SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)—Steven M. Cohen, a prominent Jewish sociologist, has fired the latest salvo in an increasingly vituperative debate about outreach to the intermarried.

A Portland man, his wife, their two children, his four siblings and his mother and father have discovered they are crypto Jews.

They have taken it to heart. They all are coming home to Judaism and they all are moving to Israel.

WASHINGTON (JTA)—How many federal program cuts does it take to get the Jewish community ready to fight tax cuts?

Long before Steven Greenberg—Orthodox rabbi, author, teacher, lecturer—announced to the world in 1999 that he was gay or even realized that he was, he chose to become Orthodox.

Midot is Hebrew for values, and human values such as kindness, respect and cooperation, among others, are an important part of the curriculum at Maimonides Jewish Day School.

The teaching of mathematics in our elementary schools has gone through many changes over the decades.

Educators are always looking for more effective ways to transmit the fundamental concepts that underlie the manipulation of numbers.

I was not able to attend the first major community-wide event held in the new ballroom/auditorium that has been carved out of the old, dark auditorium at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center.

With a renewed vigor from event organizers, the March 18 Maimonides School auction is hoping to improve on the 200 people and nearly $60,000 raised last year.

The Leadership Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland sat down with Portland-area rabbis at its Jan. 25 meeting. The event, hosted at Congregation Shaarie Torah, was arranged by the federation to thank the rabbis for their service and to explore options for greater cooperation.