Lana Gersten
By Lana Gersten
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Culture Chicago Preschool Offers Hebrew-Language Immersion — for Toddlers
For Etty Dolgin, longtime director of Chicago’s Con-servative-affiliated Moadon Kol Chadash supplementary school, it didn’t make sense that religious schools typically waited until second or third grade to start teaching Hebrew. “Why are we waiting till they’re 7 or 8?” she asked. “After all, they learn so much better when they’re younger, and they have more…
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News Paterson Steps Into Hamptons Eruv Fray
In his first visit to a synagogue since becoming governor of New York, David A. Paterson told congregants that he supported their proposal to construct an eruv around their community in the Hamptons, urging more tolerance from residents who have opposed the plan. At Sabbath services in early August at The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton…
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Israel News The Kippah Campaign
In the presidential battle between Barack Obama and John McCain, declaring your political preference has never been so easy. The McCippah and the Obamica, a new line of yarmulkes by 27-year-old Shmuly Tennenhaus, have arrived. Though it’s still too early to declare a winner, the McCippah took an early lead after one woman ordered a…
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News Bruce Adler, 63, Star of Broadway and Second Avenue
Bruce Adler, a two-time Tony-nominated actor who transitioned from the Yiddish theater to the Broadway stage, died Friday, July 25, in Davie, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale. He was 63. According to Moishe Rosenfeld, Adler’s booking agent, the song-and-dance man had been battling liver cancer for four years. Adler reached the height of his career with…
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News Flacks for Agriprocessors Admit Online Impersonation of Meat Company’s Critics
Read an update to this article here. A prominent New York public relations firm has privately acknowledged making fraudulent postings on the Internet about one of its clients, a kosher meat company. An employee at the firm, 5WPR, made the admission to the operator of the blog FailedMessiah.com, Shmarya Rosenberg, during a phone call, according…
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Fast Forward Flacks for Kosher Slaughterhouse Accused of Impersonating Company’s Critics Online
See an updated version of this story here. A New York public relations firm representing an embattled kosher slaughterhouse is being accused of making fraudulent postings on the Internet on behalf of its client. The postings in question were made on FailedMessiah.com, a blog that has written extensively about Agriprocessors, operator of the country’s largest…
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News Tensions Mount Over Lithuanian Probe
A meeting between Jewish communal officials and Lithuania’s prime minister did not dispel increasing tension over Lithuania’s investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Jewish partisans during World War II. During a visit to New York, Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas made stops at both the American Jewish Committee and the YIVO Institute for Jewish…
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News Despite Controversy, Hasidic Singer’s Popularity Soars
On June 22, Hasidic singing sensation Lipa Schmeltzer stepped out to greet his fans in one of his first large-scale appearances since a firestorm erupted over the cancellation of his concert, “The Big Event.” Making appearances at three stores in the Boro Park neighborhood of Brooklyn just one week after the release of his newest…
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