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Yid.Dish: Tahina Ice Cream
The last time I went to Melo Hatene to stock up on tahina, I ran into my friend and fellow kibbutz member, David Leishman. David was there for tahina, too: He occasionally makes tahina ice cream for Melo Hatene’s restaurant in exchange for raw tahina and other yummy things from the shop. Intrigued by the…
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‘She Refused To Be a Victim’
MAX FAERBERBOCK, FILM DIRECTOR OF ‘A WOMAN IN BERLIN,’ AN ISAAC B. SINGER FAN During my July 15 telephone interview with Max Faerberbock, who wrote and directed the riveting new film, “A Woman in Berlin,” starring the amazing Nina Hoss, he mentioned he was a fan of Isaac Bashevis Singer. “I read him when I…
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At Conference, Evangelicals Take On Netanyahu’s Fight
Evangelical Christian supporters of Israel are taking on the Netanyahu government’s fight to ease mounting pressure from the Obama administration on the settlement issue. A three-day conference of Christians United For Israel (CUFI) held in Washington this week mobilized supporters, who according to organizers represent millions of followers throughout the country, to push back against…
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Obama’s New Emphasis On Reciprocity Also Pressures Arabs
Freezing the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank was once seen as a unilateral Israeli obligation. But the Obama administration is now treating this as part of a package that will require concessions from Arab states, as well. An intensified and more public focus on this principle appears to be one of…
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Human Rights Watch and Its Saudi Donors
In a concerted campaign targeting the credibility of Human Rights Watch, Israel and some of its supporters are charging the group sought to raise funds from wealthy Saudis in part by highlighting its criticisms of Israel and the group’s resistance to pro-Israel forces in Washington. This funding appeal to an audience likely to be hostile…
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Historic Union Torn Apart in Messy Divorce
The offices of union boss Bruce Raynor were, until recently, a physical testament to the Jewish labor movement’s enduring power. Raynor, president of the historically Jewish garment unions, worked from an executive suite in Manhattan’s garment district, in a storied building that had been purchased with the dues of countless seamstresses and furriers and milliners…
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Livni’s Leadership Faces Challenge From Inside and Outside Her Party
The stage looks set for a war over the future of Kadima, in which party leader Tzipi Livni could be forced to defend her leadership and the unity of the party. She appears to be open to attack on two fronts. The first is political, with the more hawkish Shaul Mofaz — runner-up in last…
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Muslims and Jews From Europe Size Up U.S. as a Model for Coexistence
Can visits to Ellis Island, Yankee Stadium, Manhattan’s 96th Street Mosque, Yeshiva University, the White House and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — among other American landmarks — give Jewish and Muslim leaders from Europe a model that not only will help them combat antisemitism and Islamophobia, but also instill within them a vision…
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The Jewish Mother, Revisited
Four years ago, author Ayelet Waldman wrote in a New York Times essay, “I love my husband more than my children.” And she was pilloried. In May, she came out with “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace,” a new bestselling book from Doubleday that extolls the virtues…
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Expanded Hate-Crimes Bill Wins Senate Approval, Heads to Conference Committee
Twelve years of activism by Jewish groups is nearing an end as Congress prepares to approve legislation that would expand the definition of hate crimes to include actions based on a victim’s sexual orientation, gender or disability. Jewish groups have been front and center in lobbying for the inclusion of these categories in the existing…
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Offering TLC for Jewish Cemeteries
Gary Katz has seen the future, and he desperately wants to prevent it from happening. He predicted that “every cemetery that’s filled with Jews” and “looks nice” now will one day “look like Bayside,” a graveyard in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens that fell into disrepair and has become the focus of a years-long…
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