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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Interviews and Profiles 346 Archived Articles Found in Interviews and Profiles Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Nov 09 2011 'Even If You're Saving The World, There's No Excuse Not To Learn A Little Bit Every Day': An Interview with Longtime Communal Leader Julius Berman By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter This Sunday, Yeshiva University is honoring Rabbi Julius Berman for 50 years of community service. Currently the chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, honorary president of the Orthodox Union, and chairman of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University's rabbinical school (RIETS), Rabbi Berman has headed a dozen Jewish organizations over the last five decades while also working in the law firm of Kaye Scholer, where he has been a partner since 1967. Read Article 2) Posted Nov 02 2011 Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's Jubilee Of Leadership By Yaffi Spodek Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, a son-in-law and student of the legendary Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik - rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University for 45 years - is one of Modern Orthodoxy's most prominent and respected personalities. Read Article 3) Posted Oct 26 2011 'We Want To Break The Leftist Monopoly On Public Discourse In Israel': An Interview with Political Analyst Caroline Glick By Sara Lehmann Laughter really is the best medicine. Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post and senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, has found humor and satire to be valuable tools in making the case for a strong Israel. Her latest venture to that end is Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website Glick created and edits. Read Article 4) Posted Oct 16 2011 'I Regret Some Of The Language I Used': A Conversation with New York City Councilman Brad Lander By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Brit milot are usually straightforward affairs. A mohel performs the ceremony, family and friends sit down to eat, and a speaker or two offers good wishes. When New York City Councilman Brad Lander's son was born, however, matters were not so simple. In addition to the usual blessings a typical set of parents might wish upon their son, Lander and his wife said the following: "[W]e are thrilled to pronounce you a Jew without the Right of Return. Your name contains our deep hope that you will explore and celebrate your Jewish identity without confusing it with nationalism." They also declared, "We pray fervently that by the time you read this, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza will be history." Finally, they deplored that Israel "oppresses daily" many Palestinians. Read Article 5) Posted Sep 27 2011 'We Are Failing To Hear The Call of Hashem': An Interview with Britain's Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter For the last 20 years, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks - chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth - has been one of the most eloquent proponents of traditional Judaism. Since succeeding Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits as chief rabbi in 1991, Rabbi Sacks has inspired countless Jews and non-Jews with his insight, erudition, and mellifluous prose. He has authored and edited over 20 books and writes a weekly column on the parshah, which is carried in The Jewish Press. Read Article 6) Posted Sep 14 2011 One Big Heart: An Innovator In Children's Heart Care Reflects On His Career By Shlomo Greenwald Some problems are good to have. In sports, it's a baseball manager with too many excellent pitchers but able to use only some of them. In education, it's your daughter being accepted to every college she has applied to and now must choose one. In medicine, it's procedures that have worked marvelously to keep children - most of whom used to die very young - alive, and now the field must keep up with new kinds of patients. Read Article 7) Posted Sep 07 2011 **Agunot, DNA Evidence, And Shooting Down Hijacked Planes: An Interview with Rabbi Michael Broyde** By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Agunot - "chained women" - are of two kinds. The first, which has received considerable community attention in recent years, concerns a woman whose husband refuses to grant her a religious bill of divorce. Read Article 8) Posted Aug 31 2011 Turner Vs. Weprin - In Their Own Words The special election to fill New York's 9th Congressional District seat vacated by Anthony Weiner will be held on Tuesday, September 13. The two candidates - Democrat David Weprin, a state assemblyman, and Republican Bob Turner, a successful businessman - recently visited the offices of The Jewish Press on successive days to discuss their positions on various issues. Read Article 9) Posted Aug 24 2011 Internet Radio Comes Alive In Monsey By Fern Sidman Anyone familiar with the history of Jewish talk radio in the U.S. should know the name of Rabbi Yaakov Spivak. Back in the early 1980s Rabbi Spivak began broadcasting on a small AM station in Staten Island with then-partner Zev Brenner; today he commands the airwaves from his state-of-the-art facility in Monsey, New York. Read Article 10) Posted Aug 10 2011 *Lieberman Scaled Political Heights, But Wants Shabbat* To Be His Legacy By Ron Kampeas** WASHINGTON - Call Joe Lieberman the unlikely evangelist. The