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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Talia Lavin

The Yale University campus (photo credit: CC BY Sarah Ackerman/Flickr)
August 30, 2014, 1:20 am
Yale chaplain blames anti-Semitism on Israel
In response, Jewish history professor at Emory University accuses minister of victim-blaming
By Talia Lavin
Political activist and Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein (screen capture: YouTube/Missouri History Museum)
August 27, 2014, 2:18 am
Does it matter more when a Holocaust survivor speaks for justice?
As victims of a morally indefensible atrocity, survivors command attention for the causes they embrace. So there’s a lot at stake in the definition of ‘survivor’
By Talia Lavin
Members of UCLA’s student government listen to supporters and opponents of a divestment resolution targeting Israel, February 26, 2014. (Courtesy of StandWithUs)
April 30, 2014, 6:11 am
Divestment votes surge but largely fail on US campuses
At some universities, Jewish students find themselves scrambling to counter the lobbying efforts of well-organized pro-Palestinian activists
By Talia Lavin
Paul Stanley performs with KISS in 2003 (photo credit: Adam Bielawski/PRPhotos)
April 13, 2014, 1:47 am
Why KISS won’t make up
Two of the band’s original members are accused of anti-Semitism in new memoir
By Talia Lavin
Julie Sperling working the matzah dough at the Naga Bakehouse in Vermont. (Courtesy Naga Bakehouse via JTA)
April 11, 2014, 6:01 pm
Meet Vermatzah, a Jewish take on the farm-to-table trend
Locally grown and wholesome, the unleavened bread is ‘handmade with fingerprints, and heart, and soul’
By Talia Lavin
A Karaite house of worship in Yevpatoria in Crimea (Wikimedia Commons/JTA)
March 28, 2014, 3:02 am
Crimea’s Karaites give ‘complex’ welcome to Russia
With Crimean roots since 1278, the 800-strong community distances itself from Jews, a move which saved it during the Holocaust
By Talia Lavin
Vladimir Putin with Israeli President Shimon Peres during Peres' official visit to Moscow in 2012. (Mark Neyman/GPO/FLASH90/JTA)
March 15, 2014, 3:59 am
Is love or politics behind Putin’s promotion of Chabad?
Preferential treatment by the Russian leader for the hassidic sect makes it the largest religious force in a secular Jewish community
By Cnaan Liphshiz and Talia Lavin
Menachem Stark, center, with his wife and seven children (photo credit: JTA/courtesy/File)
January 11, 2014, 12:37 am
Menachem Stark, slumlord or saint? Depends who you ask
Ultra-Orthodox media takes a gentler approach to slain Hasid’s death, preferring to ‘shun the negative’ coverage of his life
By Talia Lavin
Ljuba Davis presides over an ensemble of diverse musicians performing music in Ladino (photo credit: JTA)
January 5, 2014, 5:28 am
New life rejuvenates a growing Ladino music scene
The Ljuba Davis Ensemble exudes love for Ladino melodies and language from its pores
By Talia Lavin
LoVid's 'Retzuot (ShinShinAgam)' is a tefillin-inspired video project. (photo credit: Courtesy of LoVid, photo by Yoni Maron)
December 15, 2013, 8:11 pm
Jewish artists push the technological frontier
A group of artists are quoting from science, from digital images of microorganisms to ‘chemical tweets’ of bacterial communication
By Talia Lavin
European Union and Ukrainian national flags fly above a crowd of Pro-European Union activists gathered during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Sergei Grits)
December 9, 2013, 12:48 am
In Ukraine protests, young Jews are marching with ultranationalists
Demonstrators from all sides of political spectrum call to deepen ties with European Union
By Talia Lavin
The problem is unique to Orthodox Judaism, and especially ultra-Orthodoxy. (photo credit: Shutterstock/JTA)
November 30, 2013, 3:45 am
For many agunot, halachic prenups won’t break their chains
The communities that need them the most, say advocates, won’t even consider signing a civil-court linked prenup
By Talia Lavin
Tova Kinderlehrer and her husband, Micah Simmons, are hoping to draw 10 Jewish families to their farm in rural Pennsylvania. (photo credit: JTA)
November 29, 2013, 9:32 pm
Pa. couple hopes to build a Jewish Green Acres
The intentional communities initiative aims to put Jews back in touch with the land via ‘a communitarian way of living’
By Talia Lavin
Rebecca Rosen believes everyone has the power to hear from spirits and guides. (photo credit: Carl Studna/JTA)
November 11, 2013, 3:21 pm
Dialing the dead: Rebecca Rosen is psychic to the stars
The Conservative rabbi’s sister says everyone could potentially speak with the dead and is already training her two young sons
By Talia Lavin
Polyamorous Jews are looking for the acceptance their Jewish gay friends are given. (photo credit: Shutterstock via JTA)
October 18, 2013, 3:13 pm
Polyamorous Jews share love, seek acceptance
Citing the patriarchs as respectable polygamists, Jews with multiple long-term partners are leaving the closet to join the aron hakodesh
By Talia Lavin
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