http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en lbridwell@alteryourview.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-18T20:00:55+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/new_childrens_books_enliven_the_holiday/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/new_childrens_books_enliven_the_holiday/#When:18:49:52Z Over the past 10 to 15 years, as the offering of Jewish children’s books has burgeoned, the style and variety of Passover books for children has expanded, too. Given the huge selection of Passover Haggadot, perhaps it is no surprise. There are traditional biblical retellings of the Exodus story, toddler board books, children’s versions of the Haggadah, fanciful… News - National 2010-03-18T18:49:52+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/in_pursuit_of_the_vegan_matzo_ball/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/in_pursuit_of_the_vegan_matzo_ball/#When:18:46:42Z On Passover, Jews all over the world will sit down to their Seders and read the story of the Israelite’s dramatic journey from Egypt. The Seder uses symbolic foods of various colors and textures, such as, the matzo, shank bone, and Haroset to create sensory images in the retelling of the story of freedom. However, anyone who has… News - National 2010-03-18T18:46:42+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/who_decides_on_campus_free_speech/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/who_decides_on_campus_free_speech/#When:18:41:19Z In what is yet more evidence that universities have become, at least where campus free speech is concerned, as Harvard’s wise Abigail Thernstrom has described them, “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” the University Of California, San Diego has been undergoing collective apoplexy over some incendiary racial slurs made by students involved in an off-campus fraternity… News - National 2010-03-18T18:41:19+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/at_jofa_conference_passion_shifts_to_womens_leadership/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/at_jofa_conference_passion_shifts_to_womens_leadership/#When:11:34:11Z The last time the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance organized a conference at Columbia University, in 2007, Israeli activist Tova Hartman electrified a crowd of several hundred with her call to “stop kvetching” and start acting until the plight of “chained women,” or agunot, was resolved. “Let this be the last JOFA conference where we need to ask if… News - National 2010-03-18T11:34:11+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/pro-israel_groups_want_sides_to_make_nice/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/pro-israel_groups_want_sides_to_make_nice/#When:13:30:42Z By the time this year’s AIPAC policy conference starts, its organizers—indeed, pretty much the entire Washington village inside a village that calls itself “pro-Israel”—hopes the shouting will be over. That’s because they want to get back to shouting—about Iran and its nuclear threat, and not last week’s contretemps between Israel and the United States over a building start… News - National 2010-03-17T13:30:42+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/in_visit_to_israel_latina_women_see_themselves/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/in_visit_to_israel_latina_women_see_themselves/#When:12:46:45Z For Sindy Benavides, a Hispanic community organizer from Virginia who was visiting Israel last week, the Jewish community is a newfound friend. Three years ago, Benavides said, she had the “frightening” experience of seeing the number of anti-immigration bills introduced in the Virginia House of Representatives triple to 148—a reaction, she said, to the influx of Latino immigrants… News - National 2010-03-16T12:46:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/berkley_adl_push_back_on_u.s._criticism_of_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/berkley_adl_push_back_on_u.s._criticism_of_israel/#When:16:27:53Z A Republican leader, a Democratic Jewish congresswoman and the Anti-Defamation League pushed back against the Obama administration’s continuing rebukes of Israel for its settlement announcement last week. U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) and the ADL described the State Department’s tough criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “overreaction”—Berkley said it was an “irresponsible overreaction” and the… News - National 2010-03-15T16:27:53+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/u.s._anti-semitism_envoy_wants_to_recruit_non-jews/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/u.s._anti-semitism_envoy_wants_to_recruit_non-jews/#When:12:00:33Z President Obama’s special envoy on anti-Semitism wants to recruit non-Jews to make her case. Hannah Rosenthal outlined her goals in her new role during a recent address in Dallas to the annual plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the public policy umbrella she once led as president. To combat anti-Semitism, the Jewish people need more non-Jews… News - National 2010-03-14T12:00:33+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/aipac_calls_to_block_u.s._companies_supporting_iran/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/aipac_calls_to_block_u.s._companies_supporting_iran/#When:12:00:14Z The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is calling on the U.S. Congress to take several immediate steps in response to a New York Times report revealing that the federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in grants, contracts and other benefits to foreign and multinational U.S. companies conducting business in Iran. In a rare move, the pro-Israel… News - National 2010-03-13T12:00:14+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/communications_activist_silenced_in_cuban_jail_cell/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/communications_activist_silenced_in_cuban_jail_cell/#When:12:00:30Z Alan Gross has been about communications all his life: The call-mom-everyday son, the family newsbreaker, the message guy for Jewish groups, the get-out-the-vote enthusiast for candidate Barack Obama, the technology contractor who helped the U.S. government bring the world’s remotest populations into the 21st century. Now, however, Gross, 60, of Potomac, Md., has been languishing for three months… News - National 2010-03-12T12:00:30+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/oren_offers_to_return_to_irvine_university/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/oren_offers_to_return_to_irvine_university/#When:12:00:49Z Israel’s U.S. ambassador has offered to return to the California university where students interrupted his speech last month.   