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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Josh Lipowsky

Under federal law and the laws of most states, religious organizations are exempt from unemployment insurance taxes. (photo credit: Shutterstock/JTA)
September 9, 2013, 5:20 pm
Is withholding unemployment insurance moral for shuls?
Under US federal law, religious organizations are exempt from this tax, often leaving former employees in the lurch
By Josh Lipowsky
Jewish singles dance to "YMCA" earlier this month at the Club Getaway in Kent, Conn.. (Club Getaway via JTA)
August 21, 2013, 1:28 pm
How to survive a weekend for Jewish singles
JDate-affiliated getaways combine online dating with sleepaway camp — and somehow manage to provide a pretty good time
By Josh Lipowsky
William Rapfogel, left, then the head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the social service agency's annual legislative breakfast in 2008. (photo credit: Metropolitan Council via JTA)
August 17, 2013, 4:09 am
Officials shocked by NY Jewish leader’s firing
With details of financial scandal still to emerge, William Rapfogel’s dismissal from anti-poverty group elicits sharp response
By Josh Lipowsky
Many victims of sex trafficking say they don't choose the life and cannot extricate themselves from it. (Shutterstock via JTA)
August 16, 2013, 7:02 pm
Jewish groups ramp up response to sex trafficking
Community organizations join growing global movement to fight exploitation
By Josh Lipowsky
The May 2013 wedding of Doug Friedlander and Anna Skorupa was the first Jewish nuptials in Helena, Ark., since 1989. (photo credit: Courtesy Doug Friedlander/JTA)
July 30, 2013, 1:04 am
In small-town South, waiting for a Cinderella moment
Jewish newcomers provide an infusion of optimism in minuscule communities that have virtually died off
By Josh Lipowsky
New immigrnats arriving in Israel on Tuesday. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90)
July 23, 2013, 11:03 pm
Foreign Ministry complicating plans for new immigrants to Israel
The six-month labor dispute is causing some potential immigrants to revise their aliya dreams
By Josh Lipowsky
Young Jew plays on a cellphone in a synagogue during morning prayers. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
August 11, 2012, 3:58 am
Looking for a Jewish education? There’s an app for that
Organizations across the spectrum are utilizing mobile and digital technologies to reach new people across multiple platforms
By Josh Lipowsky
Modeling excellence? Baltimore High School students engaging in the Teens Can Identify program, which supports Jewish life and learning in local non-Jewish independent schools. (courtesy TCI program of The Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education in Baltimore/JTA)
August 9, 2012, 5:54 am
Taking outreach to the schools
Though religion in US public schools is a sticky subject, some Jewish leaders are looking to Christian precedents and creating Jewish lunch clubs
By Josh Lipowsky
Sarah Meretsky, second from right, co-director of the Penn State Chabad, runs a number of programs throughout the year with her husband, Rabbi Nosson Meretsky, for the approximately 4,000 Jewish students on the State College campus. (photo credit: Courtesy Chabad of Penn State/JTA)
July 26, 2012, 12:48 am
Penn State’s Jewish community weighs how to move forward
With Jewish students making up 10% of the university population, a blot on former university president Graham Spanier, a champion of Jewish student causes, is a difficult stigma to overcome
By Josh Lipowsky
Palate cleansing pickle. (photo credit: marykbaird, morguefile.com)
July 9, 2012, 10:58 am
The ever-popular Jewish pickle
As July marks National Pickle Month, the 2011 Teaneck Pickle-Eating Champion writes about a longstanding culinary love story
By Josh Lipowsky
Ron Ben-Israel, a former dancer, has gone on to become the host of Food Network's 'Sweet Genius.' (photo credit: Food Network/JTA)
May 16, 2012, 7:51 pm
Israeli pastry chef is fully baked talent behind ‘Sweet Genius’
The Food Network studios are a long way from Ron Ben-Israel’s beginnings… as a ballet dancer in Tel Aviv
By Josh Lipowsky
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