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Posted in: Changes at Jewish Federations of North America?
News release with specifics at JFNA site. Nu?
Posted in: UJC: Campaign pledges are down
You're comparing apples to oranges with the Canadian numbers. The 2007 figures include Toronto's special Israel Emergency Campaign, which was counted as part of the regular campaign. While the overall "regular" Canadian campaign dollars might have dropped between 2007 and 2008, even if it did it's nowhere near as great as this article suggests.
Posted in: Hank Greenberg, Aviva Kempner, Yom Kippur, Good Friday and opening day
Greenberg did, however, play on Rosh HaShana during the 1934 season. Kempner is correct--Greenberg lived in a different era and played in a far more hostile milieu than did Koufax. America was also in the midst of the Great Depression. Many Jews were still trying to "make it" out of the immigrant ghettos; their status was far from secure.
Posted in: Study: Ethnic identification on the wane, spirituality rising among Jews
The title of this article is somewhat misleading. The report only looked at those who defined themselves as Jews by religion. So of course spirituality is way up and ethnicity way down--look at the Jews that were left out of the sample. The authors clearly note all of this in the report, but the article fails to make this important distinction.
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Updated 02/10/12 @ 12:51PM EST
- Turkey will never endorse a military strike on Iran, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a Washington audience.
- Israel's test of a missile defense system was declared a "major milestone" in its efforts to establish viable barriers to a missile strike.
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the solution to the Iran crisis is "never military."
- The publication of a 2010 photograph showing U.S. soldiers with a logo resembling a Nazi symbol was greeted with condemnations by Jewish groups.
- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
- Holder: U.S. urged Israel not to release killers of Americans
- Turkish FM: We will never endorse striking Iran
- Israeli missile defense test a ‘milestone’
- Sarkozy: Iran solution should be non-military
- Marines’ SS photo condemned by Jewish groups
- Grandson of Auschwitz survivor takes the ice for Germany
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- German city of Wurzburg brings back its long-lost Jews
Posted in: Why are some US Jews so offended by the Israeli ads aimed at expats?
12/05/11 08:05 AM
The reason why many US Jews (not to mention Israelis in the US) were so offended was because...they were so insulting. The whole ad campaign was an anachronistic yet shrill shlilut hagolah exercise, ironic since many academics and politicians in Israel are currently reassessing this entire enterprise. The Yom HaZikaron ad was a perfect example of the outdated...in micro form it is saying the relationship cannot exist outside of Israel. In macro form it is saying the "Jewish" component of the US-Israel relationship can only reside in Israel....highly insulting and tone deaf.