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is JTA’s Associate Director of Outreach and Partnerships and coordinates presentations and advertising/marketing opportunities for the news agency. A digital archives enthusiast, Adam has authored more than 300 blog posts for The JTA Archive Blog and was responsible for its social media presence and weekly newsletter, This Week in Jewish History. Adam has presented at several conferences in the form of game shows, interactive social media campaigns and Powerpoint presentations. Follow him on Twitter: @hypersem

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• Skip the chuppah, reverend, we’re in a hurry

  February 7, 2013 6:04pm

  Harry Salpeter’s true 1934 love story — about two young Jews in such a hurry to get married that they found a reverend to perform the ceremony — was a hit with JTA’s Jewish Daily Bulletin readers. "How about a reverend?" And to a reverend they went, not knowing his denomination, and they asked him to…

• News anchor’s shiva ‘shlip’-up

  February 6, 2013 3:47pm

  Fox 5 NY anchor Dari Alexander has an unfortunate tongue-twister while reporting the shiva of NYC mayor Ed Koch: [[READMORE]] JTA’s obituary of Koch here. For a timeline of JTA’s coverage of Koch, click here. (h/t Harry Searing)

• HIAS appoints Mark Hetfield as CEO and president

  February 6, 2013 3:21pm

  Mark Hetfield was named president and CEO of HIAS, the global migration agency of the American Jewish community.

• Israeli woman fights Tel Aviv City Hall

  February 5, 2013 3:41pm

  Good Israeli entrepreneurship: electric cars. Bad Israeli entrepreneurship: Tel Aviv municipal workers painting a handicap parking space around your legally-parked car and then towing it. [[READMORE]] Victim Hila Ben Baruch didn’t accept her vehicle’s fate without a fight. Rather than pay $366 dollars in fines and towing fees, she procured security camera footage and posted it…

• How to throw a Jewish historical Super Bowl Party

  February 2, 2013 11:29pm

  From Jewish coaches to Super Bowl anti-Semitism, here are some pro football stories from JTA’s historical coverage, best served with chips and salsa: 1926 Arnold “Arnie” Horween, four-year player and one-year coach with the Chicago Cardinals, is named head football coach at Harvard University. 1934 JTA laments its lack of a sports section as New…

• Figure skater Max Aaron advances to world championship

  February 1, 2013 6:16pm

  Jewish figure skater Max Aaron will represent the United States at the men’s ice skating world championships after winning the U.S. men’s national championship.

• Remembering Ed Koch, as a mayor and Jewish activist

  February 1, 2013 5:16pm

  Ed Koch died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, the day a documentary about his life premiered in New York City. As JTA’s Uriel Heilman and Ron Kampeas note in their obituary of the former mayor, Koch wasn’t shy about being Jewish or sticking up for Israel and other Jewish causes — and that’s how he wanted to…

• People of the Tweet: White House Mazel Tov, Israel Missile Checklist, Putting ‘Bar’ in Bat Mitzvah

  February 1, 2013 12:00pm

  #Israeli Amb. congratulates Denis McDounough on his appointment as the WH Chief of Staff: "A hearty mazel tov 2 my friend & close colleague" — Natasha Mozgovaya (@mozgovaya) January 25, 2013 Water? Check. Radio? Ummm. Gas masks? Ummm yeh somewhere. #Food? I guess. Missiles on #Israel? Could do without thanks.#Syria #Lebanon — Michael Lawrence (@IsraelSpeaker)…

• Gas masks for kids in Israel

  January 30, 2013 8:19pm

  Purim comes one month early for some children in Israel, after a reported attack on a Syrian convey set off a rush for gas masks. As one Twitter user wrote: Crap’s going down in Syria. Speaking of which, just how do they think I’m gonna get my child in this gas mask? #Israel twitter.com/LivingInTelAvi… —…

• Tu b’Shevat harder to spell than Chanukah (Hanukkah?)

  January 30, 2013 3:14pm

  How do you spell Tu b’Shvat, Jewish Arbor Day? Answer wisely, lest you be on the receiving end of an orthographical smackdown.  [[READMORE]] More so than the Chanukah vs. Hanukkah debate, the debate over the Jewish New Year for the trees rages on. Jewish environmental organization Hazon learned this the hard way after defending its…