Uriel Heilman
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The Gaza fighting is over, but Jewish-Arab violence in Israel still has me afraid
The interethnic clashes raise concerns not only about personal safety for me and other Jewish and Arab families in Israel, but about Israel’s future, JTA's Uriel Heilman writes. → Read More
I was excited for Israel to get back to normal. Then the rockets began to hit.
Two days after my first in-person conference since the pandemic began, I was in a bomb shelter with my family, writes JTA's Uriel Heilman. → Read More
All the ways Biden and Harris (and their families) are making Jewish history on Inauguration Day
The blended Jewish families that will lead the new U.S. administration are not an anomaly — they are emblematic of the story of American Jewry. → Read More
United States of Anxiety: The new fears of American Jews
While the last few months of sickness, civil unrest and political tumult has brought American Jewish anxiety to the fore, it had been building steadily for years, surveys suggest → Read More
Where to go for a vacation in Israel during the summer of coronavirus
There’s nothing Israelis like to do better in August than leave the country. The summertime heat is oppressive, state-subsidized Israeli summer camps have closed by then and many companies encourage or even require employees to take off a certain number of days during the month. But this year, with the coronavirus pandemic raging, Israelis are trapped. The European Union, the preferred… → Read More
How to vacation in Israel in August (or not) during the summer of coronavirus
There’s nothing Israelis like to do better in August than leave the country. The summertime heat is oppressive, state-subsidized Israeli summer camps have closed by then and many companies encourage or even require employees to take off a certain number of days during the month. But this year, with the coronavirus pandemic raging, Israelis are trapped. The European Union, the preferred… → Read More
How the coronavirus is hitting Jewish communities worldwide
A country-by-country breakdown. → Read More
William Helmreich, sociologist of US Jewry and inveterate New Yorker, dies of coronavirus
A longtime professor at the City University of New York, Helmreich wrote more than a dozen books, including his seminal "The World of the Yeshiva." → Read More
The time Israeli security strip-searched me at their embassy in Jordan
(JTA) — “Drop your pants.” The order came curt and clipped, and it caught me by surprise. What?! “Drop your pants,” he repeated sternly. I had been subject to the indignities of Israeli security before, but never this. I was in a holding area of the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, on my way to... → Read More
Seven anti-Semitism controversies surrounding Donald Trump
A closer look at the anti-Semitism controversies surrounding the presumed Republican presidential candidate. Is he enabling anti-Semitism? You be the judge. → Read More
Shmura matzah for Passover: The real reason it’s so expensive
NEW YORK (JTA) – It costs more per pound than filet mignon. It might be burnt or taste like cardboard. It’s so delicate it often breaks in the box, rendering it unfit for Passover ritual use. Yet every year, Jews from Brooklyn to Bnei Brak line up to fork over their hard-earned money to buy... → Read More
Will 2016 be the year of the female Orthodox rabbi?
And other Jewish storylines to watch this year. → Read More
Barry Freundel’s former DC synagogue trying to move past mikvah trauma
More than a year since the rabbi was hauled away in handcuffs for installing secret cameras at his synagogue’s mikvah, his crime still casts a shadow over Kesher Israel. → Read More
Silent night: How the Hasidim observe Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve occupies a special place on the Hasidic calendar as a kind of “silent night,” when Torah study ceases — and then resumes full force at midnight. → Read More
Take JTA’s 2015 news quiz: The ultimate test of Jewish and Israeli knowledge
Bernie Sanders, Jenna Jameson, criminal rabbis: How much do you know about the Jews and their goings on? → Read More
Brandeis’ new president: We are going to pursue diversity
Ronald Liebowitz talked to JTA about Brandeis University’s challenges and Jewish identity — and how he stays looking so young. → Read More
More men making monthly mikvah dunks as menstrual rite
Men immersing in correlation with their partners’ menstrual cycles has been an almost unheard-of practice. → Read More
Reform and Conservative leaders to Israeli president: We want equal rights
Despite their warm reception with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, Reform and Conservative leaders did not paper over their disappointment when it comes to non-Orthodox rights in Israel. → Read More
5 questions to ask after San Bernardino
In Israel, armed civilians stop terrorist attacks. Should that be a model for America? → Read More
Messianic San Bernandino victim was ‘gentile’ supporter of Israel, the Jewish people
Nicholas Thalasinos, killed in the San Bernardino shooting, told an Israeli Facebook friend that while he was not Jewish, he was a supporter of Israel and the Jewish people. → Read More