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News Timeline: The Gaza Strip, From Disengagement to Operation Cast Lead
Israel and Hamas are exchanging not only gunfire, but also mutual accusations as to which side is to blame for breaking the fragile cease-fire. The two sides had reached an informal agreement six months ago on stopping military actions, but attempts to renew the period of calm fell short, as each side blamed the other…
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News The Forward’s Groundbreaking Coverage Of Sholom Rubashkin, Who Trump Just Freed From Prison
The Forward has been at the leading edge of reporting on a now national story about kosher meat and the conditions in which it is produced. Much of what has appeared in the pages of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on this topic began with a May 2006 exposé by the Forward’s…
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Fast Forward America Votes: Election Day Coverage From Coast to Coast
Our far-flung Election Day correspondents report from Jewish communities across the country — with dispatches from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. A Big Morning Minyan ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The weekday morning minyan at Agudas Achim Congregation, a Conservative synagogue here, is usually a pretty small affair with 15 or so regular congregants….
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News Secular and Orthodox Jews Meet at Preschool
On a recent Friday morning at a new Jewish preschool in Brooklyn, the women in pants handed their children over to the women in long skirts before heading off to their jobs at as documentary filmmakers and Web designers. The school, Chai Tots, is run by Chabad Lubavitch, the ultra-Orthodox movement that caters to unaffiliated…
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News Jewish Athletes Reach for the Gold
As the world gears up for the 2008 Summer Olympics, the Forward has taken note of a handful of remarkable Jewish men and women who will compete in Beijing. Our roundup reflects the diversity of Jews from around the world participating in the games from August 8 through August 24. David Zalcberg — Australia For…
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News June Walker, 74, Chaired Presidents Conference
June Walker, chairwoman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and former national president of Hadassah, died July 29 after a seven-year battle with cancer. She was 74. Walker, of Rockaway, N.J., led Hadassah, the national women’s Zionist organization, from 2003 to 2007. Last year, she became the second woman ever to…
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News Talansky Lawyer Is Communal Insider With His Own Past Scandal
Jerusalem — Morris Talansky, the Long Island businessman at the center of the allegations of financial impropriety swirling around Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has retained the services of an American lawyer and longtime Jewish communal insider who himself is no stranger to scandal. Neal Sher, a former leader of the Justice Department’s Nazi prosecution unit…
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Fast Forward Probe of Israeli Prime Minister Centers on N.Y. Businessman
Please read our updated version of this story here. A corruption investigation that is threatening to bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is centered on an Orthodox businessman from Long Island. Morris (Moshe) Talansky of Woodsburgh, N.Y., was questioned this week in Israel about allegedly funneling money to Olmert when he served as mayor of…
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