http://www.jta.org/user/profile/63378 en-us uheilman@jta.org Copyright {gmt_entry_date format="%Y-%m-%dT;%H:%i:%s%Q"} http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/levin_0/Levin_and_Prosor_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/levin_0/Levin_and_Prosor_m.jpg Ukrainian Jewish leader Alexander Levin, left, and Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, at the U.N. for the launching of the World Forum for Russian Jewry, Jan. 25, 2012. 2012-01-30UTC15:36:31 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/haredim_0/riot_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/haredim_0/riot_m.jpg Young haredi men clash with police in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, Dec. 26, 2011. 2011-12-30UTC19:17:25 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/haredim_0/bail_m.JPG http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/haredim_0/bail_m.JPG Shlomo Fuchs, a haredi Israeli accused of harassing a female soldier for her refusal to move to the back of a bus, is released on bail in Jerusalem, Dec. 30, 2011. 2011-12-30UTC19:15:59 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/clothing_0/hm_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/clothing_0/hm_m.jpg An Israeli crowd throngs the H&M store in Tel Aviv's Azrieli mall for a special sale, Nov. 17, 2011. 2011-12-29UTC19:29:18 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/clothing_0/gap_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/clothing_0/gap_m.jpg Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, right, helps affix a mezuzah during the grand opening of the first store by The Gap in Israel, in Jerusalem's Mamilla mall, Aug. 24, 2009. 2011-12-29UTC19:27:05 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/dreidel_0/dreidel_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/dreidel_0/dreidel_m.jpg With at least 687 dreidels spinning simultaneously, the world record for most Chanukah dreidels spun simultaneously in the same room (541) appears to be topped by Conservative Jewish high schoolers at the United Synagogue Youth's annual international convention in Philadelphia, Dec. 28, 2011. 2011-12-29UTC18:02:57 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/taos_0/Taos11_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/taos_0/Taos11_m.jpg Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico's largest ski area, was started by a Jewish refugee from Germany whose family still owns the resort. 2011-12-22UTC15:49:18 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/urj_1/JacobsURJ_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/urj_1/JacobsURJ_m.jpg Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the incoming president of the Union for Reform Judaism, at the movement's biennial conference outside Washington, Dec. 17, 2011. 2011-12-20UTC21:40:52 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/urj_1/ObamaURJ_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/urj_1/ObamaURJ_m.jpg President Obama addresses the biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism, Dec. 16, 2011. 2011-12-20UTC21:39:47 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/urj_1/URJdance_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/urj_1/URJdance_m.jpg The 2011 biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism was the movement's biggest in history, Dec. 17, 2011. 2011-12-20UTC21:37:26