Articles written collectively by the Forward’s staff.
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By Forward Staff
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News Newsdesk July 18, 2003
Lawmakers Back P.A. Aid Two staunchly pro-Israel Jewish members of the House of Representatives, Democrats Gary Ackerman of New York and Howard Berman of California, joined California Democrat Rep. Lois Capps in urging fellow House members to send President Bush a letter supporting his plan to send aid directly to the Palestinian Authority. In a…
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News The Raw Truth About Lox
What you've been eating is most likely smoked salmon. "Lox" is much saltier.
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News Newsdesk June 27, 2003
Pressure Mounts on Harvard Critics are stepping up their efforts to pressure Harvard Divinity School into returning a $2.5 million donation from the president of the United Arab Emirates. The Jewish chaplain and director of Hillel at Columbia University and Barnard College, Rabbi Charles Sheer, recently sent out an email encouraging people to sign an…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Florida Senator Bob Graham, one of the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, may not be gaining as many contributors as he needs to win the party nod, if one Florida source is correct. “He’s picked up a lot of people, but nothing near what he should have picked up,” said a South Florida Democratic county chairman,…
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News Chief Rabbi Pick Opposed on Corruption, Abuse Charges
TEL AVIV — Israel’s Supreme Court has been asked to block the installation of the nation’s newly elected Ashkenazic chief rabbi, because of allegations that include incompetence, extorting money from marrying couples, forging signatures on marriage contracts and sexual abuse of women and boys. The rabbi, Yona Metzger, currently a neighborhood rabbi in northern Tel…
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News Newsdesk April 18, 2003
Givat Haviva Head Resigns The top professional of an organization supporting Jewish-Arab dialogue programs in Israel abruptly stepped down last week after a report linked him to leaders of the self-described anti-Zionist New Alliance Party. Robert Levy, executive director of the Givat Haviva Educational Foundation Inc., resigned 10 weeks after the Forward reported that Levy…
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News Shas Minister to Secular Jews: Stay Away
Responding to comments made by Health Minister Nissim Dahan, in which the minister from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party said that non-observant Jews should not immigrate to Israel, Prime Minister Sharon said Sunday that the process to convert to Judaism should be shortened. “It should be made possible for anyone who wants to become a Jew…
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