This week: South Florida Jews watch the Presidential debate and yell at the TV; how some religious colleges are getting federal funds for their courses; Barbra Streisand’s Brooklyn.
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This week, staffers discuss Monica Lewinsky’s memoir, Netanyahu’s bizarre ‘bomb’ moment at the UN and why an ethical kosher food certification hasn’t come to fruition.
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Why Mitt Romney’s dismissed the two-state solution in caught-on-camera video. The Forward’s series on leaving the Hasidic community. Both parties have drifted to right.
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The number of Jews in Congress is set to drop to a low. Benjamin Netanyahu muscles his way into the presidential election. There’s trouble at the ZOA.
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By Jon Kalish
Few outside the world of cantorial music know the name Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. But when Itzhak Perlman listens to the cantor’s tenor, he gets goosebumps.
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The Forward’s Nathan Guttman gives an update from the Democratic Convention. Paul Berger explores the pain of circumcision. And Devra Ferst makes the Jewish case for tongue.
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Nathan Guttman reports from the Republican National Convention. What is ‘dark money’ and who is handing it out. The battle for the heart of Chabad.
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Paul Ryan’s plan to cut entitlements may scare off Jewish voters. Why Mel Brooks’ stereotypical Yiddish accent is dying. The many Jewish stories of Denmark.
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How is Boro Park managing one year after the murder of Leiby Kletzky? Marriage culture at Yeshiva University. Natalie Portman gets hitched.
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Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein talk about their new book which looks back at the Jewish life in the Ottoman port town of Salonica.
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