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Million Dollar Mattress
An Israeli woman has workers at landfill sites all over Tel Aviv desperately searching for an old mattress that she threw away, the Associated Press reports. The woman, identified only as Anat, says the mattress is stuffed with nearly $1 million. She had surprised her mother with a new mattress, and tossed out the old…
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Drisha’s Arts Fellows’ Evening
Wednesday evening, Drisha’s Arts Fellows are presenting a wide range of kinds of artwork – visual, musical, dance, dramatic and literary – at an event held at the Lincoln Center-area yeshiva for women Feel free to file this under “blatantly self promotional,” (as an Arts Fellow this past year I’m reading some of my work)…
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Don’t Stop the Presses – Until Next Month
It’s hardly a secret that the once-ubiquitous print newspaper is heading for the recycling bin of history. But sometimes the news hits closer to home than others. Last month, the newspaper trade magazine Presstime issued a strident proclamation DON’T STOP THE PRESSES (see photo) This month, the New York Times reported that Presstime was becoming…
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How To Combat Teenage Girls’ Angst: Educate Teenage Boys
Most Sundays I do laundry, or have brunch, or see a movie. But I spent this past Sunday immersed in various forms of female teenage angst, and what I came away with was that more boys and men should have been there with me. The day began at a conference on Food, Body Image and…
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Judaism – There’s An App For That
In honor of the new iPhone updates just announced today by Apple, we here at the Forward wanted to share our Top 5 Jewish iPhone Apps, and since we’re mindful of the tough times, we chose only those applications under $1.99. iBlessing: “Blessings Often Come in Disguise. This One Comes in Your iPhone.” $0.99 No…
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Paying Cash, Helping a Tax-Cheat?
Dear Bintel Brief, If a cleaning lady, repairman, tradesman or even a doctor quotes a price to do a service, but then immediately offers to reduce the price if you pay cash, and you suspect the lower price is offered because the provider will not report the income and pay taxes, are you participating in…
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Offbeat Israel: Polling Israelis on Obama and Settlements
Every month, Tel Aviv University pollsters gauge Israeli public opinion, and the Bintel Blog closely follows the results. The latest poll, which was conducted last week just before Barack Obama’s speech, found that 55% of the Israeli public felt that the American president leans in favor of the Palestinians. Few Israelis, 5%, said that he…
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From Bench to Bimah, Women Rule
This article, looking at whether women rule differently as judges than men do, ran recently in the New York Times. Renowned female judges – who happen to be Jewish – have themselves struggled with the question. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in ruling over a case involving the strip search of an adolescent girl,…
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Stolen Jerusalem Stone Returned, Accidental Thief Forgiven
Who says that there aren’t honest people around today? In 1997, a 46lb fragment of a marble column disappeared from one of the excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) was conducting south of the Temple Mount. It has now been returned. Several weeks ago, the IAA received an unexpected e-mail from a Christian clergyman in…
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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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Black Female Rabbi Soon to be Ordained
Saturday will mark a new era for the Jewish community as the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati ordains mainstream Judaism’s first African-American female rabbi, Alysa Stanton. According to a report issued by the Institute for Jewish and Community Outreach in San Francisco, twenty percent of the Jewish population in the United States,…
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