Articles from the July 12, 2013 edition
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Coexistence as seen by world-famous artists, designers
How can art move someone to be more accepting of differences among people? Can what we see change how we feel? Those are the questions that drove The Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem to hold an...
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Israel's haredim respond with prayer facing draft, reduced subsidies
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The large white poster is topped by a screaming headline written in large black letters: “Hell.” Posted on a wall in Jerusalem’s haredi Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood, the sign de...
Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel join workforce
It’s the first day of school for Chani Dickman, an ultra-Orthodox woman in her 40s. She is one of 20 ultra-Orthodox women participating in a training course for medical coding—reading patients charts and diagnoses and assigning the proper codes tha...
Acknowledging failure on sex allegations, Lamm steps down from Y.U.
NEW YORK (JTA)—In his letter announcing he was stepping down as Yeshiva University’s chancellor and rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Norman Lamm acknowledged his failure to respond adequately to allegations of...
New Spirit group trying to keep students in Jerusalem
Tal Shavit, 26, is studying political science at Hebrew University and was looking for a job in Jerusalem for after graduation. She hooked up with New Spirit, a nonprofit trying to encourage students to stay in the holy city after they graduate and...
Common food supplement fights degenerative brain disorders
Many older people already take the compound phosphatidylserine to improve cognition and slow memory loss. There is more good news about this natural food supplement, coming out of an Israeli...
Jewish groups facing obstacles in bid to restore voting protections
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Reps. Eric Cantor and John Lewis stood together recently at a Montgomery, Ala., memorial to martyrs of the civil rights struggle, joining hands to sing “We Shall Overcome.” With...
What 'World War Z' says about Israel
(JTA)—”World War Z” gives us the basics of a summer blockbuster—a star actor worth looking at (Brad Pitt) and a far-fetched action-packed plot (hero races to stop virus that is turning all of humanit...
