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Menorah Illuminates Davis Jr.’s Judaism
If you want to buy Sammy Davis Jr.’s menorah when goes up for auction next month, it will cost you a bit more than a song. The bidding will start at $10,000, and Brooklyn-based auctioneer Jonathan Greenstein says the silver menorah could fetch upward of $15,000. But even more than its monetary value, both as…
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Conservative Jews Decry Bias in IDF
When Gabrielle Pollack sought to say kaddish for her recently deceased grandmother, the young female soldier found that in the Israeli Army, it can be daunting to be a Conservative Jew. And the army, for its part, found it can be daunting to accommodate one as non-Orthodox Jewish movements increasingly jockey to break the Orthodox…
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Bibi Backers Push to Rebuild Settlements
It was not only Barack Obama who was bringing demands to bear upon Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Israeli prime minister heard the president press for progress on abandoning the settlements, right-wing activists back home were putting pressure on Netanyahu to do just the opposite. They want him to regress on the issue and turn back…
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Popper Wins Journalism Award
Nathaniel Popper, the Forward’s senior writer, was honored with a Deadline Club award for his coverage of illegal labor practices in the kosher meat industry. He won for reporting in the category “Newspapers Under 100,000 Circulation” at a May 19 awards dinner. The event was organized by the New York Chapter of the Society of…
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New York’s First Flu Victim Was a ‘Wonderful Role Model’
Mitchell Wiener, a Queens public school administrator and beloved member of that New York borough’s Jewish community, died May 17 of complications from swine flu — the first person in New York State and sixth in the United States to die from the flu strain now spreading around the world. Wiener, 55, was assistant principal…
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Wolpe’s Greatest Lessons as a Rabbi and Teacher Were Meant To Be Heard
What we will miss most is his voice. It was muscular and musical, with an accent that sounded vaguely British at first, but later revealed itself to be all-American, with leftover “aahs” from Boston. When Gerald Wolpe died May 18 at the age of 81, American Jews lost one of our greatest sermonizers, one of…
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Cheese and Thank You
Blame my Midwestern roots, or the 10 years I’ve spent as a vegetarian, but no single category of food can make me swoon like cheese. I have been known to devour a block of cheddar, sliver by salty sliver, over the course of an afternoon. And when Shavuot rolls around — celebrating the giving of…
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Netanyahu To Tell Obama: ‘Time Is Running Out’ on Iran
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to stress that “time is running out” for stopping Iran’s nuclear program, so Obama must not spend more than a few months on his planned dialogue with Tehran unless real progress is achieved. If progress is not achieved within a…
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Survey: Holocaust Denial Prevalent Among Israeli Arabs
Some 40 percent of Israeli Arabs believe the Holocaust never happened, according to a new survey. The figure is up from 28 percent in 2006, according to an annual University of Haifa poll of Jewish-Arab relations released Sunday. The poll also found that 41 percent of Israeli Arabs believe the country should exist as a…
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Remembering Bea Arthur
A TRIBUTE TO LYRICISTS BETTY COMDEN AND ADOLPH GREEN AT NY FESTIVAL OF SONG “Carried Away,” New York Festival of Song’s April 14 tribute to lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green, held at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, was a joy for those who relish songs with literate lyrics and edgy wit that tickle the…
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Israeli Army Frowns on Beards
NEWS ITEM: The Israeli military has issued new regulations that impose greater restrictions on the ability of soldiers to grow beards. Religious soldiers are still allowed to have facial hair, but now they must get authorization from their units’ rabbis and commanders — a policy that has come in for some criticism. Recently, an Orthodox…
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