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‘Other’ Jews in a Catholic Nation: A Community of Working Class Converts
Like many 21-year-old travelers, I had no plan. No money. And no real assurance that I was even going to be picked up from the airport on a late rainy evening in Central America’s most notoriously dangerous city. Because I also knew no one. All the same, I hopped on a plane to Guatemala City…
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HIAS Fights To Extend Welfare Benefits for Indigent, Non-Citizen Refugees
A 78-year-old Atlanta woman who has been living in the United States for nearly a decade is mulling a return to her native Kazakhstan — now that her access to a benefits program on which she and thousands of other indigent refugees rely is slated to expire. The woman, who asked to be identified by…
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ADL Continues To Suffer Harsh Criticism for Its Opposition to Mosque Near Ground Zero
More than a week after the Anti-Defamation League publicly opposed the construction of an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center, erstwhile allies of the group continue to lob criticisms at the organization over the statement. On August 6, CNN host and Newsweek magazine columnist Fareed…
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High Holy Days Are School Days in R.I.
For the first time in about 30 years, Providence, R.I., public schools will remain open during the Jewish High Holy Days this fall, a decision that came as an unpleasant surprise to the local Jewish community. In a meeting with Jewish community leaders, school officials cited as their rationale for keeping schools open on Rosh…
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Shoftim: Time Will Tell
This past Sunday, we went on a family outing to Oxnard, a seaside community about an hour away from our home. After a yummy fish-and-chips lunch, we rented an electric boat to take a ride out on the bay. My husband steered the boat and let both kids help. Our six-year-old son Jeremy was absolutely…
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Embracing My Inner Balebuste
As a girl growing up in the 1980s, I was praised by my parents for fairly mundane things: loyalty to siblings and friends, occasional athleticism and a willingness to speak up to adults on behalf of causes I believed in. My father let me answer the phones on “Take Your Daughter to Work Day.” My…
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Israel’s Keenest Yeshiva Students
A year ago they were living by the bank of China’s Yellow River. Now, the seven yarmulke-and-tzitzit-clad young men, sitting in central Jerusalem and chatting about their lives, are Israel’s keenest yeshiva students. It is the end of July, the day after the Fast of Av, when every yeshiva halts for summer break — but…
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In Israel, Many Russians View Conversion Bill With a Shrug
Amid the din of Diaspora and Israeli voices shouting to be heard in July during a heated intercontinental debate over a proposed Knesset bill on Jewish conversion, it was easy to miss the silence of one major stakeholder in the legislation: the non-Jewish immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union, on whose behalf the…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: ADL Controversy, and the Story Behind That Paul Rudd Video
The Anti-Defamation League’s controversial decision to come out against a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero is the first topic of this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable. Then the podcast takes a turn for the silly, looking at the story behind the Forward’s first viral Web video. The video features a not-yet-famous Paul Rudd, emceeing a 1992…
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Three Jews, One Bench
NEWS ITEM: Elena Kagan has been confirmed by the Senate as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, joining two other Jews in that role. For the first time, three Jews will be serving on the court simultaneously. The other justices are Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. To say the least, we are surprised!…
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No Progress Yet in Attempt To Mend Rift Over Conversion Bill
The truce worked out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to quell what has become known as “the conversion bill crisis” may be in jeopardy. The conversion bill, which seeks to codify laws for conversion in Israel, raised the ire of Diaspora Jewry when it passed through a Knesset committee with an added provision that would…
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