Posts Tagged: Rabbi Rick Jacobs
Jewish World, Israeli Leaders React to Attempted Assassination of Trump
Israeli leaders and major Jewish and pro-Israel organizations reacted swiftly to the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump's life, stating unequivocally that political...
New York City Commission on Human Rights Launches Campaign Against Antisemitism
The New York City Commission on Human Rights is launching a campaign to combat antisemitism. A wave of antisemitic attacks have struck the New York City...
New York Times Faulted for ‘Irredeemable and Indefensible’ Coverage of British Chief Rabbi
The New York Times is drawing criticism for its handling of a warning by British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis about antisemitism in the British Labour...
A Promise That Should Be Kept
The leader of the Reform movement of Judaism just opened the door to a machloket l’shem shamayim – an argument for the sake of heaven – that,...
Debate Over J Street and Conference of Presidents Hits the Presses
JNS.org - Members of Reform and Conservative synagogues have signed on to recent full-page advertisements in Jewish newspapers around the country, blasting their denomination's...
J Street Rejected by American Jewish Umbrella Group in ‘Big Tent’ Litmus Test
JNS.org - In what many observers will see as the de facto expression of mainstream U.S. Jewry's outlook on J Street, members of the...
Letter to Netanyahu from U.S. Jewish Activists Challenged
The Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) has sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking him to disregard advice in a Wednesday letter...
Reform Leader Sees GA as Synergy of Federation and Synagogue Worlds (INTERVIEW)
BALTIMORE—Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of the Reform movement's congregational arm, was an atypical choice as scholar-in-residence for the 2012 Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA)...
Mona Eltahawy Defends Jihad: We are all Proud Savages Now!
On Tuesday, the prominent Egyptian-American writer Mona Eltahawy informed her almost 160,000 Twitter followers in no uncertain terms that she was incensed by an advertisement...
