Rebecca Dube
By Rebecca Dube
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News A Fresh Face Takes Over Embattled UJC
When Jerry Silverman was being considered for the job of CEO and president of United Jewish Communities, the umbrella organization of the North American Jewish federation system, he sought advice from a key constituency: his family. “We had a family meeting a few weeks ago, in the backyard after going to services on Shabbat,” Silverman…
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News A ‘Jewish Missionary’ Takes On Hunger
It’s easy to get Enid Borden on a roll. Just mention hunger. “When you think we live in the richest nation on the earth and people are hungry, and these people are seniors, the people who raised and nurtured us — we’ve got to take care of them,” said Borden, the president and CEO of…
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News Survivors’ Hopes Dashed as NY Assembly Adjourns Without Sex Abuse Vote
Sexual-abuse survivors who traveled to Albany, N.Y., with high hopes this past spring got a tough lesson in political reality. The state Assembly’s regular session ended on June 22 without any action on a bill that would make it easier for sex-abuse victims to sue their molesters and the institutions that employed them. “People are…
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News When Bad People Want To Be Jewish
Can someone be too evil to convert? That’s one question raised by the reported conversion to Judaism of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, who is currently awaiting trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in The Hague. Taylor’s wife, Victoria, told the BBC that the accused war criminal is “now a Jew….
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News Child Sex Abuse Bill Poised for Vote Amid Albany Chaos
Last summer, New York State Assemblywoman Marge Markey had lunch with Delaware State Senator Karen Peterson. On the menu: a strategy session on how Markey could successfully achieve passage of a bill that would make it easier for sexual abuse survivors to sue their molesters and the institutions that employed them. In 2007, Peterson got…
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News Pakistani Rock Star Builds Cultural Bridges
Salman Ahmad, M.D., knows that he is an unlikely rock star. Make that an unlikely rock star, klezmer jam-session collaborator, celebrity to the Muslim world and United Nations goodwill ambassador. Not bad for a kid from the suburbs of New York who earned his medical degree to please his parents. “I should not be doing…
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News Sammy Davis Jr.’s Menorah Fails To Sell
Celebrity sparkle wasn’t enough to sell Sammy Davis Jr.’s menorah at auction. The silver menorah that belonged to one of Judaism’s most famous converts went on the auction block June 8, but failed to garner the $10,000 minimum bid sought by the owner, a Judaica collector. “Oh, Samela,” sighed auctioneer Jonathan Greenstein, who said he…
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Life Sex Abuse Bill May be Headed for Vote Next Week
A newly amended bill to extend the statute of limitations for child sex abuse and to allow a one-year “window” for otherwise time-barred lawsuits may come up for a vote in the New York State Assembly as early as Monday or Tuesday according to one of its sponsors. The controversial measure, opposed by the Catholic…
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