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is JTA's senior writer and former managing editor. Follow him on Twitter at @urielheilman

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• Is food writer Mark Bittman going kosher?

  January 14, 2014 10:45am

  The New York Times columnist wants you to cut down on meat, impose value-based restrictions on your diet and boycott Pepsi.

• Sharon’s unfinished business

  January 13, 2014 4:13pm

  Would Ariel Sharon have replicated his Gaza model of withdrawal in the West Bank?

• RCA backs Avi Weiss (sort of)

  January 6, 2014 11:30am

  The Rabbinical Council of America says it did not cast aspersions on Rabbi Avi Weiss’ commitment to halachah. But amid Weiss’ dispute with the Israeli Rabbinate, is the RCA willing to back Weiss?

• Y.U. landed one of top 10 gifts in 2013

  January 2, 2014 3:51pm

  Despite its financial problems, Yeshiva University made the list of recipients for the top 10 charitable donations of 2013, thanks to a $160 million gift.

• Israeli Rabbinate: Here’s why Rabbi Avi Weiss isn’t kosher enough

  January 2, 2014 3:23pm

  Last fall the Israeli Rabbinate began rejecting the imprimatur of Rabbi Avi Weiss of Riverdale, N.Y., when it came to affirming the Jewishness of immigrants to Israel. Now the Rabbinate is saying why.

• John Podhoretz, Jane Eisner and the brouhaha at the 92Y

  December 17, 2013 12:55pm

  What exactly happened Monday night at the 92Y that prompted Commentary editor John Podhoretz to storm off the stage and get into a spat with Forward editor Jane Eisner?

• Reform Judaism tries for a ‘reboot’ in face of daunting challenges

  December 17, 2013 11:56am

  What do you get when you bring together 5,000 of the Reform movement’s faithful for a conference in sunny San Diego in mid-December?

• Tweeting the Reform biennial

  December 13, 2013 11:30am

  JTA’s Uriel Heilman is covering the biennial convention of the Union for Reform Judaism on Twitter.

• Reform biennial opening to outsiders in bid to revitalize movement

  December 2, 2013 11:45am

  For the first time, the Reform movement’s conference — which will be held next week in San Diego — will be open to participants who are not members of Reform congregations.

• Remembering Rabbanit Bracha Kapach, lifeline to Jerusalem’s poor

  November 26, 2013 10:21am

  From her humble beginnings as a 14-year-old mother, Yemenite immigrant and cleaning lady, Jerusalem’s Rabbanit Bracha Kapach — who died Tuesday at 90 — rose to win the Israel Prize.