Articles written collectively by the Forward’s staff.
Forward Staff
By Forward Staff
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Israel News Wedded Wisse
In his increasingly competitive re-election campaign, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman has faced tough criticism from within his own party for supporting the Iraq War. But even as pundits and pollsters debate the incumbent senator’s political ties to the neoconservative movement, the Shmooze has learned that the ties soon will become familial, as well. Lieberman’s daughter…
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Israel News Israel’s Celebrity Wedding
The front-page headlines in the Israeli newspapers called it “the wedding of the year.” The guests, some 500 of the hottest celebrities from the worlds of Israeli sports, fashion and entertainment, thronged to a kibbutz catering hall north of Tel Aviv last Sunday to toast the marriage of Israel’s most celebrated beauty queen and one…
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Israel News Trump Sets His Sights on Israel’s Skyline
Developer/reality television star Donald Trump announced last week that he is planning to build a new tower in Israel. The 70-story edifice, which is to be built on the Ramat Gan site now occupied by the Elite candy company, would be the country’s tallest — a distinction that, since 2003, has belonged to Ramat Gan’s…
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Israel News H-e-c-h-s-h-e-r
Saryn Hooks didn’t end up winning the 79th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee last week in Washington. But before finishing third, the 14-year-old girl from Taylorsville, N.C., managed to stump the judges on the word “hechsher” — the endorsement signifying that something has been certified kosher. The judges disqualified her, saying that the correct spelling…
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News Lawmaker, Aipac Feud After Fight Over Hamas Bill
WASHINGTON — A bill aimed at isolating the Hamas-led Palestinian government has triggered a major fight between the Jewish community’s main pro-Israel lobby and a member of the House Committee on International Relations. Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat, is refusing to meet with representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee until she receives…
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Israel News ‘Sopranos’ Actor Cooks Up a Literary Debut
Journalism is a dangerous business. Just this week, a Forward editor found himself face to face with one of America’s best-known gangsters. Managing editor Wayne Hoffman appeared Monday on “OutQ in the Morning.” The show is broadcast on Sirius satellite radio’s channel 106, which is aimed at gay listeners. He was there talking about his…
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Israel News Poll: Men Like It Hot, Women Like It Nebbishy
Two of Great Britain’s leading Jewish pinup ladies took the lead in an unusual survey of British Jews, probing the weighty question of which celebrity they would most like to date. Women, by contrast, tended to pick nebbishes and lovable losers, suggesting that in England, as in America, men are from Mars and women are…
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Israel News Extreme Makeover: Journalist’s Edition
The Forward sent intern Joshua Yaffa out to get a story. He came back with new pants and new shoes. Yaffa’s saga started when he showed up at the University Club in Midtown Manhattan for a press conference, held by the Israel Democracy Institute, about producing a constitution for the Jewish state. Dressed in jeans…
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