Julie Wiener
By Julie Wiener
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Hebrew Charter School’s F Grade Doesn’t Reflect Movement, Leaders Say
(JTA) — On a bright autumn morning, Hebrew songs and phrases fill the sun-drenched, freshly painted blue and white classrooms of New York’s Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School. A group of kindergartners, representing such an even mix of black and white children that they resemble a 1980s Benetton ad, clasp each other by the…
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Opinion Road to Jewish Success Runs Through Failure
(JTA) — At most Jewish conferences, speakers and participants are careful to focus on sharing only their successes and accomplishments. After all, you never know when a potential donor might be listening. But on Monday, 120 Jewish communal professionals and lay leaders are gathering to focus on something very different: failure. Sponsored by New York’s…
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News ‘Christmas Tree Rabbis’ Take Place in Faith as Intermarriage Grows
(JTA) — When Eric Woodward started rabbinical school at the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary, he assumed he would be be the only student who grew up celebrating Christmas along with Hanukkah. But midway through his training, when Woodward started a discussion group for students of interfaith families, more than 20 people showed up. Not all…
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Fast Forward William Rapfogel Got Free Day School Tuition for Children
(JTA) — It wasn’t the yeshiva tuition bills that drove William Rapfogel to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. On top of the $400,000-plus salary the agency was paying its disgraced CEO, the charity was also covering day school tuition for his three sons. Yeshiva tuition is frequently cited…
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The Schmooze How About A Nice Jewish Guy For Your Wall?
(JTA) — Don’t confuse them with the “Hottest Rabbis” of 2013, for which the Jewrotica website is currently soliciting nominations. No, these are the “Nice Jewish Guys” of 2014: the stars of a glossy wall calendar produced in partnership with JDate, just in time for Thanksgivukkah. This year’s gentlemen include Roe (shown caressing a braided…
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Fast Forward Bloomberg ‘Flattered’ by $1 Million ‘Jewish Nobel’ Genesis Prize
(JTA) — In August, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told New York magazine, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could get all the Russian billionaires to move here?” Today, the Russian billionaires — or at least some Jewish ones — returned the compliment, naming Bloomberg the first winner of the Genesis Prize. The new $1…
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