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Thursday, April 23rd 2009

Has Federation Abandoned Its Central Role'

As we sat at the Passover table reading the haggadah over the recent holidays, the narrative of the...

Services Mean More Than Infrastructure

Having just completed the Passover seders I realize that the attitude with which one asks the...

Enough Already

My good friends Michael Lynton and Gary Ginsberg and I have had an ongoing conversation about...

Jordan Farmar and the Jewish (Hoops) Future

It's the second night of Passover, and Jordan Farmar is warming up under the bright lights of...

JEWBALL

Who knew that basketball has a storied Jewish past, or that a non-sports guy like me would ever...

Reform College Cuts Might Lead to Campus Closures

Due to unprecedented financial distress, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion...
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Wednesday, April 22nd 2009

In their head

New exhibition examines complex issue of women's head covering in Orthodox Judaism and presents...

Wally Marks, Developer, Social Justice Activist, 78

The great Rabbi Leo Baeck, for whom our congregation is named, taught that ?optimism becomes a...

For Chabad.org, failure is not an option

One of world's major Jewish content Web sites in serious financial straits.

HUC may close two of its US campuses

Oldest teaching institution for Reform clergy and educators faces $8 million debt.
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Tuesday, April 21st 2009

House member denies interceding in Israel spy case

California Democrat Rep. Jane Harman says she "never contacted Justice Department about prosecution...

Reform Jewish educational institution struggles with debt

Woes could lead Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to close two of its three US...