read More
Transforming the Y
Since taking over as executive director in 2007, Stephen Hazan Arnoff has looked to transform the 14th Street Y of the Educational Alliance both conceptually and physically. The first phase of the building renovation reflects the Y’s attempt to use art and design to enhance a sense of community. In this audio slideshow, Esther Sperber from Studio ST Architects discusses the challenges she and her colleague, Guy Zucker of Z-A Studio faced as Jewish architects renovating a Jewish communal space while preserving and enhancing its inclusive mission.Read More
Against Israeli Anti-Mizrahism
By Akin Ajayi
EnviroJews Avant La Lettre
By Jenna Weissman Joselit
Squeezing the Cultural and Historical Juice Out of Love in ‘Jaffa’
By Jordana Horn
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