As Yeshiva University announces a one-year fund-raising record for actual cash received, JTA’s Ben Harris recounts his day on campus with the school’s gregarious president.
Faced with the dilemma of what to do at a hot pot business dinner in China – where diners share a communal pot of meat, fish and vegetables – the vegetarian, kosher-observant author finds common cause with a Chinese Muslim.
The resident Jews of China’s capital are getting ready to welcome Jewish tourists, athletes – and an Illinois boy who will celebrate his bar mitzvah during the Olympic Games.