That’s what Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s widow implied when she stated that there was a spiritual significance in the timing of her late husband’s exhumation, just two days before...
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Will The Jewish Communal Revolution be Tweeted? Part One #JFNAGA
GA Post #1 The title is taken from a conversation on Twitter that was spawned during the Handle With Care: How to Harness Social Media panel chaired by our dear friend Esther Kustanowitz. Today is...
The Scope and Meaning of being Pro-Israel: Ill Defined at the GA
Guest Post by Dalia Wolfson, Do The Write Thing participant at 2010 New Orleans General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America Last week, I attended the G.A. (rhymes with oy-vey!) in New...
I Don’t Understand Zionism; Musings from the GA
Guest Post by Shaun Bernstein, Do The Write Thing participant at 2010 New Orleans General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America In April, I’ll be finishing up my journalism...
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...
#GA09 is the Hash Tag, Washington DC is the place
The General Assembly of the UJC newly uh… christened Jewish Federations of North America or JFNA for short (pronounced JAFINA, like Dafena – Sephardic Chulent!) is now under way...