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A Celebration for the Mumbai Attack’s Littlest Survivor
Last November, people around the world shed tears over one of the most tragic images of the Mumbai attacks — a newly orphaned little boy crying at the loss of his parents. “Mommy, Mommy,” Moshe Holtzberg wailed during a tearful ceremony held in a Mumbai synagogue days after a terrorist attack in India’s financial capital…
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White House Appoints Envoy on Antisemitism
The former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs was appointed the U.S. State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. Hannah Rosenthal led the JCPA for five years and most recently was the vice president of community relations at the not-for-profit WPS Health Insurance Company. The post has been vacant since Gregg…
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New Arrivals
The critically acclaimed short story writer Rachel Sherman’s’s first novel, “Living Room”, tells the story of three generations of Jewish women: There’s the teenage Abby living in Long Island suburbia and experimenting with her identity and sexuality; her alternately depressive and flighty mother, Livia, struggling with marriage, motherhood and her lack of a career, and…
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Summarizing 15 Years — and Millennia
A college friend of mine recently found me on Facebook. We hadn’t spoken to each other since graduation, but I was happy to hear from him. Since we had been out of touch for so long, he began by summarizing the last 15 years of his life. In a few bullet-pointed sentences, he concisely explained…
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My Birth-dad on My Birthday
A week before my 49th birthday, Gabby called me. She goes by Gabrielle these days, but when I met her in 1988 she was Gabby and I cannot get beyond that. “Hey,” she said in her native New Yorker/transplanted Floridian/neo-Texan twang. “I’m wondering if you’re wondering if he’s going to call to wish you a…
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Funding for Overseas Jews In Disarray as Agencies Duel
Threatening to shake the fragile structure of the American Jewish federations’ umbrella organization, one of the key partners for overseas funding has turned down a proposed agreement on distribution of funds, putting the system in a state of disarray. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee announced that it has rejected a decades-old understanding that gave…
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G.A.’s Savior Is the Russian Oligarch ‘Who Got Away’
In his lively introduction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the recent General Assembly in Washington, Leonid Nevzlin reminded the audience just how unexpected and unusual a role this was for him. “There was a time not so long ago when I couldn’t even imagine standing here in this place, in this country, only blocks…
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Hasidic Village’s Neighbors Have Slaughterhouse Blues
Evelyn Moses’s family has owned the unincorporated plot of land on which she lives, an hour drive north of New York City, for decades. When she inherited it in 1994, it was surrounded on all sides by trees, with a small dirt road running alongside it. “Nice country living,” she said. Then, about a decade…
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Former Agriprocessors CEO Rubashkin Sent to Prison
Sholom Rubashkin, a former executive at the Agriprocessors kosher meat company, was found guilty of 86 counts of bank fraud committed while managing the company’s finances — a verdict that could land him in prison for life. The guilty verdict from the 12-person jury came November 12, after a four-week trial in federal court in…
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Ethiopian Jews Celebrate a Festival, Gain Israeli Attention for Their Traditions
It looked like a scene straight out of the Bible. The men at the front wore outfits based on those of the Priests of the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem, and sent out over the hills a wail that could be heard several miles away. And indeed, it was an emulation of a biblical scene. A…
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Sea of Faces
ABOARD THE INTREPID: RABIN MEDICAL CENTER GALA REMEMBERS ITS NAMESAKE, YITZHAK RABIN The American Friends of Rabin Medical Center’s November 2 “Broadway on the Hudson” gala aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum celebrated one of Israel’s premier hospitals and honored Teva North America, a division of a global pharmaceutical enterprise with roots in…
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