The Year Ahead: Who’ll Replace John Ruskay at UJA-Fed?
He’s taken his share of lumps over the years (too slow to integrate Russian speakers into the federation world; too timid in standing up for a film festival highlighting the daily lives of Arab...
View ArticleThe Year Ahead: Tigers Go Jewish. Can They Go to Promised Land?
Israelites would grumble that Moses was a terrible skipper, but Joshua had an easier time following him than Brad Ausmus will have following legendary Jim Leyland as manager of the Detroit Tigers....
View ArticleThe Year Ahead: Pope Francis and the Pius Archives
For many Catholics, Pope Francis is a cleansing breath of fresh air. In a short nine months since taking over at the Vatican, he has reset the Church, putting a strong focus on tolerance, simplicity...
View ArticleThe Year Ahead: Jewish Museum Going Edgy
Who would have expected The Jewish Museum to host an avant-garde fashion show during the Performa festival or invite Lena Dunham to host a Purim party at the Park Avenue Armory? The 109-year-old...
View ArticleThe Year Ahead: Modern Orthodoxy at the Crossroads
Modern Orthodox advocates trumpet a “revival” of daring intellectual excitement and halachic experimentation. Literacy is high. Intermarriage is low. But growth is dwarfed by the booming demographics...
View ArticleThe Year Ahead: Jewish Security in Europe
Is Europe becoming, for the first time since the 1930s, a place that is inhospitable to Jews? American Jews should pay attention in 2014 to four discrete anti-Jewish expressions.read more
View ArticleThe Year Ahead: Hipping Up Ashkenazi Food
Jeffrey Yoskowitz is definitely a young Jewish leader to watch; it’s just sometimes hard to figure out exactly which Yoskowitz you’re watching. Recently returned home from Sweden, where he spoke at...
View ArticleNext Wave: N.Y’s Community Mikveh
Of course, there are mikvehs in New York. The city is filled with ritual baths serving its many observant Jewish communities. What the city doesn’t offer is a bath along the lines of Mayyim Hayyim in...
View ArticleSizing Up The Year To Come
Seven issues that will likely resonate in 2014. Tue, 12/31/2013 “No deal is better than a bad deal!” That was Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s pronouncement on the interim deal hammered out in...
View ArticleScandal Of The Year
It was a year of abundant scandal in the Jewish communal world, with institutions ranging from the Claims Conference ($57 million phony claims scam), Yeshiva University (sexual abuse charges) and even...
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