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is the CEO & Executive Editor of JTA and its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

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• The new State Department anti-Semitism envoy is…

  May 20, 2013 1:07pm

  Ira Forman, former head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, gets the nod. Ron Kampeas to follow with more details. For now, a few quick thoughts.

• Mel Brooks’ Top 10 Jewy Jewish scenes

  May 20, 2013 11:17am

  To mark the national premier broadcast of the American Masters installment on Mel Brooks, we’ve put together a collection of the master spoofer’s best Jewish clips.

• Nick Saban’s Alabama legacy: 3 BCS titles, a whole bunch of Jews

  May 19, 2013 11:10am

  Tom Van Riper makes the case in Forbes that Nick Saban is worth the mega-millions he is paid to coach football at the University of Alabama. And that’s before you talk about the explosion of Jewish life on campus.

• Futurist: Let’s talk Turkey about Israel

  May 19, 2013 10:29am

  The New York Jewish Week’s Gary Rosenblatt interviews David Passig, a professor at Bar-Ilan University, about his look-into-the-future book “2048.” Buckle up!

• Best Jewish moment for ‘The Office’

  May 17, 2013 3:21pm

  With Thursday night marking the end of The Office, we thought it would be appropriate to say goodbye by honoring the series best Jewish moment.

• Help Rebecca Spence write a novel

  May 14, 2013 9:27am

  I worked with Rebecca Spence way back when at the Forward. Now, lucky me/us/you, she’s started freelancing for JTA. She’s also raising money — to help her pay the bills as she writes a semi-historical novel inspired by her Sephardic Israeli grandmother’s story. Click here for more info on the project (and a video).

• Oldest survivor dies

  May 3, 2013 3:01pm

  Reuters reports that Leopold Engleitner, reportedly the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, has died. He was 107. Engleitner, a conscientious objector whose life was documented in the book and film “Unbroken Will”, was imprisoned in the Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrueck camps between 1939 and 1943. He refused to renounce his Jehovah’s Witness…

• Reading the Bibi leaves

  May 2, 2013 2:59pm

  Prime Minister Netayahu has already declared his support for a two-state solution and for years has been urging the Palestinians to come back to the negotiating table. But his left-wing and centrist critics don’t buy it. They say that Bibi’s real plan is to stall indefinitely while avoiding blame for, well, stalling indefinitely. It’s like…

• Reading the Bibi Leaves

  May 2, 2013 2:39pm

  Prime Minister Netayahu has already declared his support for a two-state solution and for years has been urging the Palestinians to come back to the negotiating table. But his left-wing and centrist critics don’t buy it. They say that Bibi’s real plan is to stall indefinitely while avoiding blame for, well, stalling indefinitely. It’s like…

• Bloomberg gets frisky with NYT

  May 2, 2013 1:09am

  I’m willing to wager that if you polled American Jews on who they would like to be their mayor, Michael Bloomberg would be at the top of the list. Ask them which newspaper most reflects their world view and sensibilities, and I’d bet on The New York Times ranking first. Well, the two are crossing…