May 28, 2010 10:57 am Conservatives’ ethical seal nearing kosher marketplace Counterintuitive as the need for that statement about kosher certification might sound, it was just one of the points about the Conservative movement’s planned ethical seal that the group responsible for the certification wanted to clarify at this week’s gathering of Conservative rabbis in New York. The Hekhsher Tzedek Commission announced at this week’s Rabbinical […] By Amy Klein
May 28, 2010 10:50 am ZAKA expanding Arab units JERUSALEM ““ At the scene of terrorist attacks, accidents, and even homicides, most Israelis are used to the sight of ZAKA volunteers – Orthodox men working to save lives or recover body parts of the dead. What they may not know is that ZAKA, Israel’s Orthodox-run life-saving, rescue and recovery service, also has a minorities […] By Amy Klein
November 23, 2009 3:36 am Orthodox students are embracing social action Yeshiva University students getting a lesson on how to repair and paint streets in urban Houston. Yeshiva University NEW YORK ““ A few months after Hurricane Ike hit Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, Yeshiva University student David Eckstein went to the devastated area with 32 other students to help rebuild homes. “The doors hadn’t been […] By Amy Klein
September 6, 2009 11:02 pm Ruth Messinger: We must help, and in the right ways Shortly after a failed mayoral bid in New York City ended her political career in 1997, Ruth Messinger became president of the American Jewish World Service, an international human rights organization that works to alleviate poverty, hunger, and disease in the developing world. Since then, the organization has seen its annual budget jump from $2 […] By Amy Klein
April 24, 2009 2:57 pm Zachor: Remembrance and resistance Denying the deniers: Q&A with Deborah Lipstadt By Amy Klein
April 3, 2009 2:58 pm Seders focus on freedom, hunger, the Earth On April 5, 1968, Arthur Waskow was walking to his house in Washington, D.C., among rioters and armed guards. It was a neighborhood under curfew, the night after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Waskow, who had been involved in the civil rights movement, spent the week ferrying food, medical supplies, and doctors […] By Amy Klein