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Israel News Looking Back
100 YEARS AGO IN THE FORWARD Sources say that framed French colonel Alfred Dreyfus’s complete rehabilitation is expected. Not only will he be reinstated in the French army, but he also will be placed at a higher rank than the one he previously held. It is also rumored that he is to receive the Legion…
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Israel News C O R R E C T I O N
The June 2 article “Democratic Fight Looms Over House Intel Post” incorrectly stated that Rep. Henry Waxman “suggested” it was time for Rep. Jane Harman to step down from her intelligence committee post. It should simply have stated that Waxman declined to endorse her push for another term on the committee, while praising Rep. Alcee…
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News Catskills Comedian Jan Murray Dies at 89
Jan Murray, a Jewish comedian who got his start in the Catskills, died Sunday at 89. Murray, who was born Murray Janofsky in the Bronx to immigrant parents, was one of a generation of Jewish comedians that includes Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Shecky Greene and Buddy Hackett. He was a star of 1950s television, using…
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News NEWSDESK
Rabbis Ban Smoking A committee of the main union of Modern Orthodox rabbis has ruled that Jewish law prohibits the smoking of tobacco products. The Halachah Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America issued a unanimous opinion on the issue, citing both religious and scientific sources. The decision, which calls on all Jews to avoid…
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News Animal-rights Expert Endorses Kosher Plant
“They have to learn to keep their process good,” she added. Grandin’s positive remarks came as a welcome piece of good news for AgriProcessors, which has come under fire on a number of fronts since the slaughtering controversy. In May, the Forward published an article about the working conditions of the largely immigrant work force…
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News Groups Plan For Second Darfur Rally
Organizers of April’s Save Darfur rally in Washington are planning another large-scale event to draw attention to the continuing killings in Sudan. The second protest will be held in New York City on September 17 and, like its predecessor, will be orchestrated by the Save Darfur Coalition, a collection of 150 faith-based advocacy and humanitarian…
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Letters July 7, 2006
Be Proud of Wise Men’s Modernizing Influences Opinion columnist David Klinghoffer argues that Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Baruch Spinoza are “the individuals whose thoughts form the top three most lamentable cultural influences in modern times” (“Three Wise Men’s Unholy Influence,” June 30). We Jews, however, should be proud of Freud for his gift of…
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Opinion Thunder in Gaza
It’s hard not to notice the huge imbalance between Israel’s large-scale actions in Gaza in the past two weeks — bombing bridges, government offices and a university; leaving half the population without power; rounding up elected officials — and the ostensible goal of the operation, rescuing a single hostage. The actions have won Israel growing…
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