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Child Sex Abuse Bill Poised for Vote Amid Albany Chaos
Last summer, New York State Assemblywoman Marge Markey had lunch with Delaware State Senator Karen Peterson. On the menu: a strategy session on how Markey could successfully achieve passage of a bill that would make it easier for sexual abuse survivors to sue their molesters and the institutions that employed them. In 2007, Peterson got…
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Pakistani Rock Star Builds Cultural Bridges
Salman Ahmad, M.D., knows that he is an unlikely rock star. Make that an unlikely rock star, klezmer jam-session collaborator, celebrity to the Muslim world and United Nations goodwill ambassador. Not bad for a kid from the suburbs of New York who earned his medical degree to please his parents. “I should not be doing…
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Literary Lesson: Authors, Poets Write the News
It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and sent 31 of Israel’s finest authors and poets to cover the day’s news. The idea behind the paper’s June 10 special edition was…
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Whose Holocaust? Plan to Recognize Gay Victims at Memorial Sparks Row
A plan to memorialize gay male victims of Nazism amid a collection of memorial stones for Holocaust victims in a quiet half-acre patch of Brooklyn has provoked an outcry. New York State Assembly Member Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat whose many Orthodox constituents include numerous Holocaust survivors, has decried the planned addition as a distortion…
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Bibi Bails on UNESCO Flap, Angering Wiesel
Israeli-Arab diplomatic sniping over the choice of a new head for the United Nations cultural arm, UNESCO spilled over into an unlikely arena recently, emerging unexpectedly as a sore point in Israel’s relations with the Jewish Diaspora. The UNESCO conflict now pits Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against some of the world’s best-known Jewish intellectuals…
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Pro-Palestinian Advocates Sense Winds of Change in Washington
Changes in America’s policy toward the Middle East conflict are sending positive vibrations throughout the small and struggling pro-Palestinian advocacy community. Activists for the Palestinian cause, who are now describing President Obama’s outreach speech to the Muslim world as “brilliant” and “brave,” are feeling emboldened by a new sense of openness within the administration. Some…
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Sammy Davis Jr.’s Menorah Fails To Sell
Celebrity sparkle wasn’t enough to sell Sammy Davis Jr.’s menorah at auction. The silver menorah that belonged to one of Judaism’s most famous converts went on the auction block June 8, but failed to garner the $10,000 minimum bid sought by the owner, a Judaica collector. “Oh, Samela,” sighed auctioneer Jonathan Greenstein, who said he…
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A Note on Fathers
There’s an old joke about a boy who comes running home from Hebrew school shouting: “Mommy, Mommy! I just got a part in the school play!” “That’s wonderful, dear,” the mother replies. “What’s the role?” “I’m going to be playing the part of the Jewish father.” “Don’t worry,” the mother says, “next year you’ll get…
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How We Remember
For the longest time, Hasia R. Diner, a professor of American Jewish history at New York University, was troubled by the unexamined but widely held belief that in the aftermath of the Holocaust, American Jews did little, if anything, to memorialize the 6 million Jews murdered in Europe. So she decided to have a look…
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Yid.Dish: Blondies
I’m in the minority as far as Jews go in that I’m blonde. There are increasing number of blonde Jews but we’re still few and far between. I was president of my Jewish sorority in college so my picture was smack in the middle of our composite photo. Not only was I front and center…
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Celebrating‘An American Experience’
“ADELINE MOSES LOEB” — A JOURNEY THROUGH A SEVEN-GENERATION JEWISH FAMILY TREE “This is a real night for American Jewish Southern history,” said Eli Evans at the May 5 book launch of “An American Experience: Adeline Moses Loeb and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors,” held at the Metropolitan Club and hosted by Loeb’s grandson, John…
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