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Independent minyanim growing rapidly, and the Jewish world is noticing

At a Nov. 10, 2008 conference at Brandeis University on independent minyanim, participants take a moment for prayer. (Ben Harris)

Though the minyanim by nature are independent of the mainstream institutions of Jewish religious life, their rapid growth has made them difficult to ignore. Read more »

Rubashkin arrested again

Sholom Rubashkin has been arrested for the second time in three weeks. Read more »

Op-Ed: Help Ethiopians in Israel, not the Falash Mura

The continued immigration of Falash Mura does a disservice to the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel, write the former presidents of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews. Read more »

Editors' Picks 11/14 The Jerusalem Post wonders what the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would look like with Russ Feingold as chairman. The Forward and the New Republic with lists of D.C. Jews. Is Rahm Emanuel the "new 21st century American Jew"? Another lawsuit in the Franken-Coleman race. Kosher meat shortage intensifying Two news reports out of the Midwest represent the first of what will likely amount to scores of stories about the difficulty of obtaining kosher meat in the wake of Agriprocessors' filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Promoting Arab-Israeli Films The New York Times interviews smoked fish maven Carole Zabar about her support for a film festival focusing on Israeli Arabs. As for the Israeli Consulate in New York... not so much, JTA's Ben Harris reports. Olmert gave the wrong speech Few brief occasions have encapsulated Ehud Olmert's mishandling of the role of prime minister as thoroughly as his remarks on Monday marking 13 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, says the editor of the Jerusalem Post. Breaking News Ehud Barak said the situation on the Israel- Gaza Strip border was "unacceptable" after a barrage of rocket attacks. The Bush administration ignored a direct appeal from Hamas to broker a long-term truce with Israel. President Bush had an impromptu meeting with Tzipi Livni and Shimon Peres at the United Nations. Agudath Israel of America registered 18,000 new U.S. voters in the United States and Israel before the U.S. elections. Oxford University is investigating its rugby team for throwing a party with anti-Semitic themes. Hungarian police are investigating an act of vandalism against a Budapest synagogue. The Zionist Organization of America and 200 Israeli chief rabbis asked President Bush to pardon Jonathan Pollard. French authorities are seeking the extradition of a man suspected in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue. Three creditors of a bankrupt kosher meat producer want court hearings moved to Iowa from New York. The Israeli army will court-martial four soldiers filmed taunting a bound and blindfolded Palestinian. Plans by Britain to label products from the West Bank are reportedly causing tensions with Israel. Palestinians blasted Israel's reported approval of hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements.