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Op-Ed: Re-engineered United Synagogue has made great strides

United Synagogue’s leader writes that his organization has come a long way from the crisis of three years ago, but some in the media, including JTA, remain wedded to a narrative of decline.

By Steven C. Wernick January 15, 2013 3:48 pm

Oprah goes to the mikvah

Oprah Winfrey made a stop at the ritual bath but didn’t take the plunge. This trip to a Chabad Lubavitch mikvah in Brooklyn Heights (not the “Heights” one typically associates with Chabad) was filmed for an episode of her new series, Oprah’s Next Chapter, which will premiere in January on her OWN Network, her new […]

October 27, 2011 11:21 am

Shvigger me timbers? JTA editor’s Yiddish-speaking pirates

Seasick from the rough waters ahead at the U.N this week? You’re in good company: Today is “International Talk Like a Pirate Day.” In 1927, longtime JTA Editor Aleph Katz gave swashbucklers a Yiddish makeover: [[READMORE]] Long John Silver, the one-legged pirate and seaman of Treasure Island, now speaks Yiddish in a translation of Robert Louis […]

September 19, 2011 3:57 pm

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Op-Ed: Re-engineered United Synagogue has made great strides

Oprah goes to the mikvah

Shvigger me timbers? JTA editor’s Yiddish-speaking pirates

Oscar-nominated JTA president would’ve turned 100 today

JTA’s Oster, Rodman take Rockower Awards

JTA launches online archive with a quarter-million articles

Misunderstanding its mission

Criticism of J Street speakers is unfair

Give J Street its voice

Daniel Schorr, crusading journalist, never forgot his Jewish roots

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