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Jews of color come together to explore identity

Be'chol Lashon in June 2009 held its first weeklong summer camp for Jews of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds at Walker Creek Ranch, just north of San Francisco. (Diane Tobin / Be\'chol Lashon)

As their numbers grow, mixed-race Jewish families are facing the same question often put to interfaith families: Is there a need for separate programming? The answer, judging by the growth in the field, seems to be yes. Read more »

Does anger over Gaza threaten Turkey-Israel ties?

Turkey's postponement of a planned military exercise including Israel may not be a new crisis but an indication that Turkey's changing domestic and foreign policy considerations are redefining the country's relationship with the Jewish state. Read more » Breaking News Veteran congressman Robert Wexler reportedly is leaving Congress to head a nongovernmental organization promoting Middle East peace. A Jewish group asked authorities in Jackson, Miss., not to host Holocaust denier David Irving. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel and Hamas to launch investigations into allegations in the Goldstone report, a U.N. official told the Security Council. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke with diplomats around the world in advance of a U.N. debate on the Goldstone report. Archeologists discovered footprints underneath a large mosaic in Israel. The future home of a Jewish fraternity in Tennessee was painted with swastikas. Shabbat will come to a Polish synagogue for the first time since the Holocaust. Jews and Muslims should have public holidays in Germany like their Christian counterparts, leaders of the two communities said. Turkey excluded Israel from a NATO military exercise because of Israel's delay in delivering unmanned aerial vehicles to Turkey, a Turkish newspaper reported. The Gaza Strip is in dire need of humanitarian aid, according to the director of operations in Gaza for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Israeli artists are being showcased throughout France in honor of Tel Aviv's 100th birthday. Israel bombed two Gaza smuggling tunnels. Israel will likely deport 1,200 children of foreign workers and their families at the end of the school year. Religious communities: Fight poverty with green jobs Fighting poverty is an important goal of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and so is protecting the environment. The umbrella group is taking on both issues in one fell swoop with its second annual "Fighting Poverty With Faith" initiative. Read more » Editors' Picks The Rubashkin trial: Jury selection, new ownership Sholom Rubashkin, the former manager of the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, had plenty of supporters at the courthouse for the first day of his federal fraud trial. The man who bought the meatpacking plant tells the Des Moines Register that things are running differently now. Wexler's new job The latest buzz on the announcement that Robert Wexler is quitting Congress to become president of S. Daniel Abraham's Center for Middle East Peace. Plus video of the Florida congressman's greatest moment: his interview with Stephen Colbert. Fallen soldier The Forward reports on the death of a Jewish Army captain in Afghanistan -- and the relatively small number of Jews serving in the U.S. military. Turning in sex offenders Brooklyn's haredi Jews, long discouraged by their communities from informing on one another, are turning to law enforcement to deal with child molesters. Misusing Hitler The Republicans promoted a satirical video in which Hitler praises Nancy Pelosi -- and Democrats are mad. But maybe the joke is on both sides since in the end the video appears to be siding with ... Barack Obama.