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N.Y. Rabbi Sentenced to 30 Years for Molesting Daughter
A New York rabbi was sentenced to 30 years in prison for molesting his daughter. Rabbi Israel Weingarten was found guilty of sexually abusing his daughter, now 27, between the ages of 6 and 16. Weingarten represented himself during his trial in Brooklyn federal court. Judge John Gleeson told Weingarten during the sentencing Friday that…
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Orthodox Union Proposes New Measures To Increase Revenues and Reduce Costs Tuition
Taking a page from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America is urging yeshiva day schools not to waste a good crisis. With operation costs climbing for schools, and tuition increases bearing down on parents amid the current crushing economic downturn, the O.U.’s Rabbi Saul Zucker laid…
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Galas for Children
BOYS’ TOWN OF ITALY GALA AND MEMORIES OF A NEW YORK ITALIAN-JEWISH SEDER “The Forward! That’s my paper!” Lainie Kazan exclaimed as she and I chatted at the April 3 Boys’ Town of Italy Gala, held at The Pierre. It was a fundraiser for the Rome-based home for disadvantaged, homeless children from around the world…
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An Unfulfilled Vow to Vatican Continues To Vex Ties as Pope Heads for Israel
When Israeli President Shimon Peres proposed on May 3 that Israel let the Vatican take control of several local Christian sites, he was attacked by Cabinet ministers and political foes who accused him of groveling before foreigners and undermining Israel’s sovereignty. One Jerusalem Post reader suggested online that Israel give Peres to the Vatican instead….
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Yid.Dish: Fancy Artichokes
Living close to San Mateo, CA, the artichoke producing capital of the US, I am lucky. For months, the delicious, complicated, decadent vegetables have appeared faithfully at my nearby farmer’s market. I usually steam them and eat the leaves plain, or possibly dipped in butter-garlic sauce. Or, if my fiance mixes up a dipping sauce…
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AIPAC Confronts A New Reality as Obama’s Agenda Becomes Clear
“You’re not going to like my saying this,” Vice President Joe Biden told 6,000 delegates from the podium of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference — a spot that politicians usually vie over vigorously for the privilege of telling the crowd what they want to hear. But Biden, after sending up his…
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Which Side Are We On? Jews Lead Fight For and Against Key Labor Bill
Since retiring from his position as CEO of Home Depot, Bernard Marcus has become one of this country’s most vocal opponents of organized labor, criticizing unions in the media and on Capitol Hill. That is a long way from Marcus’s beginnings in a Newark, N.J., tenement some 80 years ago. Marcus’s parents were immigrants from…
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Budget Cuts Spoil Kosher Meals for Elderly
Home-bound seniors on Manhattan’s West Side are complaining that the quality of kosher meals being delivered to them took a sudden turn for the worse this spring when new city contracting policies took effect — a situation some elderly Jews found so unpalatable that they actually decided to switch to receiving non-kosher meals. “It was…
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What Else Would You Ask a Secretary of State?
Misha Lerner speaks softly but carries a big stick. At 10 years old, the sandy-haired, fair-skinned boy, his broken arm in a cast, seemed cherubic and unthreatening sitting among some 40 students who were listening to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital on May 3….
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Justices Strike Down Postville Tactic
The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously struck down a legal tool that was central to the prosecution of immigrant workers who were arrested at the Agriprocessors slaughterhouse in Iowa last May. After the raid at the kosher plant, nearly 300 illegal workers were charged with aggravated identity theft, which came with a minimum two-year prison…
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Charges Dropped, Questions Linger
The dismissal of all charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists who had been accused of passing along state secrets has sent the Jewish community searching for answers, both internally and externally. Jewish communal leaders have been inquiring about the prosecution’s motivation, and whether pro-Israel activists were targeted for their views. But supporters of former defendants…
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