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Upset Over Uproar, Some in Israel Wonder What All the Fuss Is About
Under the current system, Israelis who wish to convert to Judaism must go before a state-run Conversion Authority, which operates under the supervision of the country’s avowedly Orthodox Sephardic chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar. Amar appoints the members of the authority — only male rabbis, of course — and has the final say on all matters…
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Pennsylvania Senate Race Turns Into Battlefield for Dueling Pro-Israel Groups
Two self-described pro-Israel groups are trading barbs and pointed advertisements in a dispute over the record of Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania. The dueling advertisements, sponsored by the left-wing group J Street and a new right-wing group called the Emergency Committee for Israel, present diverging views of Sestak’s positions on…
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A Victim of Madoff and Changing Priorities, the American Jewish Congress Calls It Quits
When the board of the American Jewish Congress decided to suspend its operations, it didn’t give its staff much notice. Employees were notified on July 13, that Thursday, two days later, would be their last day and that they then would receive their final paychecks. Whereas those laid off in previous rounds of cuts received…
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Sting’s Met Performance
Art Spiegelman Takes Comic Character Hapless Hooligan Out of the Strip and Onto the Stage With Pilobolus Dance Theater In keeping with the adage “A picture is worth a thousand words,” one minute of watching the Pilobolus Dance Theater’s staging of the Art Spiegelman-inspired “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving,’” at the Joyce Theatre, trumps any…
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A Yiddish Restaurateur in Paris
‘I do a lot of things,” Claude Berger said as he slipped into his restaurant’s kitchen for a glass of red wine. “I’m a writer, I play the flute and I’m a singer. I used to own another Yiddish restaurant before Le Train de Vie. But it closed.” He poured the wine, then paused. “And…
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The Heart Vs. the Mind
My daughter, Orli, has reached the ripe old age of 18 months. She’s sure on her feet now: She runs, she hops, she climbs, she twirls. She can be the sweetest child that you’ve ever met, especially if she greets you at the door with arms and mouth wide open for an embrace and a…
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YID.DISH: RED CABBAGE COLESLAW
A cabbage harvest in July? In California, it works. (We planted late in a mild winter.) That means just in time for outdoor Shabbes dinners, we have the basic ingredient for coleslaw. But with this gem-like vegetable sitting on my kitchen counter, I couldn’t bear the thought of traditional coleslaw: cabbage shreds drowned in mayonnaise…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Remembering Harvey Pekar and Tuli Kupferberg
This week, Forward contributors Paul Buhle and Steve Dalachinsky speak with Josh Nathan-Kazis, host of the Reporters’ Roundtable, about comic book artist and graphic novelist Harvey Pekar, and about Bohemian artist Tuli Kupferberg of the rock group The Fugs. Buhle and Dalichinsky share their personal recollections of Pekar and Kupferberg, both of whom died on…
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David Twersky, Political Journalist and Peace Activist, Dies at 60
David Twersky, a prominent Zionist activist, political journalist and peace advocate in Israel and America, died July 16 after a long illness. He was 60. In the course of more than 40 years in the public eye, Twersky was a nationally known student leader, a kibbutz member and Israel Labor Party leader, a Knesset aide,…
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The Brooklyn Derriere Dispute
NEWS ITEM: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority removed a vodka ad from buses that travel through Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods after Hasidim complained. The ad showed the backside of a woman clad in a bikini. Hasidim have expressed despair On witnessing the derriere. Bikinis worn on female bums Provoke, in them, deliriums. They fume, they fret,…
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Yid.Dish: Chilled Peanut-Sesame Noodles
This is a wonderful Parve side dish that I’ve been making for the past five years. Ask anyone in my family and they’ll tell you it’s a favorite at home. (My dad especially loves it). This recipe is simple and delicious and can be made up to a day in advance. When I make this…
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