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  • Abbas 'aggressive' in talks with Democrats, rejected overtures to working with US on peace plan

    Laura Kelly|Aug 23, 2019

    (JNS)-Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas avoided answering whether or not he believes that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state and seemed "aggressive" in talks with U.S. lawmakers regarding the Trump administration's policies, according to members of Congress who just returned from a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the West Bank. Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.), told JNS that she "didn't walk away from the meeting with Abbas feeling particularly...

  • Key to good sex and relationships? Take risks

    Laura Kelly, JTA|Feb 26, 2016

    LOS ANGELES (JTA)—What makes for good sex? It’s an unusual question for the wife of an Orthodox rabbi to talk about publicly, but Doreen Seidler-Feller has made a career of it. A clinical sex therapist and professor at UCLA, Seidler-Feller has been married to Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, the campus rabbi at the UCLA Hillel, for more than 40 years, and she’s been talking about sex for about that long. In fact, the two often host public talks about sex and Jewish tradition, as they did at the Limmud FSU West Coast conference in Pasadena, Calif...