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A Liberal Perspective on Brooklyn’s Arabic Academy Brouhaha
Conservative media outlets like the New York Post have led the charge against a controversial Arabic-themed public school planned for Brooklyn, the Khalil Gibran International Academy. But, Richard Kahlenberg argues in a compelling New York Times Op-Ed, there’s reason for liberals to be wary as well: The late Albert Shanker, the president of the American…
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ADL Cries Uncle: Okay, Okay, It Was Genocide
The Anti-Defamation League paid a heavy price of late for refusing to call Turkey’s slaughter of its Armenian population a genocide. First, its No Place for Hate program was booted from the heavily Armenian town of Watertown, Mass. Then the ADL fired its New England director Andrew Tarsy for criticizing his organization’s position. And the…
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Bintel Brief: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Keeping the Faith in Dating
Dear Rabbi Boteach, Our family is… I guess we’re a little bit of everything — from Reform to Orthodox. I grew up without any affiliation and sent my own kids to a Chabad school. The trick is I’m married to a gentile, who lives more Jewishly than anyone else in my family. Our two oldest…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Palestine Drama, Dylan in Shul, Elvis vs. Beatles, Etc.
PALESTINE ON (OFF-)BROADWAY: The New York Jewish Week looks at a slew of new plays focused on the Palestinian predicament. Also in the Jewish Week: Palestinian businessmen are plotting an alternative to Hamas and Fatah, and the Jewish community is divided over a controversial new Arab-oriented public school. THE COMMUNITY THAT READS TOGETHER…: Philly Jews…
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Another Arab Intellectual for Israel
They’re certainly a rare breed, partly because Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians doesn’t always add to their ranks, but also because being a pro-Israel Arab requires tremendous intellectual (and, alas, physical) courage. The European Jewish Press reports: Magdi Allam, deputy chief Editor of Italy’s most influential daily Il Corriere della Sera, has once again shocked…
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Bintel Brief: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Helps a Grandmother Connect With Her Non-Jewish Grandson
Dear Rabbi Boteach, My youngest son married outside the faith and now has a young baby. It was very difficult for me when he got married, but I Knew there was no reversing his decision, and so I have tried to make the best of it. This was not easy, as my Jewish heritage is…
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In Other Jewish Newspapers: Angry Armenians, ‘Kosher Carnivore’s Dilemma,’ America’s Next Top Soldier, Etc.
ARMENIAN ANGER: Armenians in Watertown, Mass., are outraged at the Anti Defamation League, Boston’s Jewish Advocate reports. They’re angry about remarks by ADL chief Abraham Foxman, in which he appeared to oppose a congressional resolution that would recognize the Armenian genocide. TORRID MEETS TORAH: The L.A. Jewish Journal’s Amy Klein investigates “Jewish pulp fiction.” Also…
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Kippot, Tzitzit, Tefillin, Shuckling — Who Do These Reform Teens Think They Are?
Debra Nussbaum Cohen (one of my favorite religion reporters) has a fascinating article in the latest issue of The New York Jewish Week about young Reform Jews turning toward tradition. Reporting from the Reform movement’s Kutz Camp in Warwick, N.Y., she writes: In addition to demanding more traditional prayer, a small but growing number of…
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Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Donna Shalala and Pat Robertson Agree
Pro-Palestinian activists in British trade unions have been busy for the past several months promoting anti-Israel boycotts. This week Israel’s allies responded in force: with not one but two full-page ads in The New York Times. The first ad, published Sunday and organized by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, blasted boycott bids from British…
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Roto: The Last Yiddish Writer of Czernowitz
Helene Belndorfer of Vienna writes: Josef Burg is the last Yiddish writer in the legendary town of Czernowitz (now the Ukrainian Chernivtsi) and one of the few remaining known Yiddish authors in Europe. As the 95-year-old writer can no longer leave his home — or these days even his bed — the telephone is his…
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‘The Jewish Question’ Revisited
“Some commentators believe that ‘the Jewish Question’ that has been buzzing around in the West for some three centuries — the question of how this ancient people, the Jews, should fit into a modern political order — should be reopened,” writes Gadi Taub in a review of four new books in the Chronicle of Higher…
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