November 2, 2009

Ideas

Op-Ed: Kristallnacht in Munich, then and now

Kristallnacht came early to Munich in 1938, but seven decades later a Jewish community has reinvented itself, with allegiance to the past and promise for the future, an American Jewish Committee official writes.

By Rabbi Noam E. Marans November 2, 2009 11:35 pm

Concessions on settlements fall short, Clinton says

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Israel’s concessions on settlement building fall short of Washington’s expectations.

November 2, 2009 9:23 pm

Weinberg foundation to announce $100 million in grants.

The country’s largest Jewish-focused foundation, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, will announce roughly $100 million in grants at its annual public meeting in Baltimore Nov. 4. The foundation will surely give a large percentage of those gifts to Jewish organizations. Though $100 million is still a lot of money, the foundation before the recession […]

November 2, 2009 8:55 pm