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A Hospital’s Tale of Bones, Bunkers and Bombs
It is easy to walk past the stretch of orange construction fencing outside Barzilai Medical Center in the coastal city of Ashkelon without batting an eyelid. But the site marks the epicenter of a saga of politics, war and religion that could destabilize the Israeli government. Behind this fencing lies an ancient cemetery, unwittingly discovered…
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Puerto Rican vs. Jew: Cotto-Foreman Fight a Throwback to Ethnic Matchups
When Yuri Foreman meets Miguel Cotto at Yankee Stadium this June, boxers representing two of New York’s largest ethnic groups will face off in a fight sure to excite Jewish and Puerto Rican fans. Foreman will be defending a World Boxing Association super welterweight championship belt that he won last year — a victory that…
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Tales of a Teenage Bedwetter
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee By Sarah Silverman HarperCollins, 256pp, $20 Jewish comics are usually thought of as self-deprecating Woody Allen types whose singsong shtick hearkens back to the Borscht Belt. Sarah Silverman is not that kind of Jewish comic. Neither schlemiel nor schlimazel, Silverman instead plays the part of a cocky…
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Tickling the Money Bone
The annual meeting of the American Economic Association might not seem like the best place to go for a laugh. But at the organization’s 2009 gathering, Yoram Bauman, a skinny, bespectacled young economist from Seattle, had his fellow academics practically rolling in the aisles. “Shortly before the election, I did a gig in Wichita,” he…
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Two Leading Contenders for Justice Stevens’s Supreme Court Seat Are Jewish
Jewish representation in the Supreme Court could reach a historic high following the April 9 announcement of Justice John Paul Stevens’s retirement. Two of the three leading candidates to succeed Stevens are Jewish jurists: Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Judge Merrick Garland. Currently, two of the nine Supreme Court members, justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and…
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In France, a Jewish Identity
Jewish Identity in France Center Stage at French Consulate Dialogue The French Consulate’s wall-size 18th-century Gobelins tapestry depicting the Story of Esther was an apt backdrop for the March 24 dialogue “Evolutions of Jewish Communities in France and the United States,” hosted by France’s consul general, Philippe Lalliot. Historic and modern-day antisemitism, and the large…
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The Forward This Week
This week on the Forward podcast, editor Jane Eisner provides a look at what’s in the April 16 issue of the Forward, Allison Gaudet Yarrow sits down with writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret and Jeremiah Lockwood performs the second installment of his Nigun Project, alongside Brian Chase of the “Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs.” Subscribe to the…
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Shemini: The Ferris Wheel of Life
The other day, my son Jeremy discovered an unopened birthday present in his closet. It was a Kinex Ferris wheel building set. We took out all parts, and I was instantly overwhelmed. The game had 25 pages of assembly instructions! Despite my reservations, we started putting it together. The process was inordinately complicated. Although the…
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Worry That New Sanctions Will Not Curb Iran’s Nuclear Goals
As another set of sanctions against Iran makes its way through the United Nations — the fourth in as many years — heads of American Jewish organizations and pro-Israel foreign policy analysts are wondering if these or any other measures will really be able to change the behavior of the regime in Tehran. In conversations…
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Now It Is Told: An Israeli Story Of Secrecy and Censorship
The story on page one of Israel’s largest daily formed a graphic that was a conversation stopper: columns of print that looked like a series of vertical piano keyboards with thick, irregularly spaced black keys, and a large headline that read, “Israel’s Censorship Scandal.” The article sought to tell the story of Anat Kamm, 23,…
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Got Kosher Milk? Shanghai Jews Drink by the Pint
At first glance, the carton is unremarkable: boxy and white, with a crudely sketched pastoral scene printed on the front — a forlorn bovine lounging in a pasture. But on closer examination, two elements leap out: the words “Organic Low Fat Milk” and a drawing of a smiling, jaunty cow wearing a yarmulke — the…
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