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

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• Lifting the veil on the science of counting Jews

  January 29, 2014 11:48am

  JTA takes a look behind the curtain of how Jewish population studies are conducted and finds KitKats, Coke and women.

• ZOA’s mixed (up) messages on Israel

  January 28, 2014 3:17pm

  Is an errant news release from ZOA a sign that Mort Klein’s subconscious is trying to tell us something?

• Reform Judaism with a Latin flavor takes root in Florida school

  January 28, 2014 10:22am

  As Latin American immigrants flock to Miami, one institution has reinvented itself to offer Latin-flavored Judaism.

• SAR tefillin policy just the tip of the iceberg for Orthodox women

  January 23, 2014 12:03pm

  The announcement this week that SAR, a modern Orthodox high school in New York, is allowing girls to lay tefillin is helping expose an increasingly sharp fault line within Orthodoxy.

• 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?