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Topic: Diaspora

April 18, 2013
9:08 am

Firestone named president of Genesis Prize Foundation

The annual ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’ of $1m. aims to honor individuals whose success has been informed by their Jewish values

March 17, 2013
2:07 pm

A mourner, a comforter, a lesson re-learned

The best hope for Diaspora Jewish life lies in the communal interdependence of helping and being helped

By Dan Ornstein

March 17, 2013
12:34 pm

Israel's top athletes, from left: Aleksander Averbukh (pole vault), Neta Rivkin (rhythmic gymastics), and Itai Chammah (swimming). All three have represented Israel at the Olympics and are partaking in the Maccabiah Games this summer. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

History in the making at the 19th Maccabiah Games

Israeli athletes Neta Rivkin and Aleksander Averbukh weigh in on Jews and sports, and why it’ll be an honor to compete in Israel this July

By Michal Shmulovich

March 13, 2013
7:01 pm

Israel: Stop stringing us along

Keep telling the majority of world Jewry they’re less equal than the Orthodox and they may just give up the courtship

By Rina Ne'eman

February 27, 2013
3:51 am

Painted between 1970 and 1984, R.B. Kitaj's "Desk Murder" reflected on the bureaucracy that set the Holocaust in motion. (Birmingham Museums Trust)

London shows probe artist’s Holocaust ‘Obsessions’

R.B. Kitaj’s provocative, polarizing paintings return to public view in the first major retrospective since his 2007 suicide

By Anne Joseph

December 20, 2012
12:20 pm

How dare you tell Israel to take a chance on peace

As long as it is their sons, not ours, who are on the front lines, only Israelis have the right to advise their government

By Mark S. Miller

November 19, 2012
11:45 am

Response to Gordis: a simplistic misreading of history

Rabbi Brous’s message reflects a long tradition of harmony between Zionist and universal ideals

By David N. Myers

November 18, 2012
11:35 pm

When balance becomes betrayal

We are utterly abandoned by those who ought to be unabashedly at our side

By Daniel Gordis

November 9, 2012
2:20 pm

Bringing the Inquisition’s victims back into the fold

When a rabbi says the real Jews are the dead ones

By Barbara Aiello

October 10, 2012
1:16 pm

Israeli actress, producer, and model Noa Tishby (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

‘Everyone brings someone’ to Israel in new tourism campaign

Effort utilizes people-to-people connections, through videos and digital postcards, to urge those abroad to come for a visit

By Michal Shmulovich

September 6, 2012
3:49 pm

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (photo credit: CC BY The National Guard, Flickr)

US Homeland Security runs threat response exercise with Jewish leaders

The program features simulations of attacks on Jews and Israelis in the Diaspora

September 6, 2012
9:12 am

Frisians in traditional garb celebrating Fisherman's Day in Harlingen, Aug. 31, 2012. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz)

New Dutch translation of Talmud is a tribute to Friesland’s nearly vanished Jews

In the northern Netherlands, a community that has dwindled to 50 celebrates a unique form of Judaism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

June 27, 2012
4:16 am

Young Diaspora Jews participating in a Taglit Birthright event at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem in January, 2012. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Israelis eager for Diaspora relations, divided on US role in peace process

B’nai B’rith survey shows deep connection between Jews in Israel and those abroad

By Times of Israel staff

February 12, 2012
7:33 am

from left to right: Chief Rabbi Kaplan, community president Jasha Alfandri, Prime Minister Igor Lukšić (photo credit: Meir Alfasi)

Barely a minyan, but official recognition

Since last week Judaism is one of four official religions in Montenegro, a nation of 625,000. Now all the country needs is Jews who actually live there

By Raphael Ahren

January 30, 2012
6:18 pm

Mending the state of the Jews

Picking apart the monopoly of the Chief Rabbinate is a task for the entire Jewish nation, including the Diaspora

By Ariel Beery

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