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is JTA’s CEO and editor in chief.

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• Edgar Bronfman: Prince of the Jews

  December 23, 2013 11:22am

  JTA’s CEO and editor in chief remembers a man whose combination of lineage, eccentricity and love of the Jewish people set him apart from other mega philanthropists.

• Jon Stewart and Mort Klein agree: Obama is full of it

  November 6, 2013 10:49am

  Sign that your presidency is in danger of losing all credibility: Both the ZOA’s Mort Klein and “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart are declaring that you can’t be trusted.

• Michael Bloomberg wins inaugural $1 million Genesis Prize

  October 21, 2013 12:49am

  Like he needs the money.

• Foundation for Jewish Culture closing — Part II

  September 16, 2013 7:38am

  Clearly there were budget factors at work in the FJC’s decision to close, but it’s hard not to respect a board that takes stock, votes to close and declares victory with millions in the bank.

• Don’t blame the Jews, Israel edition (and what’s up with that Alon Pinkas quote?)

  September 10, 2013 11:00am

  As AIPAC heads to Capitol Hill, Israel worries about being seen as dragging the United States into the Syrian conflict.

• Birmingham shul: No talking Alabama football on Yom Kippur

  September 9, 2013 10:17am

  The Reform movement is generally thought of as the least stringent of the three major denominations when it comes to Jewish ritual observances and Sabbath-related prohibitions. But try telling that to Alabama football fans at Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham.

• Don’t blame the Jews

  September 4, 2013 10:23am

  You can agree or disagree with Jewish groups on Syria, but they are a sideshow. This is Barack Obama and John Kerry’s war. Well, really Assad’s. But you know what I mean.

• Did you hear the one about the Presbyterian managing editor of a Jewish newspaper?

  September 3, 2013 10:53am

  My pasts collide as the Philadelphia City Paper taps Forward alum to be editor.

• Online bullying and Israel

  August 29, 2013 11:38am

  At a time when Israel is looking for allies in the fight against boycotts, it might help if some pro-Israel right-wing columnists could tell the difference between friend and foe.

• Fifty years ago, Rabbi Joachim Prinz also gave a pretty good speech

  August 28, 2013 10:27am

  Shortly before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” address, it looked like Rabbi Joachim Prinz had stolen the show with his own speech. If you want insight into why so many American Jews are liberal, take a read (and listen).