Ami Eden
By Ami Eden
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Culture Activist Recalls Vietnam, Communal Battles
A quick surf on Amazon or a stroll through the local bookstore suggests that we are living in the era of the political memoir. Anyone with enough time to wade through at least a sampling of the abundant “I was there” autobiographies from Beltway vets will end up not only with a better understanding of…
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News Slugger Set To Skip Game on Yom Kippur
On Sunday, baseball star Shawn Green made the highlight reels with his game-winning home run in the ninth inning. But this weekend the Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman is likely to generate even more headlines by staying off the field. Green, admired by fans across the country who see him as the nicest Jewish boy…
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News N.J. Sex Scandal Spills Into Orthodox World As Touro Link Is Eyed
The lawyers representing Golan Cipel, the Israeli at the heart of the political tumult in the Garden State, are attempting to debunk claims that their client was a partner or pawn in an elaborate scheme to bring down New Jersey Governor James McGreevey. In an exclusive interview with the Forward, one of Cipel’s two attorneys,…
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News Liberals Worry Coalition Deal Will Boost Orthodox Monopoly
As Israel’s Labor Party negotiates to join Ariel Sharon’s governing coalition, Reform and Conservative leaders are urging the party to stand firm against ultra-Orthodox demands over issues of religious pluralism and civil marriage. The president of the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, sent a letter August 10 to Labor leader Shimon Peres asking…
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Culture Shemer Zemer Added to Tisha B’Av Liturgy
For many Israelis and American Jews, the recently deceased singer-songwriter Naomi Shemer always has been a religious figure of sorts, with an unmatched ability to move even the most secular listener with her spiritually uplifting songs about Israel and Zionism. Now Shemer’s status as a modern-day psalmist is official: Her most famous song, “Jerusalem of…
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News The Rabbi, the Rav and the Rebbe
B etween 1991 and 1994, the American Jewish community lost its rabbi (Louis Finkelstein), its rav (Joseph Soloveitchik) and its rebbe (Menachem Mendel Schneerson). Taken together, these three deaths are best understood as marking the end of the era of the great rabbi in American Jewish life — a time when leaders not only dominated…
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News Ex-Mideast Envoy Zinni Charges Neocons Pushed Iraq War To Benefit Israel
The simmering debate over the role of Jewish neoconservatives in drawing America into war in Iraq erupted with new fury this week. One of America’s most respected ex-generals took to the airwaves to charge on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that the war had been fought for Israel’s benefit, just days after a similar charge was…
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News Death Ends Slain American’s Religious Journey
Being Jewish may have cost Nicholas Berg his life, said the father of the 26-year-old American contractor who was decapitated by Islamic militants in Iraq. The Forward has learned that the slain American had, during the past year, intensified his study and observance of Judaism, and taken to wearing tzitzit, or ritual fringes. His father,…
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