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Indie Pop Meets Midrash With ‘Girls in Trouble’
The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust recently announced the line-up for their annual New York’s Best Emerging Jewish Artists Showcase next month, and Alicia Jo Rabins’s new art pop band, Girls in Trouble, is among the performers. The group, which started playing shows in October and made it to…
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Offbeat Israel: The National Sperm Count in Crisis
Israeli sperm is declining in quality. Fast. Research at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital found that the sperm-cell concentration among sperm donated in Israel declined by 40% between 2004 and 2008. In the last decade, the concentration of sperm among donors has declined from 106 million cells per cubic centimeter on average to an average of…
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Everyone Needs a ‘Jewish Momma’ — Even ‘Real Housewives’
My current guilty pleasure is “The Real Housewives of New York City. ”Watching their “reunion” on Bravo Tuesday night was like watching a sack full of expensively bejeweled, super-skinny, couture-clad cats in a sack claw at each other. But hilariously. Going by their names, looks and mannerisms — hey, if we can’t stereotype ourselves, who…
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Hanna Rosin Has Some Advice for Forward Readers
Hanna Rosin, a writer for the Atlantic and Double X — the Slate Group’s new online magazine for women — will be answering readers’ questions as the Forward’s next guest Bintel Brief advice columnist. Rosin was nominated this year for a National Magazine Award for her Atlantic piece on transgendered children. She is the author…
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Jewish Man, Yellow Cab, Green Street
After editing the national magazine American Jewish Life and wandering around the Bible Belt for a year Benyamin Cohen (“My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith,” HarperCollins, 2008) decided to save the world from itself. Cohen joined up with the fledgling Mother Nature Network and, using…
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Auburn Honors Buchdahl — Rabbi, Cantor, Mother, Korean American
Angela Warnick Buchdahl is many things: a rabbi and cantor, a Korean-American, the mother of three children age 9 and under, and an agent of social change. This month, she will also be among the honorees of Auburn Theological Seminary at its annual Lives of Commitment Breakfast, to be held May 28 at the Waldorf-Astoria…
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Offbeat Israel: ‘Indiana Jones’ Plot Comes to Life
It sounds like the plot from an “Indiana Jones” movie: A 2,000-year-old Hebrew document was on the move and about to be sold on the black market when the plan was foiled. This drama came to a head in Israel on Tuesday. For several weeks police had been after two Palestinian men from the West…
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Confessions of a Wesleyan Mom
These were difficult days to be the mother of a Jewish female student at Wesleyan. Nothing, of course, to compare to the utter heartbreak suffered by the family of the young woman who was murdered on Wednesday afternoon as she worked in the campus bookstore. Nothing can compare with losing a daughter, a sister, a…
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Telling White Supremacists Apart
White supremacists have a lot in common — the hatred of Jews, not least among those things. But the racist groups that find themselves under the white supremacist umbrella also have their share of ideological differences. Slate’s invaluable Explainer column this week reveals why Odinist racism is incompatible with Christian Identity racism, and teaches us…
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The Soloveichik Who Could Help Challenge Specter
Everybody noticed when Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, the last Jewish Republican in the Senate, switched over to the Democratic Party on April 28. But there was also another, less noted, shift of Jewish power on the same day. As Politico reported, Republican primary candidate Pat Toomey, a potential Specter opponent in the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate…
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How Forward Staffers Tie Their Shoes
It’s a dog-eat-dog world. Jobs are disappearing left and right, and everyone has to scrap for those few that remain. Every advantage counts, no matter how microscopic. This new, gladiatorial job market is forcing us to reevaluate every last skill we’ve ever learned. Growing up, we’re all taught some way of brushing our teeth, tying…
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