http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/ en ss_10000@lycos.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-09T19:12:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/09/3091602/jta-is-hiring Jta http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/09/3091602/jta-is-hiring Spread the word! JTA is hiring for the following positions: 2012-02-09T19:12:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/09/3091593/connecting-the-dots-susan-g-komen-j-street-and-bill-clinton Ami Eden http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/09/3091593/connecting-the-dots-susan-g-komen-j-street-and-bill-clinton Nancy Brinker’s real problem. 2012-02-09T14:06:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/08/3091578/what-would-an-attack-on-israel-look-like-video Uriel Heilman http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/08/3091578/what-would-an-attack-on-israel-look-like-video A video called "The Last Day" that imagines what a future attack on Israel might look like is going viral, with more than 100,000 views since it was uploaded 10 days ago. 2012-02-08T16:03:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/03/3091507/bris-competition-how-many-foreskins-ya-got Uriel Heilman http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/03/3091507/bris-competition-how-many-foreskins-ya-got Back in August, we ran a news item about a mohel in Ukraine who performed his 4,500th circumcision. According to Chabad, which was the source for the story, the mohel, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Yaacov Gaissinovitch, performed 22 in a single day at a Jewish summer camp in Dnepropetrovsk (on Jewish boys who had never been circumcised as infants). 2012-02-03T17:18:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/03/3091502/watch-the-superbowl-halftime-show-of-cultural-misappropriation-online Adam Soclof http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/03/3091502/watch-the-superbowl-halftime-show-of-cultural-misappropriation-online Why in ANY god’s name did scandal-ridden Atlanta megachurch bishop Eddie Long get wrapped in a Torah scroll? And did that guy just say Auschwitz and “Birkendol”? 2012-02-03T15:38:04-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/03/3091495/messianic-rabbi-orders-preacher-wrapped-in-auschwitz-torah Ami Eden http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/02/03/3091495/messianic-rabbi-orders-preacher-wrapped-in-auschwitz-torah The Internet is buzzing over a video showing Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta being wrapped in a Torah and then lifted up on a chair bar mitzvah-style with scroll in hand. 2012-02-03T05:17:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/31/3091450/birthright-funny Uriel Heilman http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/31/3091450/birthright-funny This season of "Eretz Nehederet," Israel’s version of "Saturday Night Live," features a running parody of a Birthright trip to Israel that mocks American Jews for their enthusiasm and naivite (and obesity and JAPpiness, of course) and Israelis for their gold-digging and trigger fingers. Chuckle along: 2012-01-31T21:45:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/31/3091378/comings-and-goings4 Danielle Fleischman http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/31/3091378/comings-and-goings4 Dr. David Rubovits has been named Senior Vice President, Planning and Allocations at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.  He has been working in not-for-profit management, program development and organizational leadership for 23 years. 2012-01-31T14:43:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/27/3091381/alexander-levins-got-a-name-but-does-he-have-a-plan Uriel Heilman http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/27/3091381/alexander-levins-got-a-name-but-does-he-have-a-plan Ukrainian Jewish leader and real estate mogul Alexander L. Levin came to New York this week to launch the latest international Jewish organization with a grandiose name. Called the World Forum for Russian Jewry, this one aims to harness the power of Russian-speaking Jews the world over.  2012-01-27T16:10:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/23/3091304/heschel-on-heschel Ben Harris http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/23/3091304/heschel-on-heschel Susanna Heschel talks with radio host Tavis Smiley about her sabbatical year in Berlin and her father, the late rabbi and civil rights activist Abraham Joshua Heschel.  2012-01-23T15:01:00-05:00