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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Interviews and Profiles 301 Archived Articles Found in Interviews and Profiles Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Sep 07 2010 'Austria Will Never Forget What Happened To The Jews': An Interview with Austrian Consul General Ernst-Peter Brezovszky By Daniel Retter Daniel Retter's father, Marcus Retter, z"l, escaped from Vienna to England in 1938 on the Kindertransport. His father's parents and sister were deported from Vienna to Riga, where they were murdered by the Germans and Latvians. He says that since his father should have been the one asking some of the following questions, the interview is dedicated to his memory. Read Article 2) Posted Sep 01 2010 'Jews, Not Palestinians, Are Israel's Indigenous People': An Interview with Shas Founder Nissim Zeev By Sara Lehmann MK Nissim Zeev (sometimes spelled Ze'ev) established the Shas Party in 1983 as a response to the discrimination faced by Israel's Sephardic population. He served as deputy mayor of Jerusalem from 1983-1998 and has been a Member of Knesset since 1999. Read Article 3) Posted Aug 25 2010 What I Learned About America On My Summer Vacation: An Interview With MK Uri Orbach By Steve K. Walz, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent In the less than two years since he gave up his full-time job as a print and radio journalist, Uri Orbach, 50, has distinguished himself as an indefatigable parliamentarian for the Religious Zionist Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party, which sits in Prime Minister Netanyahu's coalition government. Read Article 4) Posted Aug 18 2010 'This Is My State. I'm An Israeli Patriot': An Interview with Druze MK Ayoub Kara By Sara Lehmann Non-Jews are no strangers to Israel's policy of inclusivity in its government. What is strange is finding a non-Jewish Knesset member who is more Zionistic than most of his fellow parliamentarians. Ayoub Kara, a Druze Likud Knesset minister, is proud to consider himself one of the most "right wing" members of the Knesset. Read Article 5) Posted Aug 11 2010 From Lakewood To Yeshiva University: An Interview With Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter "From the age of 12," Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff told The Jewish Press in a recent interview, "I had one dream: to be a tzaddik, a gaon, and a melamed. I never became a tzaddik, I never became a gaon, but I did become a melamed, nodeh l'Hakadosh Baruch Hu." Read Article 6) Posted Aug 04 2010 Ze'ev Jabotinsky: 70 Years Since The Passing Of An Exceptional Zionist By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter A portrait of Ze'ev Jabotinsky may still adorn Likud conventions in Israel, but the ideas of this great Zionist leader - who passed away 70 years ago this week - are essentially forgotten and/or ignored. Read Article 7) Posted Aug 04 2010 Israeli Basketball Star Doron Sheffer Tells Of Return To Judaism By Hillel Fendel JERUSALEM - Doron Sheffer, 37, one of Israel's greatest basketball players, shared his story of return to religious observance with a group of Jewish educators. Read Article 8) Posted Jul 28 2010 'I Never Ran So Fast In My Life': An Interview With Holocaust Survivor and ZOA Official Larry Wenig By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Sixty-five years ago next month - on August 11, 1945 - Polish-born Holocaust survivor Larry Wenig vowed to utilize all of his talents toward creating a Jewish state in Palestine. Read Article 9) Posted Jul 21 2010 'There's A Double Standard When It Comes To Israel': An interview with GOP senatorial candidate Jay Townsend By Fern Sidman The November midterm elections may well alter the political face of this country. Opponents of Obama administration policies have galvanized their forces and are eager to make their voices heard to the American electorate. One of those people is Jay Townsend, a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate from New York who will be seeking to unseat incumbent Sen. Charles Schumer. Read Article 10) Posted Jul 21 2010 At The Rebbe's Side: On the 20th Yahrzeit of Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht By Berel Jacobs Many people knew him as Rabbi Hecht. His brothers called him Yank. To most of us he was J.J. - the man who, year after year, we saw standing at the Lubavitcher Rebbe's side for hours, no matter the weather, at the Lag B'Omer parade. Read Article 11) Posted Jul 14 2010 Rabbi Amital Remembered As Symbol Of An Era By Maayana Miskin JERUSALEM - Rabbi Yehuda Amital died July 9 at the age of 86. He was among the heads of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut, and among the creators of the Meimad political stream. Read Article 12) Posted Jul 14 2010 Helping The Jews Of Marine Park By Avi Spitzer During the