Uriel Heilman RSS

is JTA's managing editor, responsible for coordinating JTA's editorial team. He re-joined JTA in 2007 after a stint doing independent reporting in Israel and the Arab world. Before that, he served as New York bureau chief of the Jerusalem Post. An award-winning journalist, he has worked as a reporter for a variety of publications in the United States and in Israel.

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• Report: Josh Block to head The Israel Project

  August 22, 2012 2:21pm

  Will the world be losing its only major friendly, pro-Israel media advocacy group? According to the Forward’s Nathan Guttman, The Israel Project (TIP) is close to announcing that its new CEO will be Josh Block, the former spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). While AIPAC and TIP appear to share similar goals,…

• Jerusalem’s Pamela Weisfeld dies after brief battle with cancer

  August 21, 2012 2:41pm

  Pamela Weisfeld, an Israeli immigrant from New Jersey who became the subject of a social media campaign after discovering last month that she had cancer, has died.

• What Reform Jewry thinks of the Talmud

  August 8, 2012 2:07pm

  In the course of reporting out a story I wrote last week about the Siyum HaShas, the celebration of the completion of the page-a-day Talmud study known as the Daf Yomi, I had an illuminating conversation about Reform Judaism’s take on the Talmud with Rabbi Daniel Freelander, senior vice president of the Union for Reform…

• Film critic Judith Crist dies at 90

  August 7, 2012 9:24pm

  Film critic Judith Crist, a one-time mainstay of the “Today” show and TV Guide, has died at 90.

• Barry Rubin on having inoperable lung cancer

  August 7, 2012 4:57pm

  Middle East expert Barry Rubin, a frequent source for journalists trying to sort through the muddle of this or that development in the Arab world, writes on his blog about dealing with the news that he has inoperable lung cancer. Nothing is stranger than having a normal life and then within a few hours knowing…

• Foxman: I’d consider being head of the Board of Jewish Education

  August 7, 2012 3:17pm

  A few weeks ago, during a session in June at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, issued a call for a five year, $500-million-per-year investment in Jewish education. He then penned an Op-Ed in JTA outlining his vision for the $2.5 billion program, though it was short…

• With poetry and scholarship, Daf Yomi Talmud study grows beyond Orthodox

  August 2, 2012 3:54pm

  The sold-out crowd of 90,000 at the Siyum HaShas celebration at MetLife Stadium was almost exclusively Orthodox, but Daf Yomi Talmud study is beginning to spread beyond the movement and in unorthodox ways.

• 90,000-plus crowd in N.J. cheers Siyum HaShas

  August 2, 2012 11:37am

  Some 90,000 people packed MetLife Stadium to celebrate the completion of the page-a-day Talmud cycle in the largest-ever Siyum HaShas.

• Play by play at the Siyum HaShas

  August 1, 2012 11:29pm

  More than 90,000 people packed MetLife Stadium in New Jersey for the Siyum HaShas, celebrating the completion of the Daf Yomi page-a-day Talmud study cycle, Aug. 1, 2012. (Yisroel Golding/Siyumphotos) More than 90,000 people packed MetLife Stadium in New Jersey for the Siyum HaShas, celebrating the completion of the Daf Yomi page-a-day Talmud study cycle,…

• JFNA: We have no problem with the word ‘Zionism’

  August 1, 2012 9:34pm

  The Jewish Federations of North America umbrella group is denying a report in The Jewish Press that appears to question federation leaders’ Zionist bona fides. It all stems from a diatribe by longtime JFNA critic Richard Wexler, who suggested on his blog that JFNA officials have a problem with Zionism. It might have stayed there,…