http://www.jta.org/user/profile/72301 en-us lauren.greenberg@tufts.edu Copyright {gmt_entry_date format="%Y-%m-%dT;%H:%i:%s%Q"} http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/texas-cheerleader_0/texas_cheerleader2_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/texas-cheerleader_0/texas_cheerleader2_m.jpg Michelle Lewis, a pre-med student, is the first Jewish cheerleader for the NFL's Houston Texans. 2010-08-11UTC19:41:16 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/giving-challenge_0/Gates_Buffett2_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/giving-challenge_0/Gates_Buffett2_m.jpg Warren Buffett, left, and Bill and Melinda Gates have challenged the world's billionaires to give away half their wealth before they die. 2010-08-10UTC20:34:40 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/giving-challenge_0/lorrylokey_m.JPG http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/giving-challenge_0/lorrylokey_m.JPG Lorry Lokey has pledged to give away all of his $700 million, with the next $60 million going to Israel. 2010-08-10UTC20:28:36 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/giving-challenge_0/gates_photo_m.JPG http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/giving-challenge_0/gates_photo_m.JPG Thirteen Jews were among the first to take the Giving Pledge challenge issued by Bill Gates, above, and Warren Buffett. 2010-08-10UTC20:26:43 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/conservative-machzor_0/2_conservative_prayerbooks_m.JPG http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/conservative-machzor_0/2_conservative_prayerbooks_m.JPG The Lev Shalem High Holidays prayer book, left, and the new Israeli Masorti siddur aim to speak to the Jewish community at large. 2010-08-10UTC20:23:55 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/conservative-machzor_0/machzor_lev_shalem_m.JPG http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/conservative-machzor_0/machzor_lev_shalem_m.JPG This page of the new Lev Shalem machzor displays the traditional Al Chet list of sins juxtaposed with an alternative meditation on sins against the earth penned by Jewish Theological Seminary Dean Daniel Nevins. 2010-08-10UTC20:23:02 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/land-demolitions-raising-tensions_0/bedouin_demolitions2_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/land-demolitions-raising-tensions_0/bedouin_demolitions2_m.jpg A Bedouin boy helps to rebuild the family tent in the unofficial village of Al-Arakib in the Negev Desert after it was demolished by Israeli authorities, Aug. 4, 2010. 2010-08-10UTC15:50:18 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/dead-sea-scrolls_0/FatherJohn_c_m.jpg http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/dead-sea-scrolls_0/FatherJohn_c_m.jpg The Very Rev. John Meno, secretary to the late Archbishop Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, tells of the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments’ sojourn to a Syrian church in Teaneck, N.J. 2010-08-10UTC15:44:57 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/unfinished_0/unfinished_poster_(for_tugend_story)_m.JPG http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/unfinished_0/unfinished_poster_(for_tugend_story)_m.JPG Promotional poster for a "A Film Unfinished," which features real and staged footage from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. 2010-08-10UTC15:38:25 http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/jgorin_0/JuliaGorin1(2)_m.JPG http://multimedia.jta.org/images/multimedia/jgorin_0/JuliaGorin1(2)_m.JPG Julia Gorin. 2010-08-09UTC19:44:36