Personalities
Yeshiva University, Wiesenthal Center Leaders are Highest-Paid Jewish Non-Profit Executives
JNS.org - Yeshiva University President Richard Joel ($855,037) and Simon Wiesenthal Center Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier ($751,054) topped the Forward newspaper's 2013 list of the...
Professor Denied University of Haifa Honorary Doctorate Over Politics
JNS.org - The University of Haifa's Executive Committee said it decided not to grant an honorary doctorate to Professor Robert Aumann, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 2005,...
ADL Commends Time’s Selection of Pope Francis as ‘Person of the Year’
JNS.org - Time magazine's selection of Pope Francis as its "Person of the Year" drew praise from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The pontiff, whose popularity has soared as a result of his outspoken back-to-basics message...
Mazel Tov Gal Gadot
A major Mazel Tov is due to actress Gal Gadot. The Israeli-born brunette beauty has just been chosen to play Wonder Woman in the upcoming movie Batman vs. Superman. While the former Miss Israel is...
Who Will Represent Israel at Mandela’s Funeral? (UPDATE)
With former South African President Nelson Mandela scheduled to be laid to rest Tuesday in...
Mandela and Me
The title to this column is deliberately misleading. There never was a Mandela and me....
Nelson Mandela: The Anatomy of a Great Leader
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks recently wrote this about leadership: Leaders are also human and they make mistakes...
Legendary Israeli Singer Arik Einstein Dies
JNS.org - Legendary Israeli singer Arik Einstein, 74, died Tuesday after being admitted to the...
IDF Recalls Seton Hall Basketball Sophomore Tommy Maayan to Complete Military Service
The Israel Defense Forces has recalled Seton Hall sophomore and rising basketball star Tommy Maayan,...
Yeshiva University, Wiesenthal Center Leaders are Highest-Paid Jewish Non-Profit Executives
JNS.org - Yeshiva University President Richard Joel ($855,037) and Simon Wiesenthal Center Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier ($751,054) topped the Forward newspaper's 2013 list of the highest-paid...
Professor Denied University of Haifa Honorary Doctorate Over Politics
JNS.org - The University of Haifa's Executive Committee said it decided not to grant an honorary doctorate to Professor Robert Aumann,...
ADL Commends Time’s Selection of Pope Francis as ‘Person of the Year’
JNS.org - Time magazine's selection of Pope Francis as its "Person of the Year" drew praise from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The pontiff, whose popularity...
Mazel Tov Gal Gadot
A major Mazel Tov is due to actress Gal Gadot. The Israeli-born brunette beauty has just been chosen to play Wonder Woman in the upcoming...
Who Will Represent Israel at Mandela’s Funeral? (UPDATE)
With former South African President Nelson Mandela scheduled to be laid to rest Tuesday in Johannesburg, it is still unclear who - if anyone - will...
Mandela and Me
The title to this column is deliberately misleading. There never was a Mandela and me. I never met the great African leader. I never saw...
Nelson Mandela: The Anatomy of a Great Leader
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks recently wrote this about leadership: Leaders are also human and they make mistakes that have nothing to do with leadership and everything to...
Legendary Israeli Singer Arik Einstein Dies
JNS.org - Legendary Israeli singer Arik Einstein, 74, died Tuesday after being admitted to the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv suffering a hemorrhage in...
IDF Recalls Seton Hall Basketball Sophomore Tommy Maayan to Complete Military Service
The Israel Defense Forces has recalled Seton Hall sophomore and rising basketball star Tommy Maayan, from Israel's Galilee, to complete his military service, the New York...
Bob Dylan Meets Opera in Eclectic Israeli Band’s Tribute Album
JNS.org - From Joan Baez to the Grateful Dead, scores of popular artists have tried to take legendary Bob Dylan's work to new audiences...
Rapper Kosha Dillz on His Jewish Identity and the Music Industry (INTERVIEW)
Out of all the Jewish rappers with a Jewish mission and identity, Kosha Dillz is the only one to have been so widely accepted by...
Trainer of IDF Paramedics Discusses Life-Saving Improvisation (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - LOS ANGELES—For Israel Defense Forces Lt. Anastasia Bagdalov, there was no time to ponder the gunshot that penetrated both legs of a...
Paula Abdul to Celebrate Her Bat Mitzvah at Western Wall
JNS.org - Singer, dancer, choreographer and celebrity judge Paula Abdul is coming to Israel this week as a guest of the Israeli Tourism Ministry. Yedioth...
Report: Simon Cowell, Lauren Silverman Agree on Jewish Wedding; Cowell Taking Israeli Dance Lessons
Simon Cowell, music mogul and host of "The X Factor," and his pregnant girlfriend Lauren Silverman plan to celebrate a Jewish wedding, sources close to the...
