http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en mforr@alteryourview.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-20T18:39:44+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jewish_support_for_israeli-arabs_goes_mainstream/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jewish_support_for_israeli-arabs_goes_mainstream/#When:18:37:39Z When the Reform movement passed a resolution endorsing advocacy for Israeli Arabs, it wasn’t the first time an American Jewish group had backed the cause of Israeli-Arab equality. In recent years, a growing number of American Jews have thrown their support toward Israeli-Arab causes, including civil rights and advocacy organizations, women’s empowerment courses, student-exchange programs and even film… News - National 2009-11-20T18:37:39+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/is_fur_a_jewish_issue1/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/is_fur_a_jewish_issue1/#When:19:35:18Z Jewish worshipers chant every Sabbath morning, “The soul of every living being shall praise God’s name” (Nishmat kol chai tva’rech et shim’chah). Yet, some come to synagogue during the winter months wearing coats that required the cruel treatment of some of those living beings whose souls praise God. To decide whether the use of fur is a significant… News - National 2009-11-19T19:35:18+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/rubashkin_plans_appeal_but_another_trial_looms/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/rubashkin_plans_appeal_but_another_trial_looms/#When:16:52:48Z Facing a prison sentence of up to 1,250 years following his conviction last week on 86 of 91 fraud charges, Sholom Rubashkin is hoping his exoneration will come on appeal. But U.S. prosecutors are looking forward to the next trial for Rubashkin, the former vice president of Agriprocessors when it was the nation’s largest kosher meat plant. The… News - National 2009-11-19T16:52:48+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/advocate_for_militarys_jews_defends_islam_in_wake_of_fort_hood/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/advocate_for_militarys_jews_defends_islam_in_wake_of_fort_hood/#When:18:15:45Z Mikey Weinstein is probably best known for defending Jews from alleged bigotry and harassment in the U.S. military. In the past few days, however, he’s been raising questions about whether there’s an anti-Muslim bias in the service as well. Weinstein, the founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s alleged killing of… News - National 2009-11-18T18:15:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/orthodox_groups_decry_state_dept._report_on_religious_freedom/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/orthodox_groups_decry_state_dept._report_on_religious_freedom/#When:16:22:31Z A U.S. State Department report on religious freedom is drawing sharp criticism from Orthodox Jewish groups over its portrayal of Israel. The groups are denouncing what they call the unfair and biased criticism of Israel in the annual International Religious Freedom Report. Released last month, the report evaluates the levels of religious freedom in countries throughout the world,… News - National 2009-11-17T16:22:31+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/obama_shifts_to_israels_corner_but_tries_not_to_show_it/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/obama_shifts_to_israels_corner_but_tries_not_to_show_it/#When:16:50:47Z When the White House chief of staff took to the podium at the federations’ General Assembly to call for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations without preconditions, he sounded almost exactly like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a day earlier. “All issues should be resolved through negotiations,” Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday to delegates at the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual meeting.… News - National 2009-11-16T16:50:47+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/weinberg_grants_announced/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/weinberg_grants_announced/#When:20:00:53Z
]]>The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation released its annual report Nov. 4, disclosing more than $100 million in grants to organizations that serve several categories — elder adults, health and disabilities among them. While the Owings Mills-based foundation gives tens of millions of dollars to general causes each year, the majority of its grants go to Jewish organizations.… News - National 2009-11-12T20:00:53+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jewish_charities_on_top_400_list/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jewish_charities_on_top_400_list/#When:20:00:43Z
]]>More than 20 Jewish charities were featured on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s “Philanthropy 400,” despite some serious drops in fund-raising. The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore was ranked 355th. The annual ranking of top money-collecting non-profits looked at charitable collections for 2008, a year in which many charities felt the pain of the recession and the early… News - National 2009-11-12T20:00:43+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jcorps_founder_wins_first_jewish_community_heroes_award/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jcorps_founder_wins_first_jewish_community_heroes_award/#When:05:00:01Z After weeks of deliberation and the tally of more than 600,000 online votes, the Jewish Federations of North America has named its first Jewish Community Hero—Ari Teman, the founder of JCorps. A panel of judges from outside the federation system chose Teman, 27, for the $25,000 Jewish Community Heroes prize after whittling down a list of more… News - National 2009-11-12T05:00:01+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/maybe_goldstone_report_has_value/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/maybe_goldstone_report_has_value/#When:18:55:04Z A week ago I was sitting in an office in the Israeli Embassy in Washington, about to hand an embassy official a letter we rabbis of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America had written to President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel. Founded