Modest Answer To American Girl Craze
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Staff Writer There' s a new girl in town (four girls actually) ready to face off against the enormous popularity of American Girl dolls and other models that come baring too...
View ArticleLubavitch's Open Wound At 770
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Staff Writer If ever an architectural feature of a building's exterior stood as a symbol for the life within, then the defaced plaque honoring the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel...
View ArticleConservatives' Rainbow Coalition
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Staff Writer In the week since gay-friendly Conservative rabbis organized themselves, for the first time, into a public group (called Keshet Rabbis) their numbers have nearly...
View ArticleBreast-Feeding Kosher In Shul
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Staff Writer To the truly religious, the Torah is like mother's milk: sustaining and nurturing. Many, however, don't believe the sanctuary is a place where mothers and their...
View Article‘Scary’ Time For Jewish Nonprofits
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Staff Writer Financial headlines are heralding hard times and Jewish newspaper headlines are, too; the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, an international relief...
View ArticleGroup Ends Agriprocessors Boycott
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Staff Writer The main organization urging a boycott against the embattled kosher meat giant Agriprocessors reversed course this week, issuing a statement praising “significant...
View ArticleKeeping Her Eyes On Elderly
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Staff Writer When Vivian Fenster Ehrlich left a career in publishing to become executive director of the nonprofit Dorot, 21 years ago, it had a budget of $700,000 and a staff...
View ArticleFor Kosher Meat Giant, A ‘Dreyfus’ Trial
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Staff Writer If answers aren’t exactly forthcoming from Postville, well then, people are going to Postville to try and seek them out.A veritable parade of Jews — busloads from...
View ArticleGiving Back
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen Special to the Jewish Week Hers was a busy home while Hadassah Freilich was growing up in Gardener, Mass. With her father the rabbi of an Orthodox synagogue and her mother busy...
View ArticleWhen Religion Is Used as a Cudgel
by Rabbi Gerald Skolnik Special to the Jewish Week The one-two punch of Debra Nussbaum Cohen’s front-page article in The Jewish Week (RCA Seen Caving on Conversions, February 29) and Gershom...
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