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In Mayoral Race, N.Y. Jews Back Bloomberg

By Gal Beckerman

New York’s Jews overwhelmingly voted to re-elect Michael Bloomberg to a third term in the citywide elections for mayor on Tuesday.Read More


Jewish Women Lag Behind Men in Promotion and Pay

By Jane Eisner and Devra Ferst

Despite notable gains for women in the past year, a Forward survey of 75 major American Jewish communal organizations found that fewer than one in six are run by women, and those women are paid 61 cents to every dollar earned by male leaders.Read More


U.S. Eases Pressure on Israel, Leans On Palestinians

By Nathan Guttman

Relations between Washington and Jerusalem are warming, as months-long tensions over West Bank settlements and other issues have gradually eased.Read More


HIAS Still Aids Immigrants, but Most Don’t Resemble Sergey Brin

By Gal Beckerman

When Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and now the 26th richest man in the world, left the Soviet Union as a 6-year-old Jewish refugee in 1979, it was the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society that secured American visas for him and for his family and settled everyone into a new home.Read More


Lévi-Strauss: He Changed How We See Culture, but Ignored His Own

By Melvin Konner

For Lévi-Strauss, as for other Jewish anthropologists, there was another dimension to being a cultural outsider: It drew them to a sympathetic view of simpler cultures, which most of their contemporaries viewed with disdain.Read More


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