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Op-Ed: Innovators wanted, non-rich need not apply
Social innovation think tanks and incubators are beginning to dominate the institutional landscape -- but who can possibly afford to participate in these programs, asks a Jewish Internet guru. Read more »
Jewish baseball fans celebrate heritage in Coney Island
JTA's Dan Sieradski visited Keyspan Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, as the Mets' minor league affiliate, The Cyclones, celebrated Jewish Heritage Night. Read more »
Steal this post!
The decline of Jewish newspapers is being accelerated by the rise of Jewish news aggregation Web sites which steal content from more prominent sources, robbing them of desperately needed licensing fees and revenue-generating traffic. And JTA’s director of digital media, Dan Sieradski, has something to say about it—and plenty of rabbis to back him up! Read more »
Klezmer and kosher wine sate brunchers at City Winery
City Winery brings klezmer and kosher wine to NYC’s Sunday brunchers. Video by Liz Nord. Read more »
Beijing’s Jewish restaurants face demolition
Beijing’s two neighboring Jewish restaurants are being forced to relocate by a city order demolishing their buildings. Read more »
Of Israel, Jews and Contemporary Dance
Explore Israeli dance and Jewish expression with dancer Jesse Zaritt, who performed this week at the LABA Festival at the 14th St. Y in Manhattan. Read more »
About that email
I will be the first to admit that Friday’s fundraising letter was ill-advised and regrettable. The characterization of bloggers and Twitterers as “non-professional” and unreliable was not only counterproductive but arguably false. Read more »
Enabling the Next Big Jewish Idea
Every so often, a conversation will arise in Jewish professional circles around “the next big Jewish idea.” The question is asked, what’s the next big thing that’s going reinvigorate and renew Jewish life for an increasingly intermarried and disinterested American Jewry? What’s the silver bullet that’s going to save us from our own self-destruction? Brandeis is currently offering a professorship and a six-figure salary graciously provided by Charles Bronfman to someone who can devise, if not a solution, a pathway towards a solution to this question. Yet it is my belief that the next big Jewish idea will not be hatched inside a board room. It will not be the result of a research study. It will not come from within an institution at all. Rather, the next big Jewish idea will be the work of a young, independently minded individual seeking to address the needs of his or her own self or his or her own immediate community. Read more »
RSS Feed Breaking News
Updated 02/09/12 @ 05:54PM EST
- 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.
- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto.
- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
- A truck driving calves from Eilat to the Golan Heights was hijacked into the West Bank.
- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
- Berman moves to grant investor visas to Israelis
- Holy cow! Calves hijacked into Palestinian territory
- Report: Israeli journalist also works for prime minister
- Larry Greenfield tapped to lead JINSA
