Doni Bloomfield
By Doni Bloomfield
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Opinion Chatting With JDate’s CEO
The Forward interviewed Greg Liberman who has been president and CEO of Spark Networks since 2004. The company started with JDate, but now runs 20 other niche dating sites, including the popular Christian Mingle. Forward: Why do you think JDate has been so successful at doing something that the Jewish community has had such a…
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News Maimonides, Medieval Jewish Thinker, Enjoys a Postmodern Revival
Maimonides is trending these days. The 12th century sage, once confined to musty tomes and talmudic study halls, is being brandished in the opinion pages of The New York Times, cited on the airwaves in “This American Life,” and featured in Dara Horn’s latest novel. By some measures, Maimonides is at the height of his…
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The Schmooze Fracking and the Jews
Gregory Zuckerman, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of “The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History,” has just finished a new book. “The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters,” tells the story of the oilmen who led the charge in…
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Culture How Tevye’s Author Got an Oklahoma Oilfield Named After Him
Sholem Alechem, Oklahoma! The name of an oil field several miles out of Ardmore, Okla., is a puzzle to local residents. Some believe that it must commemorate a Native American site. After all, Oklahoma was once Indian Territory, and it is still flush with Native American reservations and local names, from Shawnee Twin Lakes to…
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News Jews in Prison Stick With Faith To Cope With Flood of Anti-Semitism
Joseph was lying on his bunk, looking at the Hebrew blessings he’d hung on the wall to celebrate his first Hanukah in prison when his new, neo-Nazi cellmate was brought in. The man sported a large swastika tattoo on one arm, with Adolf Hitler’s face drawn in the center. “Skinhead” was tattooed across his chest…
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Opinion Could Stanley Fischer Make the Perfect Fed Chair?
As the clock ticks down to Barack Obama’s final decision on Ben Bernanke’s replacement to head the Fed, it seems more and more certain that Larry Summers, the controversial former Treasury Secretary, will get the nod. But in elite financial circles, it has been Stanley Fischer, a naturalized-American and the former head of the bank…
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Breaking News Slain Cleveland Jewish Nurse’s Family Doubles Murder Reward to $50K
The family of Aliza Sherman, the Cleveland nurse murdered in March, has doubled the reward to identify her murderer to $50,000. “I know that there is somebody out there that knows something about this,” said Aliza’s daughter, Jennifer Sherman at the press conference announcing the new reward. “I just encourage that person or those people…
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Culture Sprinter Marty Glickman Left Anti-Semitism in the Dust
‘I don’t remember walking as a young person,” Marty Glickman once said. “I always ran.” “Glickman,” the sometimes inspiring, always fawning, HBO documentary about the life and times of the Olympian track star and legendary radio broadcaster, starts off fast, as well. The film takes on Glickman’s long life, quickly reaching the most notorious moment…
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