FORWARD EDITORIAL: Five years ago, Magen Tzedek was launched as an ambitious ethical certification program for kosher food. Why are we still waiting to see any tangible results?
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By Jane Eisner
A raging fire recently destroyed a row of Bronx businesses. Jane Eisner can relate. Three decades ago, her father’s optometry shop went up in flames a stone’s throw away.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: The bold plan to allow egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall has doubters on all sides. Which is why it is so important that we help make it a reality.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: An abortion doctor’s trial is focusing attention on pregnant women’s anguish. Their choices must be protected, from unscrupulous providers and zealots alike.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: The Egypt Independent was shut down for good last week. The paper’s death is a worrying sign that Egypt’s tentative steps toward freedom are faltering badly.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: Should John Galliano ever be allowed in polite company again? Is it time to forgive the legendary Christian Dior couturier?
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: Sex slavery was once a plague on the Jewish Lower East Side. A century later, women are still suffering the same injustice — or worse.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: An egalitarian prayer section at the Kotel might chip away at the virtual Orthodox monopoly on religious practice in Israel. Let that be just its first miracle.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: Y.U. is not alone in grappling with sex abuse charges. It should listen when its own community demands a broader investigation and change for the better.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: For all the fresh faces in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, one thing has stayed depressingly constant: The paltry number of women.
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