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Yizkor for Jabotinsky: The Prophet Half-Heeded
The 70th anniversary of the death of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky, father of Revisionist Zionism, passed quietly this year. This was not a result of neglect; Jabotinsky simply does not need a special day to be remembered, not when most of the members of the current Israeli government would classify themselves as “Jabotinskyites.” At New York’s…
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West Bank Security Barrier Draws Artists and Advertisers
What many Israelis see as a security barrier, and many Palestinians see as a prison wall, Majd Abdel Hamid sees as a blank canvas. “It’s really tempting as an artist,” said Abdel Hamid, a 22-year-old Ramallah-based painter. Back in 2007, Abdel Hamid and two assistants spent two 10-hour days painting a 130-foot-long portion of the…
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Anniversary of WTC Attack To Prompt Rallies Amid Holy Days
The lunar calendars of two religions and the electoral cycle are coming into alignment with the controversy that has seized the nation, setting the stage for a political and religious drama on the narrow streets of Lower Manhattan on September 11. The anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks this year comes days before the…
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High Holy Days Are Free at Some Shuls, And Worshipers Flock
When the waiting list for High Holy Day tickets reached 700, leaders of the downtown Sixth and I Historic Synagogue decided to look outside the box — in their case, to the Chinese Community Church across the street. The church was a perfect match for the needs of the ballooning congregation: In its previous life,…
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Losing a Mentor, Gaining an Opponent
Three years ago, Naftali Bennett was celebrating with Benjamin Netanyahu. Bennett had just managed Netanyahu’s successful campaign in the Likud primaries, in which the former prime minister won a decisive victory over far-right challenger Moshe Feiglin, cementing his control over the party and paving the way for his return to the premiership. But today, Netanyahu…
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New Goldstone Follow-Up Probe Will Hold Hamas Accountable for First Time
A year and a half after Israel’s Gaza military operation — the focus of the United Nations’ damning Goldstone Report — a new investigation launched by the Human Rights Council and due in mid-September will finally examine what Hamas has done to account for its own role in the conflict. The Goldstone Report accused both…
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Gunfire Silences a Jamaican Hip-Hop Artist and Convert ‘Kidnapped by God’
Update: An arrest has been made in the shooting death of Yoseph Robinson. On Yoseph Robinson’s website, a Brooklyn street scene fades into an image of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The man in the images leans idly against a Brooklyn lamp; at the Wall he prays, standing erect. In a video that appears between…
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Forverts Cooking Show: Sorrel Soup and Matzah Meal Latkes
In the third installment of the Yiddish Forward’s online cooking show, “Eat in Good Health,” Rukhl “Ray” Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz’s prepare sorrel soup and matzah meal latkes:
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Holy Days: A Guide For the Perplexed
For our forebears, the most cumbersome part of the High Holy Days was working toward a repeat appearance in the Book of Life. They didn’t have to worry about Tweeting in synagogue, entertaining vegan dinner guests, practicing synagogue-dating etiquette or purchasing tickets that equal a down payment on a country house. Since many of us…
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Ki Tavo: A Hole in One
On Sunday, my family and I went mini-golfing at a place called the Magic Castle. My three-year-old daughter Hannah had never gone golfing before. Nonetheless, she insisted on swinging the club herself and had a great time hitting the ball as best she could. On one of the holes, she took about ten strokes and…
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Yid Lit: Jennifer Gilmore
Jennifer Gilmore’s fiction centers on an inevitability — that everything from the food we eat to our friends and politics is affected by the ideas first formed in our childhood homes. The author of the National Jewish Book Award nominated “Golden Country” (Scribner, 2006), Gilmore writes about families with beautiful acuity — celebrating how everyday…
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