Dan Levin
By Dan Levin
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Israel News Flak: Richards Not a Jew, Just Jew-ish
‘Seinfeld” co-star Michael Richards made headlines last week as word spread of the racist tirade he had unleashed at two African American audience members during a recent Los Angeles comedy club gig. But just as the story was beginning to fade, new reports surfaced alleging that Richards had spewed antisemitic comments at a different club…
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Israel News Falafel Ball
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, dreamed of building a Jewish state in Palestine. Larry Baras, the owner of a specialty baking company in Boston, dreams of building a baseball league in Israel. Come next summer, Baras’s dream may become just as real as Herzl’s. The Israel Baseball League is slated to be a…
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Culture Giving is a Family Tradition For ‘Venture Philanthropist’
‘I am very interested in getting the biggest bang for my buck,” Alice Rosenwald told the Forward recently. “When I invest, I want to make a difference.” Rosenwald, who appears in this week’s Forward 50, is co-chair of American Securities Holdings, a merchant and investment bank with a history of developing innovative investment businesses by…
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Culture Setting the Beat for a New Generation of Jews
What a difference four years can make. In 2002, Aaron Bisman was a 22-year-old New York University graduate with the unlikeliest of goals: to nurture a Jewish community through music. Four years later, Bisman, along with his partner, Ben Hesse, sits at the helm of one of the most promising ventures in contemporary Jewish culture:…
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News Sigmund Strochlitz, 89, Survivor Activist
Sigmund Strochlitz, a Holocaust survivor and internationally recognized peace advocate, died October 16 at the age of 89 in New London, Conn. Born in Bedzin, Poland, Strochlitz studied economics at the University of Krakow until the outbreak of war in 1939; although he survived Auschwitz, he lost his entire family. Strochlitz moved to America in…
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News Cleveland-based Philanthropist Ruby Bass, 91
Ruby Bass, renowned philanthropist for State of Israel Bonds and the women’s division of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, died September 28 at the age of 91. “She was ageless and elegant,” said Barbara Goldfarb, development director of Cleveland Heights’s Park Synagogue. Bass was a “lifelong” member for the synagogue for more than 50…
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