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Hasidim Evacuate Catskills Camp Site, Leaving Plans for New Town in Doubt
Hasidic campers and families finally evacuated a Catskills-area lodge that was cited by the New York State Department of Health for numerous safety violations, just hours ahead of a judge’s deadline. The reluctant exodus on the afternoon of August 9 from the Machne Bnos Square girls’ camp, at the site of the former Homowack Lodge…
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Survivor Wins Holocaust Studies Ph.D. With Ground-breaking Study
Like many Holocaust survivors, Eliezer Schwartz kept quiet for decades about his experiences carrying out forced labor for the Nazis. Now, the Hiafa pensioner has not only started discussing them; he has authored ground-breaking academic research on the Nazis’ use of slaves that debunks the stereotyped image of German efficiency. When the University of Haifa…
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When Travel Brings Out Our Heritage
In corners of the world I never expected my Jewishness to surface, my ancient heritage finds me. Or is it the other way around? Whenever I’m in Manhattan’s Diamond District, I get a twinge of nervousness and guilt: I worry about how I’ll react when an Orthodox Jew stops me and asks, with that unmistakable…
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Revealing The Real Hebrew Tutors of Bel Air
In Allan Appel’s recently published novel, “The Hebrew Tutor of Bel Air,” teen nebbish Norman Plummer is drawn into a battle of wills and values when he is hired to tutor the seductive and wealthy Bayla Adler for her bat mitzvah. To better understand the book’s unique subject matter, the Forward turned to an expert:…
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Empire Strikes Back
When the poultry company Empire Kosher was on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, the man who had just taken over as CEO of the company, Greg Rosenbaum, called employees in for three straight days and nights of meetings in the firm’s board room, with food brought in and only brief breaks for…
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U.S. Intel: Iran Won’t Have a Bomb for at Least Four Years
Iran won’t have the capacity to produce highly enriched uranium until 2013 and has yet to decide to produce a bomb, according to U.S. intelligence. The assessment appears in answers produced in April by the director for U.S. national intelligence, Dennis Blair, in response to congressional inquiries; the document was declassified this week through the…
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Money Makes The World Go Round
FRENCH “FREE MARKET” CHAMPION ECONOMIST GUY SORMAN AND U.S. JOURNALIST ROGER COHEN DEBATE AT FRENCH RECEPTION Had there been a soundtrack to the July 1 dialogue between Guy Sorman, author of “Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis” (Encounter Books), and New York Times and International Herald-Tribune…
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New Government Gaza Report Cites International Law To Defend Actions
Israel’s formal response to the onslaught of criticism it has absorbed over its winter military campaign in Gaza finally arrived late last month. And though the report is exhaustive, its reply to the hail of human rights and war crimes charges has essentially boiled down to one crucial point: Intent. The 160-page Israeli analysis dismisses…
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Bunk 19, Forever: Reuniting After 58 Years
It began, as so much does these days, with Google. Gita Segal Rotenberg, 71, and living in Toronto, wondered what had become of her old friends from Camp Ramah in the Poconos, the girls she’d spent summers with in the early 1950s. So she entered a name into the search engine. Several months later, her…
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From ‘Jew Boy’ To ‘Self-Hater’: U.S. Jewish Officials Hear From Israelis
A report stating that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had denounced two top aides to President Obama as “self-hating Jews” brought back less-than-fond memories to veteran Jewish officials from previous administrations — even as Netanyahu belatedly denied the latest alleged instance of this long tradition of targeting Jewish administration officials. For Martin Indyk, former ambassador…
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UJC’s New Leaders Saying Little About Their Plans
Expectations are running high for Jerry Silverman, incoming president and CEO of United Jewish Communities, and for the troubled organization’s incoming board chair, Kathy Manning. Conceived as the umbrella group, national advocate and central address of American Jewry’s sprawling system of local charity funding bodies known as federations, UJC has cost those strapped community-based groups…
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