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Through a Nazi Lens
Lights! Camera! Death! “A Film Unfinished”: The Warsaw Ghetto Through a Nazi Lens When I was invited in June by Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to participate in a conference titled “Public Diplomacy and Polish-Jewish Relations,” to be held in Warsaw in October, I had mixed emotions. Yes! What a wonderful opportunity to revisit the…
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Devarim: Confronting Mortality
Last week, I attended the funeral of a member of my former congregation. The funeral fell on a weekend, and we were out with the kids for the day. In the afternoon, my husband Tal and the kids dropped me off at the cemetery, went to the mall for ice cream, and then picked me…
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Presbyterians Tone Down Report On Israel After Jewish Lobbying
Ask Pete Bloss why he worked against resolutions critical of Israel at the general assembly of the largest Presbyterian group in the United States, and the Gulfport, Miss., resident speaks more about Hurricane Katrina than about Israeli policy. “The richness and diversity of points of view in the Jewish community really became clear to us…
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A Brooklyn Boxer Humbled, Not Down for the Count
When he speaks about the future of his boxing career, Dmitriy Salita gets a look of pure intensity in his otherwise mournful brown eyes. All the greatest boxers have this stare, a perfect distillation of concentration and discipline and total faith in the strength of their own arms. But in Salita, it is also the…
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Anger Over Arrest at Kotel Of Woman Carrying Torah
The recent arrest of a woman carrying a Torah at the Western Wall is testing already tense relations between the ultra-Orthodox and other Jewish groups over issues of religious pluralism in Israel. It has also prompted accusations that Israel’s national police force is attempting to reinterpret a Supreme Court ruling on women’s prayer at Judaism’s…
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IDF Recognizes Help From Israeli Human Rights Group
When Israeli human rights groups accused the Israel Defense Forces of wrongdoing in the Gaza operation of 2008–9, many Israelis angrily defended the army and accused the critics of betraying their country. But the army has just voiced gratitude to one of the groups. In early July, the military advocate general, Avichai Mendelblit, said that…
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A Duo of Artists Who Looked at The World From an Oblique Angle
Harvey Pekar and Tuli Kupferberg died on the same day, July 12, and shared much, including peacenik politics, a strong sense of humor and a passion to carve art out of the fragments of popular culture. But they were almost an American Jewish generation apart, a detail that now seems difficult to grasp entirely, but…
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JTS Undergoes Another Round of Layoffs, With 15 Employees Losing Their Jobs in June
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America underwent broad layoffs in late June, despite the chancellor’s earlier indication that no further layoffs would be forthcoming. Just weeks after announcing a new strategic plan that emphasized reducing costs and creating new revenue streams, JTS, Conservative Judaism’s flagship seminary, has terminated 15 administrative employees in an effort to…
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Rabbi Yehuda Amital, 85, a Thinker Who Blended Passion With Humility
Rabbi Yehuda Amital, one of the great contemporary Jewish leaders and thinkers — and one of my personal heroes — passed away in Jerusalem on July 9 at the age of 85. Amital was born Yehuda Klein in Transylvania in 1924 and survived the Holocaust in a labor camp. He moved to Israel after the…
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Asher Arian, 72, a Political Scientist and Author
Asher Arian, one of Israel’s most prominent political scientists, died on July 6 after a long illness. He was 72. Born in Cleveland in 1938, Arian received a bachelor of arts degree from Western Reserve University in 1961 and a doctorate in political science from Michigan State University in 1965. From 1966 to 1989, Arian…
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The Dating Wingman
Aaron Ellner doesn’t look like your typical yente. When he showed up at a trendy hookah bar in Manhattan’s East Village on a recent June evening, the 24-year-old Woodmere, N.Y., native was wearing fashionably stressed jeans, a blazer and an easy smile. But then Ellner, who calls himself the Dating Wingman, is not your grandma’s…
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