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Alfred Gottschalk, a German Refugee Who Became a Reform Movement Leader
Each year, the day before he was to ordain them as rabbis, Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk told students at the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion about an experience he had as a young boy in Oberwesel, Germany. The day after Kristallnacht, the November night in 1938 when the Nazis rampaged through synagogues and…
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Elizabeth Rickey, Derailed David Duke
One of the perks of fighting antisemitism for a living is the occasional opportunity to meet a genuine hero. On September 12, one of those heroes — a largely unsung one — died at age 53 alone in a motel room in Santa Fe, N.M., after a long battle with Crohn’s disease that had left…
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Finding the Forward 50
In an annual tradition, the staff of this newspaper compiles a list of the 50 people who have made an imprint in the past year on the ways in which American Jews view the world and relate to each other. Last year, for the first time, we invited you, our readers, to send us your…
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Binoche’s Art World
FRENCH FILM STAR JULIETTE BINOCHE DAZZLES AS ARTIST, POET, AND NOW DANCER Not until after I had met the stunning French film star Juliette Binoche at the September 9 preview of the exhibition of her latest book, “Portraits In-Eyes” at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy did I learn of her maternal grandparents’ imprisonment…
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A Pied Piper of Music and Ideas
Even before Jeremy Danneman had a chance to tuck the reed into his saxophone, people began to gather around him. As he strapped on the instrument and began to play, he recounts, a large crowd of shoppers at the marketplace of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, abandoned their errands and circled around him. In this East Central…
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In Italy, ‘Bad Times, Good People’
Elizabeth Bettina is the author of the book, “It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust,” published last spring by Thomas Nelson. The book tells the largely unknown story of Jews who survived World War II in Italy — both natives and those who fled…
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Goldstone’s Gambit: The Man Behind U.N. Report
Ask Richard Goldstone what possessed him, a Jew and self-described supporter of Israel, to accept the job of chief United Nations investigator of alleged war crimes committed in Gaza last winter, and the legendary South African judge invokes his past. His decision in 1980 to accept the racist South African government’s offer of a judicial…
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United Synagogue Approves Broad Restructuring
United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism has instituted a broad restructuring that will include deep cuts in staff, a consolidation of its services and even a reduction in its board of directors from 180 to 75 members. The board approved the changes in a vote on September 13. “It was a historic meeting for United Synagogue,”…
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My Father, Myself
In this podcast, Forward contributor Michael Kaminer speaks with former “Seinfeld” writer Carol Leifer about her new memoir, “When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win,” her relationship with her late father, working with Larry David, and what a body builder and a challah have in common. Produced by Gabrielle Birkner Edited by Nadja…
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Stanley Kaplan: Education Pioneer
REMEMBERING STANLEY H. KAPLAN, THE MAN WHO HELPED MILLIONS SUCCEED Among the family members and friends paying their respects by sitting shiva at the Kaplan home following the funeral of Stanley H. Kaplan, a pioneer in SAT test preparation who died August 23 at age 90, was New York Senator Charles Schumer. Pointing to a…
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Yid.Dish: What to Do When Your Garden Explodes in Bounty
Q: What do you do when you have so many home grown zucchini your friends won’t answer the door when you try to share your harvest? A: Find a car with an open window. The triumph and the tragedy of the summer growing season is the sheer fecundity of gardens and farms. How to partake…
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