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Kidney Donation Scandal Sparks New Debate Over Specter’s Organ Legislation
Attempts to fix the nation’s organ donation system have attracted new interest following the recent arrest of a Brooklyn rabbi accused of illegally buying kidneys from live donors and selling them at a huge profit to desperate patients awaiting transplant surgery. While human organs trafficking of the sort allegedly conducted by Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum…
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‘Detectives’ on the Trail of Family History and Long-Lost Relatives
The 1,000 people who came from all over to the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy are bubbes and mommies, fathers and sons, and professionals and retirees, and besides being Jewish, they all have one thing in common. They are detectives. Some, like Ann Francesconi, of Tavares, Fla., have been on the trail of their extended…
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Dina Wein Reis’s Downfall
In this picture, Dina Wein Reis looks every bit the modern frum woman — modest but modern, and very cute with her hair tucked up into that newsboy cap. But she is far from a woman of valor, the traditional view of the ideal Jewish woman as one who is capable, industrious and righteous. Wein…
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Hello Muddah, Internet Fodder
Think about your favorite camp memory. Maybe it was that time you learned how to weave plastic strings into a lanyard keychain! But I doubt it. More likely, it was that spontaneous skinny dip by moonlight. Or when you raided the cabin of your secret crush. Or, if you were luckier than I, that first…
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Max Said Yes
I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm I’m going to join in a rock ’n’ roll band — Joni Mitchell, “Woodstock” The destination that Joni Mitchell sings about in this Woodstock anthem was owned by a nice Jewish farmer, Max Yasgur, who in August 1969 famously allowed half a million people to camp out on…
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Yid.Dish: Faux “Fried” Coral Tomatoes
The garden I share with my friends, Karen and Kate, has a tomato jungle. The three plants have over run three concentric layers of “cages.” They’re now trying to colonize the carrots. Unrelenting weeks of sun and heat have battered our 10 by 14 foot plot in Karen’s backyard. LA’s water rationing has taken its…
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Yid.Dish: Use-Up-the-Apples Kugel
Philadelphia – May, 1986. I’m walking down my college’s main thoroughfare, having just finished the very final final exam of my senior year. It’s late afternoon, and as I head toward my off-campus apartment, I come upon a street vendor selling shiny, green Granny Smith apples. I hand the man a quarter, and wipe the…
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Rahm’s Dad Digs Bibi, Wants Israelis To Stop Attacking His Son
When Rahm Emanuel was first tapped by President-elect Obama to be his chief of staff, Jews kvelled. Amid uncertainty and anxiety in some quarters over Obama’s views toward Israel, the selection of the son of an Israeli veteran of the pre-state Irgun militia as the White House chief of staff offered some reassurance. Since then,…
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New York Police Revert to Type
NEWS ITEM: New York City is spending nearly $1 million on new typewriters for its Police Department. Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed shock at the purchase. “Why are they using any is the question you should ask, and where do you find them?” the mayor said. “That was the thing that I thought about. I didn’t…
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From ‘Rags’ to Riches
SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME HONORS MUSICMAKERS FOR THE AGES The musical “Rags,” with a book by Joseph Stein, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, closed shortly after I saw it August 23, 1986. In my Forward tribute to this work about the Jewish immigrant experience, I wrote that the audience kept shouting…
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How Kidneys Are Bought And Sold on Black Market
Six months ago, Ronen came to the United States from Israel on a life-or-death mission. He needed a kidney transplant, or he would die. Soon after he arrived and moved into a donated basement apartment in Brooklyn, a man approached him and offered to give him what he wanted most in the world — for…
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