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Eric Yoffie: The exit interview
At the end of this year, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the president of Union for Reform Judaism, will be stepping down after 16 years at the movement’s helm. Yoffie sat down with JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman ahead of the Reform biennial, which will be held Dec. 14-18. Read more »
Israel’s minister for the Diaspora: J Street is anti-Israel
When Yuli Edelstein, Israel’s minister for public diplomacy and Diaspora affairs, dropped by the JTA offices the other day, he made clear there is one Diaspora Jewish group about which he has no interest in being diplomatic: J Street. Read more »
Ad campaign flare-up obscures bigger challenge: Luring home Israeli expats
The flare-up between some American Jews and Israel over a two-month-old Israeli ad campaign to lure home expatriates in the United States obscured a larger challenge for Israel: How to stem emigration. Read more »
At Reform biennial, changes at the top, but focus on the grass roots
As Reform Jewry prepares for its biggest convention ever, the question facing the movement as it undergoes a change of leadership isn’t so much what happens at the top but what happens at the grass roots. Read more »
Anger over ad campaign missed the point
Jeff Goldberg is taking the credit for putting the kibosh on the Israeli ad campaign to lure Israeli expats in the United States back to Israel. Read more »
Why are some US Jews so offended by the Israeli ads aimed at expats?
Why are some American Jews so exercised about the two-month old YouTube ad campaign by the Israeli government aimed at tugging at the heartstrings of Israeli expats to get them to return home? Read more »
At Denver GA, talking about connectivity and the lack of star power
If there was one message that the Jewish Federations of North America was trying to promote at this year’s General Assembly conference in Denver, it was connectivity. Read more »
At GA, new federation plan for overseas seen as blow to Jewish Agency
In the name of preserving the embattled principle of Jewish collective action, North American Jewish federations are shaking up their longstanding policies on funding Jewish needs overseas -- to the chagrin of their main beneficiary abroad. 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
