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.
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.
A paparazzi photo catches ex-New York congressman Anthony Weiner and his pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, at a Washington restaurant. And purely by accident Andrew Breitbart, a key player in the Weinergate scandal, is right there.