Melanie Takefman
News
- Congress Seeks To Force White House Hand on Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
- Genesis Prize Spills $1M Cash to Michael Douglas as CEO Quietly Departs
- Sheldon Silver's Fall Signals End of a (Jewish) Era in New York Politics
- J Street U Takes Sharp Aim at Community's 'Hypocrisy' on Israel Occupation
- Did Benjamin Netanyahu and the GOP Just Pull Off a Coup — or Lay an Egg?
Forward Forum
- It’s Time for the Jewish Megachurch
- How King Abdullah Set Stage for Saudi Reforms — and Opening to Israel
- ‘We Should Not Give Up Making Our Countries Better’
Arts & Culture
- An Eccentric Archeologist Who Drew a Line in the Sand
- Of Gilda Radner, Ivan Boesky, Boisterous Brisket and 9 Other Facts About Jewish Michigan
- The Neal Pollack Guide to Awards Season
- Behind the Small Screen at Jon Stewart's Gig
- How Iranian-Jewish Women Started a Writers' Revolution
Fast Forward
- How Igor Stravinsky Changed Our Lives
- How To Leave the Neo-Nazis in Two Easy Lessons — and One Hard One
Breaking News
- Druze Student Beaten 'for Speaking Arabic' in Jerusalem
- Think Tank Prepares Aliyah Plan for 120,000 French Jews
- Hezbollah Says Israel Wants To Set 'New Rules' in Conflict
- Can 'Magic Kippah' Save European Jews from Anti-Semitism?
- World's Largest Ship, Named After Dutch SS Officer, Makes Waves Among Jews
- Benjamin Netanyahu Rejects Mounting Criticism of Speech to Congress
- Palestinians Rally Against Charlie Hebdo
- After 7 Decades, Auschwitz Survivors Still Meet Weekly at Brooklyn Synagogue
Teach Israeli Children Value of Democracy
By Melanie Takefman and Dori Spivak
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What’s better than winning $1,000? Winning $1,000 while smelling bacon. At least, that’s what New Hampshire wants you to think. 
King Abdullah leaves behind an outsized legacy. J.J. Goldberg asks if his Saudi successors will manage to maintain his cautious path of reform and dialog with Jews. 
The New York Times thinks it is perfectly even handed when it comes to covering Israel. Richard A. Block thinks they're missing the real problem. 
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"18:15 Stewart appears. Hiii Jon. Can we hang out soon? I’m Jewish, so we’re bound to be BFFs, right? We wouldn’t have to talk about “Rosewater,” would we?" 
We’ve always known that our Barbra is the greatest; so great that we don’t even need to use her last name. But did you know that she is literally #1 at everything? 
“Short clothing = shortened life.” An ultra-Orthodox ad on Jerusalem buses suggests that Israelis’ immodest fashion causes terror attacks. 
#JeSuisBlaspheme : Blasphemy laws still exist, even here in the United States. But couldn't we just replace them them with some common respect? 
After reading a mother's appalling account of the rabbi who 'turned' her daughter against her, Avi Shafran explains what Orthodox outreach is really about. 
"Skip golf game with guys for all-day “spa adventure” with Michelle and the girls." And 5 other things Obama would rather be doing than meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. 
BREAKING: Sheldon Silver surrenders to FBI. Is this the end of an era in New York politics? 
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