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The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2014
The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2014 ACADEMIA Alain Finkielkraut Moshe Halbertal Deborah Lipstadt Jacob Metzer Steven Pinker Tammi Rossman-Benjamin ARTS AND CULTURE Yaacov Agam David Blatt Leonard Cohen Gal Gadot Scarlett Johansson Ryan Kavanaugh Steven Spielberg Harry Styles INNOVATION AND ACTIVISM Meira Aboulafia Adina Bar-Shalom Nitsana Darshan-Leitner Daniel...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Dennis Prager – Voices
Dennis Prager Talk show host and columnist Nationally-renowned as a radio talk show host and...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Berel Lazar – Religion
Berel Lazar Chief rabbi of Russia Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar of Russia has proven a key figure...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Muhammad Zoaibi – Tomorrow
Muhammad Zoaibi Activist For an Arab teenager in Israel to call himself a Zionist is a life-endangering...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Alan Dershowitz – Voices
Alan Dershowitz Attorney, author and academic One of the most high-profile liberal Zionist...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Bernard-Henri Levy – Voices
Bernard-Henri Levy Philosopher With his shock of black hair, and his trademark open-necked...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Lassana Bathily – Tomorrow
Lassana Bathily Supermarket worker On the morning of Friday, Jan. 9, Lassana Bathily was just...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Khaled Abu Toameh – Voices
Khaled Abu Toameh Journalist For several years now, the name of Khaled Abu Toameh has been...
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Jewish 100, 2014: John Hagee – Religion
John Hagee Founder of Christians United for Israel Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United...
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Jewish 100, 2014: George Deek – Tomorrow
George Deek Israel’s vice ambassador to Norway One of the most thoughtful and eloquent...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Haim Korsia – Religion
Haim Korsia Chief rabbi of France Haim Korsia, the former Jewish chaplain of the French army...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Pope Francis I – Religion
Pope Francis I Leader of the Catholic Church For the world’s first Latin American...
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Jewish 100, 2014: Jonathan Sacks – Religion
Jonathan Sacks Author After more than twenty years as Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan...
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Jewish Identity Sports
Cycling the Desert: New Israel Bike Trail Connects Mitzpe Ramon to Eilat
As the popularity of cycling continues to increase across the world, Israel is working to develop cycling trails that make the country’s spectacular desert accessible to cyclists. The southern segment of the Israel Bike Trail was inaugurated on Feb. 24 and offers for the first time a unique, uninterrupted 8-day cycling experience after six years of planning and development. The southern section of the Israel Bike Trail stretches over 300 kilometers in length and is divided into eight segments for mountain biking, [...]
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Jewish Identity Theater
Forthcoming Major Action Movies Inspired by Jewish Comic Artist Jack Kirby
JNS.org – With the recent Oscars in the rearview mirror, Hollywood’s attention now shifts to the rest of this year’s big-screen lineup. Two of the major action films coming up in 2015—Avengers: Age of Ultron, which hits theaters in May, and the third film in the Fantastic Four series, slated for an August release—have Jewish roots that the average moviegoer might be unaware of. As it turns out, it took a tough Jewish kid from New York City’s Lower East [...]
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Book Reviews Jewish Identity
When Torah Teaches Life and Life Teaches Torah (REVIEW)
JNS.org – Rabbi Gordon Tucker spent the first 20 years of his career teaching at the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the next 20 years as the rabbi of Temple Israel Center in White Plains, N.Y. I confess that when I heard about the order of those events, I thought that Tucker’s move from academia to the pulpit was strange. Firstly, I could not imagine anyone filling the place of my friend, Arnold Turetsky, who was such a talented [...]
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Arts and Culture Blogs
Oscars 2015: Reflecting on Love at First Sight
JNS.org – I’m in love, and have been for a long time. It’s a relationship filled with laughter, tears, intrigue, and surprise. It was love at first sight, back when I was a little girl—with an extra-terrestrial that longed to go home. From then on, that love has never wavered, and isn’t reserved for one, but for oh so many—Ferris Bueller, Annie Hall, Tootsie, Harry and Sally, Marty McFly, Atticus Finch, Danny Zuko, Yentl, that little dog Toto, Mrs. Doubtfire, [...]
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Blogs Book Reviews
Examining America’s First Foray into the Middle East (REVIEW)
At the turn of the 21st century through today, American involvement in Middle Eastern politics runs through the Central Intelligence Agency. In America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, historian Hugh Wilford shows this has always been the case. Wilford methodically traces the lives and work of the agency’s three most prominent officers in the Middle East: Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt was the grandson of president Theodore Roosevelt, and the first head of [...]
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Relationships US & Canada
Seniors at Los Angeles Jewish Home Give Witty Dating Advice Ahead of Valentine’s Day (VIDEO)
Residents of the Los Angeles Jewish Home give dating advice to a young Jewish man in a comedic video posted Monday on YouTube just in time for Valentine’s Day. Jonathan, an associate at the Jewish home, quizzes the senior citizens on an array of topics including having sex on the first date, kissing a girl, who should pay for dinner and whether online dating is a good idea. When the 28-year-old asks a male resident named Lee about his experiences [...]
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Arts and Culture Jewish History
Kutsher’s Documentary an Amazing, and Tragic, Look at the Past (REVIEW)
Anyone who spent time in the Jewish Catskills hotels – especially those like me, who returned for decades – must see the new documentary,”Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort.” Not only will the film transport you back to the glory days of your youth and thousands of memories, but it will also make you long for a world that is now lost forever. I returned to Kutsher’s one last time in the summer of 2009, but by then, the [...]
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Education Jewish Identity Lifestyle
Riding the Wave of Change in Part-Time Jewish Education
JNS.org – Amid the numerous studies and analyses regarding Jewish American life, a simple fact remains: part-time Jewish education is the most popular vehicle for Jewish education in North America. Whenever and wherever parents choose Jewish education for their children, we have a communal responsibility to devote the necessary time and resources to deliver dynamic, effective learning experiences. The only way we can do this is by creating space for conversations and knowledge-sharing around innovative new education models. That also [...]
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