Michael Oren in an open letter Monday said he would meet with students at the University of California, Irvine who disagree with his point of view.   The letter to the university community was published… News - National 2010-03-11T12:00:49+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/amid_furor_weiss_backs_away_from_rabba_title/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/amid_furor_weiss_backs_away_from_rabba_title/#When:13:40:45Z On the eve of a conference marking the expansion of leadership roles for women within Orthodoxy, the trend’s most prominent rabbinic proponent has backtracked from his near-ordination of female rabbis amid intense criticism. Rabbi Avi Weiss promised he would not ordain any more women with the title “rabba,” a feminized version of “rabbi” that had drawn widespread condemnation… News - National 2010-03-10T13:40:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/foreman_to_defend_title_at_yankee_stadium/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/foreman_to_defend_title_at_yankee_stadium/#When:13:30:49Z Orthodox boxer Yuri Foreman’s first title defense appears to be a go for Yankee Stadium on June 5. A scheduling conflict with a bar mitzvah at the year-old stadium has been worked out, setting the stage for Foreman (28-0) to face former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2) for the WBA junior middleweight crown, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum… News - National 2010-03-09T13:30:49+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/n.y._governor_approves_funding_to_fight_orthodox_sex_abuse/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/n.y._governor_approves_funding_to_fight_orthodox_sex_abuse/#When:17:00:32Z New York Gov. David Paterson approved a plan to give $500,000 in state money to help identify and treat sex abuse victims in New York’s Orthodox Jewish community.   Paterson backed the expenditure from the state’s Department of Children and Family Services to set up an organization called Shomrei Yeladim, Hebrew for “guards of the children,”… News - National 2010-03-08T17:00:32+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/bill_would_honor_miep_gies/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/bill_would_honor_miep_gies/#When:10:00:46Z A bill honoring the life of the woman who hid Anne Frank’s family and salvaged her diary is winding its way through the U.S. House of Representatives.   The non-binding resolution seeking to honor the life of Miep Gies is sponsored by Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio) and has 60 co-sponsors. Gies helped to hide the… News - National 2010-03-07T10:00:46+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jewelers_who_staged_chasidic_robbery_arrested/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jewelers_who_staged_chasidic_robbery_arrested/#When:12:00:19Z Two jewelers were arrested for staging the robbery of $4 million in jewelry from their own store using thieves dressed as Chasidim.   The two diamond wholesalers from the New York Diamond District—Atul Shah, 48, and Mahaveer Kankariya, 43—staged the robbery on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve 2008. They were charged Tuesday with grand larceny,… News - National 2010-03-06T12:00:19+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/elderly_jewish_mans_killer_gets_maximum_sentence/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/elderly_jewish_mans_killer_gets_maximum_sentence/#When:12:00:38Z A man convicted of robbing and murdering an 81-year-old Orthodox Jewish man received the maximum prison term.   William Hill, 28, was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in the murder of Jacob Gerstle, who was a great-grandfather when he was killed in 2006.   Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Bruce Allen called the… News - National 2010-03-05T12:00:38+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/hank_rosenstein_player_in_first_nba_game_dies_at_89/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/hank_rosenstein_player_in_first_nba_game_dies_at_89/#When:17:10:27Z Hank Rosenstein, who played for a mostly Jewish New York Knicks team that took part in what is considered the NBA’s first game in 1946, has died. Rosenstein, a member of the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, died Saturday in Boca Raton, Fla., of heart failure, The New York Times reported. He was 89. Rosenstein, who at… News - National 2010-03-04T17:10:27+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/israeli_jewish-themed_films_top_oscar_contenders/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/israeli_jewish-themed_films_top_oscar_contenders/#When:14:05:42Z The Jews, we well know, run Hollywood. But even the most unreconstructed anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist probably would never had anticipated a year like this: Three Jewish-themed films vying for the Best Picture nod on Sunday, and an Israeli contender up for Best Foreign Language Film.  True, the Oscars this year expanded the field of Best Picture hopefuls to… News - National 2010-03-03T14:05:42+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/birthright_foundation_announces_new_matching_grant/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/birthright_foundation_announces_new_matching_grant/#When:16:15:44Z A new matching grant program by the Birthright Israel Foundation will provide a dollar-for-dollar match on any increase in donations to the foundation based on 2008 gifts. That means if a donor gave $100 in 2008 and gives $120 in 2010, the foundation would match the $20 increase. Private philanthropists, the Jewish federation system, the Jewish Agency… News - National 2010-03-02T16:15:44+00:00