Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett: Time to annex parts of West Bank
By Uriel Heilman NEW YORK (JTA) – Naftali Bennett, the leader of Israel’s Jewish Home party, has had a few headaches recently. Earlier this week,…
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‘Transparent’ Season 2: How a Jewish trans father inspired a hit series
By Curt Schleier (JTA) — Writer and director Jill Soloway grew up in what she calls a “somewhat normalish, upper middle class Jewish household” in…
Health Forum ignites collaboration among women’s groups
by Deborah Shatz (EJNews) – Over 80 women gathered on November 15 at Beth Israel Synagogue for the 2015 Edmonton Community Women’s Health Forum. With…
Trudeau and Netanyahu meet for the first time in Paris, also Putin
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for the first time on November 39 near Paris where both are attending the…
Op-Ed: Why Conservative Judaism should accept patrilineal Jews
By Charles Simon NEW YORK (JTA) – There’s a lot to celebrate in the Conservative movement, despite the news about our shrinking numbers. Our rabbis…