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  • Talking elections at policy conference

    February 26, 2008 10:00am

    With the approach of the pivotal March 4 primaries, many of the roughly 400 people attending the JCPA conference, a bastion of liberal Democrats even among Jews, were grappling with the political endgame.

  • Englander’s disappearing act

    July 2, 2007 9:00am

    In his highly anticipated debut novel, “The Ministry of Special Cases,” Nathan Englander uses Jewish characters in Argentina to explore the agony of searching for a missing person.

  • Hamas raids Arafat’s home

    June 18, 2007 9:00am

    Fatah leaders accused Hamas militants of looting the Gaza City home of Yasser Arafat.

  • Protesters picket Nazi’s workplace

    June 18, 2007 9:00am

    One hundred protestors flanked a Rome attorney’s office where a convicted Nazi was beginning his first day of work.

  • Wiesel seeks recognition for activists

    June 18, 2007 9:00am

    Elie Wiesel urged the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to acknowledge the rescue efforts of the Bergson Group.

  • Israeli historian to get German prize

    June 18, 2007 9:00am

    The Frankfurt Book Fair will present its Peace Prize to an Israeli historian.

  • Southerner learns in land of Limmud

    January 21, 2007 10:00am

    Limmud NY brought community delegations from across the country to observe the program with an eye toward transporting the concept to their home communities. One Atlantan thinks it will go over big in Dixie.

  • For JDaters, Caribbean’s a sea of love

    January 16, 2007 10:00am

    A Caribbean vacation at Club Med provided an idyllic setting for a JDate getaway, as the online Jewish dating service increasingly ventures into offline, face-to-face events.

  • Memphis gets modern Orthodox school

    September 13, 2006 9:00am

    Can a prestigious, Orthodox prep school from Manhattan take root in Memphis? The founder of the new Memphis Jewish high school is betting it can.

  • Israel critic defeated in Georgia

    August 10, 2006 9:00am

    Vehemently anti-Israel Rep. Cynthia McKinney lost the race to retain her congressional seat in Georgia, but this time she can’t blame the Jews.