day, Shea Rubenstein works in real estate development. In the evenings he helps run the Jewish Community Council of Marine Park, an organization he helped establish, to meet the needs of the local community, as its executive vice president. Read Article 13) Posted Jul 07 2010 'America Is Better Served By A Religiously Vibrant Christianity' An Interview with Rabbi Daniel Lapin By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter To some non-Jews, he is simply "America's rabbi." Rabbi Daniel Lapin - great-nephew of the widely revered mussarpersonality, Reb Elya Lapian - lectures across America to audiences both Jewish and Christian, produces audio CDs on such issues as marriage, the Ten Commandments, and the ill effects of vulgar speech, and disseminates a weekly e-mail called Thought Tools. Read Article 14) Posted Jun 23 2010 'The Time Has Come For Us To Stop Beating Ourselves': An interview with Shas Chairman Eli Yishai By Sara Lehmann Though Sephardim are a small percentage of worldwide Jewry, they constitute a majority of Jews living in Israel today. Shas, the Israeli political party representing Orthodox and traditional Sephardim, has become a political powerhouse since its founding in 1984 by former Sephardic chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Read Article 15) Posted Jun 16 2010 'The World Is Crazy And Netanyahu's Under A Lot Of Pressure': An interview with the Jerusalem Post's Gil Hoffman By Sara Lehmann With the influence of news writers almost rivaling that of newsmakers, especially in the Middle East, Gil Hoffman has a pivotal position as chief political correspondent and analyst for the Jerusalem Post. Hoffman is closely connected with both Israeli and Palestinian leaders, has interviewed every major figure across the Israeli political spectrum, and is a regular analyst on CNN, Al Jazeera and other news outlets. Read Article 16) Posted Jun 09 2010 Jamaican Hip-Hopper Turned Orthodox Jew: A Candid Talk With Yoseph Robinson By Mark Creeker At the height of his musical success and while indulging in all the material abundance Hollywood had to offer, Yoseph chanced upon a Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch edition of the Chumash. Yoseph's life was transformed. He decided to reject the emptiness and egotism of the Hollywood lifestyle and embrace Yiddishkeit. Yoseph converted to Judaism and now lives in Brooklyn as an Orthodox Jew. Read Article 17) Posted May 26 2010 'Her Heart And Soul Are Wrapped Up In Love Of Israel': An Interview with the Founder of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Perhaps it was inevitable. Ever since her address at the Republican National Convention two years ago, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been popular among many Orthodox Jews. A month after the convention, a "Sarah Palin Wig" went on sale on Sheitel.com. Now, as worry increases in the Jewish community over President Obama's Middle East policies, a group of Jews have banded together to create Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin (JewsforSarah.com). Read Article 18) Posted May 18 2010 Probing Kashrut Pitfalls In Jerusalem: An Interview with Investigative Journalist Yechiel Spira By Steve K. Walz, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Yechiel Spira is part of a new breed of Internet-based Orthodox investigative journalist. The native New Yorker, who made aliyah in 1984, is on the front lines of Jerusalem's "almost anything goes" kosher-food industry via his Jerusalem Kosher News website (www.jerusalemkoshernews.com). Read Article 19) Posted May 12 2010 'The Outlook For Israel Is Very Grave': An Interview with AFSI's Rael Jean Isaac By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Rael Jean Isaac was in the right place at the right time. Forty years ago, she found herself in Israel together with her husband, studying the various activist groups that had sprung up in Israel in the wake of the Six-Day War. Some argued for returning the lands won during the war; others, for keeping them. While researching the different movements for her doctoral thesis, she and her husband met veteran right-wing activist Shmuel Katz. The rest is history. Read Article 20) Posted Apr 28 2010 'I'm A Chazzan, But I Don't Put On A Broadway Show': An Interview with Lincoln Square Synagogue's Cantor Sherwood Goffin By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Sherwood Goffin has had a storied career. The cantor of Lincoln Square Synagogue since 1965, Goffin started his musical career as a folk singer. From 1961-1995, Goffin sang on major stages worldwide, recorded six albums, and was known as the "Voice of Soviet Jewry," singing at all the major Soviet Jewry UN Solidarity Day rallies from 1964-1991. Read Article 301 Archived Articles Found in Interviews and Profiles Next 20 Articles >
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