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Kosher ethics panel at YU

The New York Times has a story yesterday on the kosher ethics panel Tuesday night at Yeshiva University (also live-streamed on the JTA website). In the piece, reporter Paul Vitello offers a good, if brief, overview of the various approaches presented at the panel, ranging from that of the fervently Orthodox Agudath Israel of America (kashrut […]

Bring those Israelis home

Israel should capitalize on America’s financial woes to recover some of the social capital — Israeli yordim — it has lost to the United States and other Western countries in recent years, writes Aluf Benn in his column in Ha’aretz. America’s troubles have given Israel a unique opportunity to strengthen its national resilience and growth […]

Political tidbits: Hillary is the “great kosherizer,” “The Nanny” for Senate? (UPDATED)

Jason Horowitz in the New York Observer calls Hillary Clinton "the great kosherizer" in Barack Obama’s administration: Mrs. Clinton’s first Senate race, New Yorkers may remember, was dominated for a long stretch by energetically delivered media stories about her feelings toward Israel, her (literal) embrace of Yasser Arafat’s wife at a public event and even […]

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Kosher ethics panel at YU

Bring those Israelis home

Political tidbits: Hillary is the “great kosherizer,” “The Nanny” for Senate? (UPDATED)

Palestinians moving to Israel

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YU Ethics & Kashrut Live Stream Tonight

Realism and the Arab peace initiative

The end of Labor?

On hold with the terrorists in Mumbai

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