By Rukhl Schaechter
Charleston wants everyone to know that Florida isn’t the only place where couples can enjoy their golden years basking in warm weather and Jewish community.
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By JTA
One-time Jewish fraternity brother Steven Silberfein left his roots to become a Hindu honcho and founder of the annual Bhakti Fest, a 1,500 person Hindu yoga retreat.
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By Ezra Glinter
The innovative Six Points Fellowship is closing its flagship New York program amid federation funding cuts. Artists say it’ll be that much harder to do creative work.
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis
A shuttered 90-year-old Jewish nursing home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side has been declared a New York City landmark, a designation that will protect it from being razed.
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By Nathan Guttman
Julius Berman, board chairman of the Holocaust Claims Conference, insisted he knew nothing about a 2001 probe into massive fraud. A fax obtained by the Forward says otherwise.
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis
An American Jewish group’s plans to give Indonesia’s president an award for tolerance has stirred controversy. Activists say freedom has deteriorated sharply on his watch.
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By Michael Kaminer
Jewish LGBT leaders are joining the chorus of condemnation around the West Village murder of a gay man over the weekend by a convicted felon who spouted homophobic slurs before pulling the trigger on his 32-year-old victim.
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By Nathan Guttman
The American Jewish community and Israel are both known for their quick response to humanitarian disasters. But daunting obstacles have kept them sidelined from the Syrian civil war.
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis
The Zionist Organization of America has regained its tax exemption more than a year after its failure to file financial disclosures led the Internal Revenue Service to revoke its nonprofit status.
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By Seth Berkman
Four years after the Magen Tzedek ethical kosher certification scheme was launched, not one product bears its seal. Has Orthodox opposition killed the project?
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