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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 11, 2018

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#Metoo

#MeToo List Circulating In Jewish Nonprofit World

By Hannah Dreyfus

‘Many of the names are easily recognizable,’ according to those who have seen it.

New OU statement takes no action against four member synagogues with female clergy, but prohibits future hires. Credit Shulamit Seidler-Feller

After New OU Ruling, ‘Business As Usual’ At Orthodox Women’s Rabbinical School

By Hannah Dreyfus

No action taken on member synagogues with female clergy, but prohibition against future hires remains in place as Maharat graduates continue to pursue the pulpit.

Aimee Buchanan competing for Israel at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 16, 2016. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Getty Images)

Olympian Aimee Buchanan Is From Boston Via Dallas, But She Is Skating For Israel

“The country is who you are, not what you’re doing.”

TravelGangwon Province, Beyond The Games

By Hilary Danailova

Athletes To Watch At The Winter Olympics

By Steve Lipman

No Thin Ice At Winter Games

By Steve Lipman

Dr. Russell White, with a young cardiac patient, won the second Gerson L’Chaim Prize for medical missionaries for his service in rural Kenya.

‘Doing God’s Work’ In Rural Africa

By Steve Lipman

Upper West Side couple’s prize funds modern-day Albert Schweitzers.

Yael Shy leads a meditation practice at MNDFL in NYC. Courtesy of Yael Shy

New York State Of Mindfulness

By Miriam Groner

Wherein our intrepid reporter spends a week in search of that meditation high.

For Aphasia Sufferers, Yoga As Healing

By Robert Wiener

Spiritual Healing

By Elaine Durbach

Shining A Light On Diabetes Treatment

By Michele Chabin

Part of “The Butterfly Project” exhibition at the United Nations. Courtesy of Holocaust Museum Houston

U.N. Hosts Shoah Exhibit, But Does It Fly?

By Jonathan Mark

The exhibit runs risk of diluting Jewish experience during the Holocaust.

Vice President Mike Pence addressed some 18,000 delegates at the 2017 AIPAC conference, its largest crowd ever. Getty Images

Editor's Desk

Is Israel Losing The Democratic Party?

By Gary Rosenblatt

With Democrat-Republican gap widening on Israel, a test of bipartisanship in Trump era.

Polish President Andrzej Duda. Getty Images

Analysis

For Israel, Less Should Have Been More On Poland Law

By Nathan Jeffay

Jerusalem should have held back and had others take the lead on the Holocaust bill.

The entrance to Auschwitz. JTA

OpinionOnce Again With Poland: Whose Holocaust Is This?

By Thane Rosenbaum

Sam Bloch, then president of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations. speaking during a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the German concentration camp on April 17, 2005. JTA

In Memoriam

Sam Bloch, Shoah Survivor Devoted To Remembrance, Dies At 93

By Steve Lipman

‘We cherish our lives; they were so hard won,’ the writer, linguist and Jewish communal leader once said.

Sam Bloch: Survived the Holocaust, dedicating his life to preserving its memory. Getty Images

EditorialsA Survivor Who Worked Tirelessly So Shoah Memories Could Live On

By Jewish Week Editors

Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg: “We have a lot of work to do on benefits.” YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

Orthodox Rabbi Survey Shows Moderate Pay, But Few Benefits

By Steve Lipman

Majority of spiritual leaders do not receive health, life or disability insurance.

Ken Bob (Chair, Project Rozana America) with the two doctors at a briefing room on Capitol Hill. Courtesy of Project Rozana

Building Bridges Through Medicine

By Doug Chandler

Five years in, Project Rozana makes Mideast politics personal.

Most Israel-based African asylum-seekers live in South Tel Aviv in squalid conditions. Michele Chabin/JW

South Tel Avivians Push Back Against Asylum-Seekers

By Michele Chabin

‘Now I live in a ghetto,’ says a longtime resident as neighborhood changes.

Osher Barayev, left, Aziz Rajabiy, Ulmas Olloberganov and Tahir Rajabiy at International Shash-Maqam Forever concert. Chrystie Sherman

Jewish, Muslim Musicians: We’ll Always Have Tashkent

By Sandee Brawarsky

Known for their ferocious physicality, the theater/dance troupe Bryn Cohn + Artists presents its first evening of repertory. Courtesy

NYC Jewish-y Events, February 9 – 18

David Yazbek Live, Frank London and John Zorn Residencies and more!

Via Pixabay.

Fresh Ink for Teens

Kitchen Culture And Me

Can I fight against the pervasiveness of women in traditionally feminine activities, while actually preferring those ‘feminine’ activities myself?

JDAIM. Courtesy of Shelly Christensen

The New Normal

Celebrate Jewish Disability Awareness & Inclusion Month In Your Synagogue

By Rabbi Edythe Held Mencher and L.C.S.W.

Great ways to support inclusion during JDAIM–and through the year.

36 Under 36

Know An Activist, Educator, Artist, Change-Maker Shaping NY Jewish Life?

By Jewish Week staff

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. Getty Images

First Person

How Can I convey King’s Message To My Students During Black History Month?

By Merrill Silver

They, too, have a dream — in English.

Eva Lavi, who was 2 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland, addressing the United Nations last week.
Courtesy of the Israeli mission to the UN

Youngest Schindler’s List Survivor Still Telling Her Story

Addresses UN after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

More Headlines

Instructor Tami Rager, center, leads yoga class at Adler Aphasia Center in JCC of MetroWest in West Orange, N.J. Photos by Robert Wiener

For Aphasia Sufferers, Yoga As Healing

By Robert Wiener

Rivoli, Algeria, Passover feast, 1947. Photo: Yad Vashem

Algerian Jewish Holocaust Survivors Now Eligible For Compensation

Sam Bloch: Survived the Holocaust, dedicating his life to preserving its memory. Getty Images

EditorialsA Survivor Who Worked Tirelessly So Shoah Memories Could Live On

By Jewish Week Editors

Elaine Luria at the Norfolk, Va., shop she owns called the Mermaid Factory. (Courtesy of the Luria campaign)

This Navy Commander Organized A Seder On An Aircraft Carrier. Now She’s Running For Congress.

The entrance to Auschwitz. JTA

OpinionOnce Again With Poland: Whose Holocaust Is This?

By Thane Rosenbaum

An exhibit in “The Butterfly Project” exhibition at the United Nations earlier this year. Courtesy of Holocaust Museum Houston

EditorialThe Shoah’s Long Shadow

By Jewish Week Editors

Professor Naim Shehadeh, director of the Institute of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
Pioter Fliter

Shining A Light On Diabetes Treatment

By Michele Chabin

Mennel Ibtissem performed “Hallelujah” on France’s version of “The Voice.” (Facebook)

Everyone Loved This French-Muslim Singer’s Leonard Cohen Cover. Then They Read Her Facebook Posts.

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The 1,800-year-old Roman mosaic uncovered in Caesarea is undergoing conservation work by the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

1,800-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Uncovered In Israeli Park ‘Of Rare High Quality’

By JTA

Uri Nir’s research has identified an enzyme that could prevent spread of cancer cells.
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY

Attacking The Spread Of Cancer Cells

OpinionJewish Law’s Positive View On Contraception

By Michal Raucher

The author's children with their dog Ollie. Courtesy of Nina Moglinik

The New NormalAutism, Parenting And Our Pets

By Nina Mogilnik

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