The sunny day in March 2009 had begun like all others: Jay Sanderson, head of Jewish Television Network, was driving down Los Angeles’s storied Mulholland Drive in his red Prius. Then he pulled over. Because he had an epiphany. “If you really feel that something is serious, and you have the ability and talent to…
Ask people about Arnold Eisen, chancellor of the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary, and many compare him to Barack Obama. Both started in their current jobs as the economy was crashing, faced daunting challenges not of their making and were brought in to create change. Both have also become lightning rods for criticism. Eisen has…
There are more Jews in the United States than widely thought — 20 percent more. That’s the major finding in a new study conducted by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University, which says that there are now 6.5 million Jews in America, 1 million more than the last time a major count was…
Jeffry Picower, the late investor who earned more than even Bernard Madoff did from the fraudster’s huge Ponzi scheme, has long been accused by the court appointed trustee in the Madoff case of knowing the operation was a fraud. But a new filing by the trustee following his settlement with the Picower estate suggests that…
Time for “our big deal,” the 22-year-old instructor shouted inside the suburban Boston My Gym play space. “It’s space flights!” Asher Misiph, an 18-month-old, grinned with glee as he “flew” in a plastic blue airplane across a zip line and back, with a hand from the peppy instructor. It was almost sunset on a Friday…
You don’t need flashing reindeer lawn ornaments to tell you it’s the happiest time of the year in Arkansas’s capital. Simply tune into FM 89 KUAR in December for the “Jewish Guys’ Chanukah Special,” with co-hosts Phil Kaplan and Leslie Singer. The 60-minute annual shtick-and-music show, which is broadcast annually on the local public radio…
In a meeting yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission, under the leadership of former yeshiva bucher Chairman Julius Genachowski (whose background in Talmud the Forward recently explored), passed a set of rules that allow the government to regulate the Internet. Genachowski crafted his own version of the much-discussed concept of “net neutrality,” the term used to…
If Julian Assange were an observant Jew, would he still have publicized his WikiLeaks? Aside from shaking up the world of foreign policy, the flood of diplomatic cables that Assange released November 28 has caused a corresponding flood of questions about the leaks’ morality and legality. Assange’s defenders claim that he’s making the world a…
Connecticut Independent Senator Joe Lieberman has felt his share of Jewish rage in the past years. Many Jewish Democrats never forgave him for running independently after loosing the Democratic primary in 2006, and Jewish liberals forcefully disagreed with his support for the Iraq war. Things took a turn for the worse when Lieberman was a…
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s shocking remarks about the plight of Soviet Jewry, and the long-awaited rollout of new ethical kashrut standards are the subjects of this week’s podcast. Host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Forward staff writer Gal Beckerman and associate editor Karen Loew. Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes
Federal prosecutors and a court-appointed trustee have recovered nearly half of the estimated $20 billion in funds lost in Bernard Madoff’s multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. The benchmark, announced at a December 17 press conference, was met after the widow of drowned Madoff investor Jeffry Picower signed a $7.2 billion settlement agreement with the U.S. Justice…
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