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Conservative rabbis: We still back conversion

Ami Eden — 2009-07-09T20:00:00-05:00

The Rabbinical Assembly is taking issue with a Jewish Week article claiming that the Conservative movment is backing away from a policy of pushing non-Jewish spouses to convert.

Conservatives soften on intermarriage

Uriel Heilman — 2009-07-09T14:54:00-05:00

The battle among the Conservative Jewish establishment to convert the spouses of intermarried Jews is over, reports Stewart Ain in the New York Jewish Week:

Road warriors

Uriel Heilman — 2009-07-09T14:49:00-05:00

Vandals in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel are defacing road signs to remove Arabic from the trilingual signs. Now, a group of vigilantes are fighting back.

Lod’s hidden treasure

Uriel Heilman — 2009-07-09T14:37:00-05:00

Can the Israeli city of Lod, a mixed Jewish-Arab city near Tel Aviv that is struggling economically, be revitalized by a 1,700-year old mosaic?

Trading outposts for large settlement blocs

Uriel Heilman — 2009-07-09T14:33:00-05:00

If Benjamin Netanyahu insists on keeping illegal settlement outposts, he will be defending lawlessness and harming Israel’s interests, writesHa’aretz columnist Ari Shavit. And if Obama refuses to recognize that large settlement blocs near the Green Line will become part of Israel, he will be destroying President Clinton’s legacy. But if Obama and Netanyahu formulate an outposts-for-blocs policy, they will be serving their countries’ interests, as well as promoting a realistic peace process.

Documenting, and fighting, settlement growth

Uriel Heilman — 2009-07-08T14:30:00-05:00

In this seven-minute video report by Israel’s Channel 2, Peace Now members debate one settler about construction projects in the West Bank and encounter a violent attack by another as they try to film.

A new way to attack Iran?

Uriel Heilman — 2009-07-08T14:21:02-05:00

Can Israel use cyberwarfare to foil Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Dan Williams of Reuters reports.

Hockey in Israel?

Eric Fingerhut — 2009-07-07T21:44:00-05:00

The World Jewish Ice Hockey Championships are underway in northern Israel.

From God’s lips to Jon Stewart’s monologue?

Ami Eden — 2009-07-07T14:59:00-05:00

The Rev. Jim Wallis interviews the host of “The Daily Show”—and calls him a Hebrew prophet.

Rethinking the Holocaust

Ben Harris — 2009-07-06T15:43:00-05:00

In the New York Review of Books, Timothy Snyder argues that we have misunderstood the Holocaust by placing so much emphasis on Auschwitz.