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Rabbi: ‘Divine Intervention’ Played a Role

An e-mail inbox flooded with hate mail and death threats might force some people to consider a career change, but Rabbi David Nesenoff sees it as an opportunity. Nesenoff, of Stony Brook, N.Y., was caught in a media whirlwind after capturing on video longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas telling Jews to “get the hell…

By Alex Weisler and Laurie Stern Jun 16, 2010 | 4 min read
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With Grant to Museum, Greek Immigrant’s Story Continues

Thanks to a new grant, the vibrant spirit of 14-year-old Victoria Confino, a Greek Sephardic Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1916, will continue to be a part of Manhattan’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum. A $500,000 grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will help maintain the Confino Family Living History Program, including…

By Laurie Stern Jun 9, 2010 | 3 min read
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Jim Joseph Foundation Gives $33 Million To Improve Field of Jewish Education

Having awarded nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in just four years to Jewish education, the Jim Joseph Foundation seems determined to remake the field through the power of its cash. In May, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and Yeshiva University became the most recent recipients of the foundation’s…

By Laurie Stern Jun 2, 2010 | 4 min read
Israel News
Pink Hitler Posters Cause Outrage

Clothing store New Form’s new ad campaign, which places Hitler on 18-foot-tall posters in Barbie-pink military garb and has him wearing an armband with a red heart in place of a swastika, has sparked outrage among the residents of an Italian city. The posters, displayed at bus stops and on street corners throughout Sicily’s largest…

By Laurie Stern Jun 2, 2010 | < 1 min read
The Schmooze
Pink Hitler Posters Cause Outrage

I have long thought that Hitler could have used a makeover. Maybe I just prefer my historical dictators to be cleanly shaven. However, jeans company New Form’s new ad campaign, which portrays the Nazi leader in Barbie-pink military garb and an armband with a red heart in place of a swastika, somehow doesn’t quite inspire…

By Laurie Stern May 28, 2010 | < 1 min read

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