Posts Tagged: Jewish community
My Conversations with PETA about Jewish Ritual Slaughter
About a year ago a Chabad Rabbi got in touch with me and asked if I would agree to meet a senior Jewish PETA executive...
AJC Humanitarian Award Nominates Fishbein, Schatten
Philip Schatten and Cheryl Fishbein were honored by the American Jewish Committee as awardees of the AJC National Human Relations Award at its annual gala...
Coming Home to Crown Heights
The emotions and memories of many attending spanned close to a hundred years. Rabbinical and community reminisces were spoken, childhood highlights recalled, generations remembered. The evening...
A Crucial Week at the UN
This has been an amazing turnabout. A few sentences in Barack Obama's speech at the UN represented the most articulate and explicit summary of the...
NYPD Pledges Vigilance Over Jewish High Holidays
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly hosted the Jewish community at NYPD Headquarters as part of the Annual High Holy Days Briefing. Speakers included Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Commissioner...
CFR President: Radical Palestinian State Possible
The Jewish community in New York and the world Jewish community awaits the Holiday season with happy anticipation - and a heightened awareness of the...
PA Statehood Bid Defies Legal Advice
"People get it," said Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Director of The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The Conference and its members have organized a...
Norwegian Jews Respond To Terror Attack
"An event like this is so beyond the scope of life - so, so foreign, that it will probably take some time to recover." Rabbi...
Levi Aron Is Not a Religious Man
There are no words to describe the horror of the murder of Leiby Kletzky, the 9-year old who was killed in Brooklyn on Tuesday. ...
