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J Street Flexes Its Muscle and Others React As New Congresswoman Steps Into the Fray
At a town hall meeting in late June in suburban Maryland, Rep. Donna Edwards’s tight rope walk was on full display. Edwards had come to White Oak Middle School to speak with the gathered crowd about her recent trip to Israel and Gaza. She wanted to defend herself against criticism that she has been too…
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No Longer in Exile: Overhaul of Diaspora Museum Reflects a New Zionist Narrative
It has long epitomized the Jewish state’s superiority complex toward Jews who live abroad. Tel Aviv’s Museum of the Jewish Diaspora was theoretically about the Jews living dispersed around the globe, but its narrative had them all ending up in Israel. Now, with a big jolt of funding, the museum has announced that it will…
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A Fresh Face Takes Over Embattled UJC
When Jerry Silverman was being considered for the job of CEO and president of United Jewish Communities, the umbrella organization of the North American Jewish federation system, he sought advice from a key constituency: his family. “We had a family meeting a few weeks ago, in the backyard after going to services on Shabbat,” Silverman…
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Accountant For Harvard Hillel Arrested After Nearly $800,000 Disappears
To add to what already has been a bad year for fraud at Jewish organizations, Harvard University’s Hillel announced that it had lost nearly $800,000, and a former accountant has been accused of diverting funds into his personal account. William O’Brien was indicted July 6 on 17 counts in connection with the five-year, $780,000 fraud….
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International Journalists Union Expels Israel After Fight Over Politics and Money
The expulsion of an Israeli journalists’ union from the International Federation of Journalists is mired in a murky cocktail of politics and money. The Israeli group –— the National Federation of Israel Journalists — was ousted June 7 in a unanimous vote of the international union’s executive committee. The vote immediately raised the specter of…
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A Filmmaker’s Intimate Portrait of ‘Molly Goldberg’
Documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner sat comfortably in a Manhattan editing room, one sandaled foot extended to admire her pedicure. Her bright-red tunic, busy with flowers, matched her red toenails. “I don’t know why more women don’t have their toes done,” she said with a sigh. That was the extent of the girlish banter. Kempner is…
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An International Hunt for the Elusive Bagel
I was sailing along the Nile on a fancy cruise, breakfast-time. I looked in the breadbasket, and there I saw them: bagels! On the Nile!? I knew, just knew, they couldn’t be good. And they weren’t. They were white bread made round. Yet, there was a certain beauty, a symmetry, in me, a Jew, fressing…
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Yid.Dish: Potato Salad, and Everyone Loves a Loophole
As a high school student at my Jewish Day School, I fancied myself a little rebel. Pajama pants beneath long skirts. Adidas in spite of the no-sneakers dress code. Briefly, a safety pin in one ear. (My parents loved that.) I wasn’t the only one –- with the safety pin, OK, yes, but my friends…
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For Madoff’s Victims, Here’s a Guide to the Complex World of Legal Restitution
Now that Bernard L. Madoff’s fate has been sealed by a 150 year-long prison sentence, many victims are shifting their focus to the issue of recouping some part of their finan-cial loss. What follows is a list of the different avenues through which victims of the fraud, including individuals, charities, and universities, may win back…
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In the Courtroom: Torment and Dante’s Hell
Joseph Stalin once said that a single death is a tragedy; 1 million, a statistic. The same is true, it turns out, for financial ruin. Whether the final tally turns out to be $16 billion or $65 billion, the sheer enormity of the fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff is too abstract for anyone other than…
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Mrs. Goldberg: ‘The Oprah of Her Day.’
AVIVA KEMPNER’S “YOO-HOO MRS. GOLDBERG” A FILM TO REMEMBER AND RELISH Award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner told the 92nd Street Y audience at the June 25 screening of her latest documentary, “Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” that when she mentioned Gertrude Berg to Fran Drescher, the response of “The Nanny” was, “Who was Gertrude Berg?” There was a…
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