in 2002, Rabbis for Human Rights - North America (RHR-NA) is an organization of rabbis… News - National 2009-11-11T18:55:04+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jewish_republicans_democrats_debate_results_of_09_vote/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/jewish_republicans_democrats_debate_results_of_09_vote/#When:15:53:14Z After playing an active role in both the New Jersey and Virginian gubernatorial races, Republican and Democratic Jews joined their respective partisans in debating the meaning of last week’s election results. The Republican Jewish Coalition, hailing Bob McDonnell’s thrashing of Democrat Creigh Deeds in Virginia and Chris Christie’s victory over incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine in New Jersey, said… News - National 2009-11-11T15:53:14+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/reform_leader_urges_jewish_dietary_practice/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/reform_leader_urges_jewish_dietary_practice/#When:15:56:25Z When Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, delivers his Saturday-morning sermon at the group’s biennial conference, he sets the movement’s priorities for the coming two years. His message this month in Toronto: Let’s eat like Jews. He was not asking Reform Jews to observe kosher laws. Rather, acknowledging America’s increased interest in food choices… News - National 2009-11-10T15:56:25+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/can_jewish_tenets_be_a_model_for_a_more_eco-friendly_world/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/can_jewish_tenets_be_a_model_for_a_more_eco-friendly_world/#When:21:19:42Z Have Jews been “green” for millennia without knowing it? A Jewish delegation made the case this week to a climate-change conference in Britain, arguing for eco-friendly measures based on the Jewish tenets of Shabbat, kashrut and shmita, the injunction to let land lie fallow every seventh year. Titled “Many Heavens, One Earth,” the conference at Windsor Palace in… News - National 2009-11-09T21:19:42+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/senate_panel_passes_iran_sanctions/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/senate_panel_passes_iran_sanctions/#When:05:00:31Z The U.S. Senate Banking Committee passed an Iran sanctions bill by a unanimous vote. The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2009 passed Oct. 30 includes the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, which would strengthen the U.S. president’s authority to sanction companies that help Iran import or produce refined petroleum. That is seen as potentially having… News - National 2009-11-08T05:00:31+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/two_jailed_for_torah_theft_in_texas/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/two_jailed_for_torah_theft_in_texas/#When:05:00:43Z Two men were arrested for allegedly stealing a Torah scroll from a Texas synagogue. Derrick Randall Nelms, 19, and James William Wilsford, 23, were taken into custody Oct. 30 by authorities in Sherman, according to KXII, a local CBS-affiliated television station. The Torah scroll, valued at $40,000, remains missing from Temple Beth Emeth, a Reform synagogue in Sherman.… News - National 2009-11-07T05:00:43+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/j_street_confab_shows_generational_divide_on_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/j_street_confab_shows_generational_divide_on_israel/#When:05:00:00Z After all the arguing in recent weeks over J Street, one thing was clear at the inaugural conference of the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” group: Even among the 1,500 delegates who attended the parley, there are crucial disagreements over what’s best for Middle East peace. On some issues, judging from interviews with conference delegates and assessments by J Street… News - National 2009-11-06T05:00:00+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/a_new_kristallnacht_in_the_making/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/a_new_kristallnacht_in_the_making/#When:20:00:31Z On November 9, 1938, a massive nation-wide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich. The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was the shooting in Paris two days earlier of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish refugee. The state-organized pogrom, instigated by… News - National 2009-11-05T20:00:31+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/despite_progress_obama_hesitant_about_netanyahu_meeting/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/despite_progress_obama_hesitant_about_netanyahu_meeting/#When:05:00:17Z With President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to appear at the same convention of Jewish activists, and their governments nearing a deal on the thorny settlements issue, it would seem like a great time for a sit-down. But there’s a problem: the reluctance of the Palestinians—and by extension the Arab world—to climb on board for… News - National 2009-11-05T05:00:17+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/hillel_responds_to_hate_by_uniting_campus_communities/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/hillel_responds_to_hate_by_uniting_campus_communities/#When:15:06:34Z Stanford University’s Jewish community celebrated the first night of Sukkot eating the traditional festive meal inside the sukkah they put up every year. The next morning, on Oct. 3, a student walked into the sukkah to discover that it had been vandalized: Someone had spray-painted large phalluses on the entrance flaps. Campus police were called and the graffiti… News - National 2009-11-03T15:06:34+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/adl_survey_anti-semitism_at_low_point/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/adl_survey_anti-semitism_at_low_point/#When:17:49:07Z The level of anti-Semitism in the United States has tied a historic low point, according to an Anti-Defamation League poll. The survey, which was released Thursday, found that 12 precent of Americans hold anti-Semitic views, down from 15 percent in 2007 and matching the 12 percent figure recorded in 1998. The highest number on record was 29 percent… News - National 2009-11-02T17:49:07+00:00