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Synagogues Rarely Mention God in Appeals, Unlike Churches
Each year, during Kol Nidre, Sinai Temple in Los Angeles pauses in its prayers for a fundraising appeal. A few members rise to address the congregation, asking for donations while speaking about how the community has supported them through good times and bad. It’s a typical fundraising pitch for an American synagogue: Give because you’re…
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Rape Case Dropped, Rabbi Still Feels Tainted
The nightmare that began for Rabbi Bryan Bramly when he was arrested in his synagogue parking lot last March for the alleged rape of a 7-year-old did not end when the case against him collapsed on September 15. Bramly, who was the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley, a Conservative congregation…
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NIF Grantees and Critics Uncertain About Group?s New Guidelines
Guidelines announced by the New Israel Fund detailing who can qualify for its grants have left the organization?s critics and grantees alike wondering exactly what they will mean. The confusion was compounded by NIF?s claim that the principles reflected in the new guidelines are not, in fact, new at all. That hardly satisfied the right-wing…
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‘Sukkah City’ Brings Panoply of New Designs and Concepts to Old Tradition
The unconventional family outings of architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello with their 11-month-old son took them to blighted California neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco. There they purchased signs from homeless people for $2 to $3 apiece. ” photo-credit=”Image by SHULIE SEIDLER-FELLER” src=”https://images.forwardcdn.com/image/675x/center/images/cropped/sukkahcity2-092210-1425715762.jpg”] With those signs in mind, they decided to…
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Judge in Madoff Bankruptcy Approves $37.6 Million in Fees to Recovery Team
The cost of fraud still hobbles victims of Bernard Madoff?s $65 billion Ponzi scheme: Howard Schupak, 62, for example, doesn?t know if he and his wife can ever retire from managing their New York-based building-supply company. He and others who suffered Madoff losses say that the man in charge of recovering and distributing their money…
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Survey: Day Schools Facing Problem of Abuse
Jewish day schools in the Modern Orthodox world are among those now taking significant steps against child abuse, a new survey by Yeshiva University shows. The survey, the first of its kind, indicates that about 65% of the schools that responded have staff who, in the past five years, have been trained to deal with…
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Some Zionist Groups Stoke Fear Of Islam for Political Profit
After the last several months, it should be clear that the controversy over the Park 51 Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero is about more than sensitivity to the families of the 9/11 victims and the sacredness of the site where their loved ones were murdered. In places as far from Lower Manhattan as Murfreesboro,…
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When Violence Overcame a Freedom Struggle
This is the first of three excerpts from Forward staff writer Gal Beckerman’s new book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle To Save Soviet Jewry,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 23. Before Meir Kahane became the right-wing extremist banned by the Israeli Parliament for racism, he was a…
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A Vine in the Sky
For 12 months of the year, a few steps below the sidewalk, a fig tree grows in nothing more than a polyvinyl container filled with New York City dirt. The canopy of leaves looks about 10 feet high, and every morning, on my way to swim at the 92nd Street Y, I check it out…
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How Exactly Did I Get Here?
The decorative sign above the toilet seat said it all: “In this house lives an old hunter with the finest deer he’s ever bagged.” Gross, I thought. But also a little funny in the way that some things — like kitschy misogynistic messages painted on wood — can make you laugh despite your best effort…
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Bagels and Ballots – Wednesday
-Reading Rahm: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is still playing out the possibility of running to become Chicago’s first Jewish mayor. A recent poll of his own gave Rahmbo a 14-point lead against possible challengers. (NBC) -Oy, Pennsylvania: At a Pennsylvania fundraiser, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, who is running against Republican former congressman…
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