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is JTA’s CEO and editor in chief, responsible for overseeing all aspects of the agency’s operations, including editorial, business, marketing and fundraising. Before joining JTA in the summer of 2007, he served as executive editor of the Forward newspaper and the founding editor of the Jewish Daily Forward Web site. He also worked as an editor of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia.

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• Hey Camp Ramah dudes — in your face!

  July 19, 2013 9:47am

  An Israeli rhythmic gymnast shows the hoopsters at Camp Ramah in the Poconos how to put the ball in the basket.

• Shimon Peres wants Amar’e Stoudemire

  July 18, 2013 11:11pm

  Shimon Peres has always been a man with big ideas. But this is his best one ever… Get Amar’e Stoudemire to play for the Israeli national team!

• Forward publisher resigns from the Claims Conference

  July 15, 2013 10:39pm

  Sam Norich speaks out.

• Video from the new Hillel president: Eric Fingerhut (no, not JTA’s Eric Fingerhut)

  July 14, 2013 7:19pm

  No, not the guy who used to write for JTA from Washington and is now at AIPAC. We mean the former congressman. Here’s the news brief. And check out his I’m-happy-to-be-taking-the-job video statement.

• Hillel taps Eric Fingerhut, former congressman, as CEO and president

  July 14, 2013 7:13pm

  Eric Fingerhut, a former U.S. congressman and leader of Ohio’s system of public universities and colleges, has been tapped to serve as the next president and CEO of Hillel.

• Leona Helmsley trust not so mean to Israel

  July 12, 2013 12:07pm

  Over at the New York Jewish Week, Gary Rosenblatt reports on the $90 million that the Leona and Harry Helmsley Trust Fund has spent on Israel causes. And we’re not talking dog biscuits.

• Camp Tawonga issues statement on deadly accident

  July 3, 2013 9:51pm

  Ken Kramarz, executive director of Camp Tawonga, has issued a statement about the falling tree that killed one staffer and injured four others.

• Nothing gray about it: Bill Gray was good for the Jews

  July 3, 2013 10:02am

  In mourning Bill Gray, the highest-ranking African American to serve in Congress, it should be remembered that during a racially polarized era he talked the talk and walked the walked on black-Jewish relations.

• Reform summer camp hit by lightning (UPDATED)

  June 29, 2013 11:18pm

  The following message was sent out today by Rabbi Mark Covitz, director of the URJ Goldman Union Camp (Camp GUCI) in Zionsville, Indiana.

• What will Eric Cantor do about the Voting Rights Act?

  June 26, 2013 1:55pm

  If you want to know if Congress will pass new legislation to put teeth back into the Voting Rights Act, keep your eye on Eric Cantor.