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Lawyers Turn to Talmud for Continuing Education
When it comes to making a case before a jury, every bit of supporting information counts — even if it’s 2,000 years old. New York-based attorney Robert Persky has been taking courses for seven years at The Institute of American and Talmudic Law, which offers classes comparing a wide range of issues in American jurisprudence…
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Orthodox Schools Test the Waters With ‘Intimacy Education’ Classes
Sexual education courses are taught regularly to adolescents in public schools, but the subject isn’t part of the typical curriculum offered at Orthodox Jewish day schools. This situation, however, might soon change. A new effort that is under way could leave a permanent mark on the ways in which Orthodox educators handle classroom instruction of…
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Dual-Degree Program Targets Agency Leaders
In an effort to better prepare Jewish communal organizations’ future leaders, a new graduate-school program in New York will combine Jewish studies with management training. The Jewish Professional Leadership Program — a dual-degree program that is run under the partnership of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University — will offer students the opportunity to…
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Enrollment Up at Community Day Schools
By her own admission, Laurie Minsk was initially “very skeptical” about sending her two children to a Jewish day school. A Seattle resident who had grown up attending the city’s excellent public schools, Minsk, 48, worried about academic rigor and about whether an all-day Jewish school would mesh with her family’s Reform lifestyle. But as…
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Youth Group Offers Staffers Free MBAs
‘It’s too good to be true.” That’s how Rachel Lederman describes the opportunity she now faces. Lederman, a 23-year-old program director for the Jewish youth group BBYO, is waiting to hear if she’ll be among the 20 young professionals from the organization who will be awarded a full scholarship to earn a Master of Business…
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Orthodox School To Teach Job Skills
Yeshiva students may soon have the option to continue their Jewish studies with a few job skills thrown in. Chabad-Lubavitch, the Hasidic sect, and International Bramson ORT, a not-for-profit Jewish organization that promotes vocational training, are teaming up to start a school in which ultra-Orthodox students will study Talmud in the morning and learn computer…
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January 18, 2008
100 Years Ago in the forward This week brings sad and tragic news to the Jewish people. Wherever Jewish children sing, wherever a folksong is heard and wherever anyone is interested in Yiddish theater, this news will bring forth a sigh and a tear. Abraham Goldfaden, the beloved writer and father of Yiddish theater, passed…
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Film & TV Woody Allen’s New York, RIP
For the past half-decade, New York City has been consumed by a frenzy of greed. A whirlwind of out-of-context development, anarchic “architecture” and a virus-like proliferation of chain stores that has ravaged the cityscape. Property owners, not satisfied with rents and property values that have already soared into the stratosphere, instead are all too often…
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January 11, 2008
100 Years Ago in the forward A police riot occurred this week as rent strikes threatened to turn from simple protests into an open revolt against the city’s thieving landlords. The bloodthirsty police, who have sided with the landlords, attacked a strip of New York City tenement buildings on 11th Street between avenues C and…
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Yid Vid: Boogying With Bush in Jerusalem
The kids seem pretty focused on their dance routine — if only these two heads of state would stop getting in the way. It always seems like an odd juxtaposition when Shimon Peres meets pop music. Hat tip: Ami Eden (who links to some funny commentary from Keith Olbermann).
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A.M. Klein: Portrait of the Poet as Person
In a 1943 letter to his colleague A.J.M. Smith, Montreal poet A.M. Klein complained of critics’ tendency to identify him primarily as a Jewish poet. “Why did they… have to go flaunting my circumcision?” he asked. “It’s an adolescent trick — this whimsical opening of another man’s fly.” Despite his protestations, Klein is still largely…
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