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The Fundermentalist

Galperin to leave D.C. federation to take senior spot with JAFI

Misha Galperin has notified the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington that he will leave his post as the federation’s CEO this summer to take a position at the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Capital J

Barnea: U.S. Jewish leaders press Bibi to block NIF probe

Yediot’s Nahum Barnea, by many accounts Israel’s most respected political columnist, reports that U.S. Jewish communal figures weighed in with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin against a Knesset investiagtion of the New Israel Fund

The Telegraph

A nuclear Iran: Good for America?

Adam Lowther argues that a nuclear Iran could be good for America. Uriel Heilman warns against such wishful thinking.

The Wandering Jew

Guest Post: Final Thoughts from Panama

Rabbi Joshua Kullock with some final observation about the UJCL convention, held last week in Panama.

GA 2009 Student Blogs

On dialogue

Why are we here? Well, the answer after Monday tonight is apparent: to develop new tools for engaging with our fellow Jews, and to identify new ways of fixing our communities. 

Quibbles and Kibbitz - The JTA Letters to the editor Blog

Dershowitz went too far in slamming Goldstone

Americans for Peace Now CEO Debra DeLee chastises Alan Dershowitz for his “character assassination” of Judge Richard Goldstone. 

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