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Dr. Ben Kempner, Sir! Frum Physician Goes Navy

by Bayla Sheva Brenner | February 12, 2012 in People

Navy Lieutenant Ben Kempner, thirty-two, wrestles with being a yarmulke-wearing, kosher-eating anomaly at work and a uniformed attraction sporting a crew cut in his Jewish community. Fearlessly… Read more

My Son, the Investigator

by Bayla Sheva Brenner | February 12, 2012 in People

While most MBA graduates head directly for the corporate world, one idealist took a decidedly different turn. He’s happily blending his business acumen with his yen for public service—at the FBI. A… Read more

Speaking with Rabbi Israel Meir Lau

by Michael Freund | December 7, 2011 in Israel

Journalist Michael Freund converses with Israel’s former chief rabbi about the Israeli scene, anti-Semitism, and the recent translation into English of his remarkable memoir Out of the Depths: The… Read more

Chaim Grade’s Centenary

by JA Mag | December 7, 2011 in Jewish World

In his writings, Chaim Grade conveys a picture of Eastern European Jewry that he knew so well. While he was, by his own admission, far from observant, his artistic achievements are widely recognized.… Read more

Up-Close with Ruth Lichtenstein

by JA Mag | August 17, 2011 in People

Jewish businessmen forced to parade down a street in Leipzig carrying signs that read, “Don’t buy from Jews. Shop at German stores!” Photo from United States Holocaust Memorial… Read more

Inside the Mind of the Chazzan: A Conversation with Cantor Joseph Malovany

by David Olivestone | August 17, 2011 in People

Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Cantor Joseph (Yossi) Malovany has been the chazzan at Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue Synagogue for the past thirty-eight years. Born in Tel Aviv, he studied at the Bilu… Read more

The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of Sabbath

by JA Mag | May 26, 2011 in Business & Politics

The Politics of Faith What are the challenges that religious Jews in the upper echelons of government face? In the pages ahead, Senator Joseph Lieberman, the most high-profile Shabbat-observant Jew in… Read more

Up Close with Yehuda Avner

by Michael Freund | May 26, 2011 in Israel

Photos from The Prime Ministers, reprinted with permission from The Toby Press. Photo: Jono David Sitting in his private office in Jerusalem, Yehuda Avner still carries himself like a polished… Read more

The Super Mashgiach: Rabbi Chaim Goldzweig

by Bayla Sheva Brenner | May 26, 2011 in Kashrut

Rabbi Chaim Goldzweig Photo: Joe Kus at the Chicago Jewish News Before PCs, iPads and iPods, there was Rabbi Chaim Goldzweig. An Orthodox Union rabbinic field representative who recently marked his… Read more

Heimish in the White House

by Yaakov D. Homnick | March 1, 2011 in Jewish World

Leaders on the Hill Part II of our series on a new crop of young American Orthodox political leaders—all under forty-five—who are working to improve American life and society. At a rabbinical… Read more

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