Independent senator from Connecticut - and the best-known Orthodox Jew in American politics - is probably more cognizant than most of his Jewish congressional colleagues about rabbinical interdictions against encouraging non-Jews to mimic Jewish ritual. Read Article 11) Posted Aug 03 2011 'All Jews Are One Big Extended Family' A Global Jewish Genealogy Project Reveals New Things About Our Jewishness By Steve K. Walz, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Jewish genealogy is no longer a passing fad. The combination of genetic research by scientists, the unearthing of various genizot all over the world, and good old-fashioned groundwork by academicians and people just curious about their heritage has led to some fascinating personal discoveries. Read Article 12) Posted Jul 13 2011 How Did So Many Nazis Escape Justice? An Interview with Historian Gerald Steinacher By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter How did so many Nazis and Nazi collaborators manage to escape Europe after World War II? Who helped them flee and why? What routes did they take on their way to freedom? Read Article 13) Posted Jun 07 2011 Conversion To Judaism: An Interview with Filmmakers Stephen Friedman and Anthony Benjamin By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Converting to Judaism often requires tremendous sacrifice. Relatives may feel rejected, friends can misunderstand, one's children's education is no longer free, and myriads of new laws and customs suddenly make their demands. Yet, despite the many hardships, a handful of non-Jews throughout the ages have persisted and joined the Jewish people. Read Article 14) Posted May 25 2011 'We Want To Create Extraordinary Jewish Leaders': An Interview with Rabbi Avi Schwartz By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter The Palmach, Irgun and Lechi forces that helped kick the British out of Palestine may no longer exist - having all been absorbed into the Israel Defense Forces in 1948 - but their spirit lives on. Next month, Rabbi Avi Schwartz hopes to open the first of three Palmach Torah Training Centers (renamed, as of last week, Shomrei HaAm Centers), which will attempt to transmit the idealism and sacrifice of the Jewish Underground movement to a new generation of American and Israeli teenagers. Read Article 15) Posted May 25 2011 Recollections Of Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine By Dr. Yitzchok Levine Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine, z"l, passed away on the first day of Pesach, one day before his 65th birthday. He was an erudite scholar who had received semicha from the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Theological Seminary and a PhD in economics from New York University. He was equally at home in the world of Torah and in the secular world, and thus a unique combination of Torah and chochmah, something that is increasingly rare today. Furthermore, this intellectual prowess was clothed in a mantel of extreme humility. Read Article 16) Posted May 11 2011 'Tony Kushner Is Disingenuous And Dissembling': An Interview with CUNY Board of Trustees Member Jeffrey Wiesenfeld By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter The decision last week by CUNY's Board of Trustees to deny playwright Tony Kushner an honorary degree sparked an uproar in the media, and Jeffrey Wiesenfeld has been at the center of it. Read Article 17) Posted May 04 2011 Orthodox Optometrist Heads To U.S. Military Base In Afghanistan By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Warren Gross is 56 years old, an Orthodox Jew, a father of four, and a semi-retired optometrist living in Miami Beach. When he signed up for a U.S. army program for health care professionals in 2009 - the Officer Accession Pilot Program - he expected to spend about a month a year volunteering his medical services at local military bases. He certainly was not expecting the phone call he received on an erev Shabbos two months ago. Read Article 18) Posted Apr 28 2011 'We Have Our Holocaust Museum In Our Hearts': Filmmaker Michel Bergmann on Growing Up Jewish in Germany By Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. Michel Bergmann, a bestselling German author and filmmaker, is the son of Holocaust survivors. He is the author, most recently, of Die Teilacher, a novel about German Jews returning to Germany after the Holocaust. The novel draws on his family's own story. Read Article 19) Posted Apr 28 2011 Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine Dies Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine - rabbi of Young Israel of Avenue J in Brooklyn and an economics professor at Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College - died last week. A noted authority on Jewish commercial law, Rabbi Levine's research specialty was the interface between economics and halacha, especially as it relates to public policy and modern business practices. Read Article 20) Posted Apr 18 2011 A Passion For Football - And Israel: An Interview with New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft By Steve K. Walz, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Among the legion of Jewish businessmen who own professional sports franchises across North America, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft stands out for his love of Israel, his devotion to the promotion of American football here, and his numerous entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavors that have benefited the country. 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