The Israeli governemnt launched a full court press for blurb control today before meeting with President Obama in Washington DC. Ehud Barak, in DC for the GA2009, said that Israel is doing all it can...
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Greetings from the GA2009. Wish You Were Here
The General Assembly 2009 conference kicked off in Washington DC on Sunday with an estimated 3,000 conferees, mostly made up of representatives from 157 North American Jewish federations and 400...
Joshua Venture Group Has $ Waiting For U
Have an idea? Sure you do. Maybe a blog? A Jewish educational project, maybe an outreach prgram in breast cancer awareness at the Hillel level? OKay, wait those were done already. But maybe you have...
Nazis’ Victims More Susceptible to Cancer?
Add another crime against humanity to the rampage of Nazism. The November 2009 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute* reports that Jewish Holocaust survivors are at a higher risk for...
Foto Op: Clinton in Israel
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in a press briefing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem October 31, 2009, and discussed the .. fish she caught in...
ShivaWatch: Lawrence Halprin Passes Away at 93
Lawrence Halprin, the renowned landscape architect died this week at the age of 93. Born in New York City, he worked on a pre-State kibbutz for three years as a teenager, and then returned to the USA...
J Street Conference. New Avenue for Ideas or Dead End, Part 2
The J Street conference reminded me of two recent Torah readings. The first was Bereshit, in which the world is created (and then there was a helluva lot of work required afterwards). And the next is...
J Street: A New Avenue for Ideas or a Dead End? Day 1
Washington DC has a grid of numbers and lettered streets overlayed with diagonal avenues named for U.S. states. There are smaller streets in alphabetic order which ascend in sequence by their numbers...