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Wedding Blues: Rabbis at Odds With Their Rules
The so-called wedding of the century featured a ketubah, a chupah, a groom wearing a tallis and yarmulke, a crushed glass at the end of the ceremony and both sets of parents being hoisted up in chairs as guests danced the hora. But despite the wedding’s Jewish symbols, top leaders from all the major streams…
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Israel Fights Isolation With New Measures
Israel is taking significant new steps to relieve its international isolation following the fatal raid on a humanitarian flotilla and the accusatory Goldstone Report. On August 2, the Israeli cabinet voted to participate in a United Nations inquiry that will look into the Israeli military’s May 31 attempt to stop a Turkish-led flotilla headed to…
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‘The Roundtable’ Is Offered A Seat
You have to get used to acronyms quickly in the world of Jewish social justice (and it helps if you like the letter “j”.) There’s the venerable JCUA in Chicago, PJA on the West Coast, the surprisingly well-organized JCA in Minnesota and a very active JCRC in Boston. National organizations include JCPA, JOI, JFSJ and…
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Fired Workers Protest, Prepare for NLRB Hearing in Two-Year Union Fight
Workers who were fired by a Brooklyn kosher food producer after demanding overtime pay have been protesting outside the owner’s house and a supermarket this summer, and preparing for a return to the National Labor Relations Board this fall. Flaum Appetizing, Inc., a producer of kosher salads, pickles, and smoked fish, has been embroiled in…
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Obama Administration Presses Palestinians To Enter Direct Talks With Israel
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley strove hard to hit the right note August 2 in describing the Obama administration’s recent effort to push the Palestinians into direct peace talks with Israel. “There are consequences to failing to take advantage of this opportunity,” Crowley said of the Palestinians’ reluctance to enter direct talks, as reporters peppered…
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This Is Not Goodbye
UJA-Federation and JCRC-NY Host a “Come Back and Visit” Adieu to Israeli Diplomats “Mayor, schmayor! He’s coming!” joked New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn about Michael Bloomberg’s expected arrival, July 29, at the Joint Farewell Reception of UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. The event honored these…
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Re’eh: The Downtime Day
This past weekend was packed with activities — Friday night dinner at a friend’s home, my father’s birthday celebration festivities both at synagogue and at his home on Saturday, and a barbeque with friends on Sunday. By the time Monday morning came around, my kids and I were pooped. I decided that rather than telling…
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Jewish Leaders Enter Fray Over Islamic Center Near Ground Zero
The dilapidated former Burlington Coat Factory on Manhattan’s Park Place seems an unlikely locus for a controversy that has swept up prominent national Republicans, political candidates, Jewish leaders, and New York City’s mayor. Through a glass door decorated with a bumper sticker reading “U.S.A.,” one can see a quiet, makeshift Muslim prayer space. Security guards…
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Summers of Love At a Bungalow Colony
‘You! You look great! Let’s take a picture! We all still look the same!” Really? Thirty or 40 years after they last met as spades-addicted teens, and they still look the same? Well, maybe they do — to each other. Maybe all it takes is meeting up again at the same bungalow colony and seeing…
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Yid.Dish: What We Used to Eat
I spent most of the day yesterday on Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Not literally. I was reading Jane Ziegelman’s new book, 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. I wanted to know what they ate in the days before Crisco, Cool Whip, corn…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Sex and Sexuality Edition
This week on the Forward Reporters’ Roundtable, news editor Larry Cohler-Esses speaks with staff writer Gal Beckerman and associate web producer Nadja Spiegelman about Orthodox Judaism’s recent attempts to address the issue of homosexuality. The panel also weighs in on a recent “rape-by-deception” case out of Israel. <strong>Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes</strong>
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