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N.Y. State Could Funnel $31.1 Million To Yeshivas, While Making Other Cuts
New York Governor David Paterson is seeking to make New York the latest state to channel public funds to yeshiva students through legislation that even staunch defenders of religion-state separation acknowledge as constitutional. A provision inserted in New York State’s austerity budget at Paterson’s insistence would provide $31.1 million over two years to students in…
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For Ayalon, Israel Has Moved Peace Process Forward; Palestinians Have Not
Daniel Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, said his country’s position regarding the peace process has evolved markedly over the past 17 years, and rejected remarks that Israel was interested only in dictating terms to the Palestinians. Ayalon, Israel’s ambassador to Washington from 2002 to 2006, and second in command at the Foreign Ministry since the…
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New Study Finds That It’s Not a Lack of Welcome That’s Keeping the Intermarrieds Away
Since at least the 1990s, one of the chief concerns of the American Jewish community has been the problem of intermarriage. With the perception that an increasing number of American Jews are marrying outside the faith, the problem of how to stop the attrition has been a major preoccupation. But a fairly simple strategy has…
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Heroes Among Us
Remembering Hannah Senesh at Museum of Jewish Heritage Luncheon “I felt I was in the presence of someone special,” Auschwitz survivor Susan Beer said of her encounter in 1944 with Hannah Senesh in a Budapest prison when Beer spoke at the 18th annual Spring Women’s Luncheon of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living…
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Women Speak Up
Like other women before her who saw a wrong and did something to right it, Catherine Orenstein decided to act. Rather than just lament that women’s opinions and voices are grossly underrepresented on the Op-Ed pages and in other aspects of the media, Orenstein, 40, founded an organization to correct the imbalance. In January 2008,…
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You Say Mandel Bread, I Say Biscotti
Mandel bread makes most Jews — or roughly 0.2% of the world’s population — swoon. Biscotti make everyone who has ever entered a Starbucks swoon, or roughly 53% of the world’s population. These are guesstimates, of course, done on the back of an espresso-stained napkin. But my point (unlike a biscuit dipped too long in…
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Yid Lit: Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman is an author and an editor at The New Yorker magazine who is worried about the state of written communication — now that the lightening speed of email has replaced the patience and thoughtfulness required to send someone you care about a hand-written note. The stories in Greenman’s new collection, “What He’s Poised…
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Women’s Roundtable: JAP-TV; Jewish Eggs; Mah Jongg’s Evolution
In the second installment of our women’s roundtable podcast, the Forward’s web editor Gabrielle Birkner speaks with Forward editor Jane Eisner, Lilith editor Susan Weidman Schneider and Lilith associate editor Sonia Isard about a proposed reality show about self-proclaimed Jewish American Princesses, the evolution of the game of mah jongg, the high demand for Jewish…
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Bibi-Obama Summit Aims To Refocus on Looming Challenges
The July 6 meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not only about putting the rocky relations of the recent past behind; it is also about looking toward how to navigate the potential potholes that lie just ahead for the two leaders. Netanyahu is expected to receive a warm welcome, bringing to…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: A Historic Shift in U.S.-Israel Relations
In advance of the July 6 talks between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with news editor Larry Cohler-Esses and staff writer Nathan Guttman about the state of U.S.-Israel relations. They discuss the Obama administration’s role in Israel’s decision to ease the Gaza blockade, Ambassador Michael Oren’s recent…
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A Son of Hamas and an Israeli Spy, Yousef Finds American Jewish Support
Politically conservative Jewish activists have embraced a former Hamas member who turned on his group, his religion and his family to become an informant of the Israeli security services. But when Mosab Hassan Yousef declared war on Islam at a recent dinner the activists held to recognize him, the activists quickly distanced themselves from his…
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