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William Davidson, 86, Philanthropist and Pistons Owner
William Davidson, a businessman and Jewish philanthropist for whom the Jewish Theological Seminary’s graduate school of education is named, died Friday, March 13. Davidson, 86, was the owner of three professional sports teams, including the Detroit Pistons, a National Basketball Association franchise. According to a statement released by the Pistons, Davidson died at his Bloomfield…
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Communication Breakdown
Imagine, if you will, the following scenario: A modern-day Moses, standing atop Mount Sinai, has just received the Ten Commandments. Looking down, he sees the Israelites, impatient to hear the word of God. He pulls his iPhone out from the creases of his robe and starts tapping on it furiously. The Israelites, Moses knows, all…
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Holiday Reading
If the Jews ever spend another 40 years wandering the desert, running out of reading material shouldn’t be a problem. They can pass the time just looking through old Haggadot. The Haggadah “as we have it today was a text that took hundreds of years to coalesce,” Joshua Menachem Kulp reports in the introduction to…
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Domestic Workers’ Rights: A Matter of Ethics
CORRECTION APPENDED My childhood Sedarim involved a slight disconnect. Perhaps yours did, too. Here we were, a big tableful of upper middle class white folks, reclining on pillows around a beautifully set dining room table, discussing our history as slaves… while Mrs. Dyer, our cleaning lady, bustled about in the kitchen, ladling out the matzoh…
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William Davidson, 86, Philanthropist and Owner of Detroit Pistons, Dies
William Davidson, a businessman and Jewish philanthropist for whom the Jewish Theological Seminary’s graduate school of education is named, died on Friday, March 13. Davidson, 86, was the owner of three professional sports teams, including the Detroit Pistons, a National Basketball Association franchise. According to a statement released by the Detroit Pistons, Davidson died with…
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Blessing of the Sun: A Teachable Moment
Once a generation, every 28 years, Jews recite the Blessing of the Sun, the same prayer that is said upon seeing majestic mountains, seas, rivers and deserts: “Blessed are you, our God, King of the Universe, who effects the work of creation.” This is the moment that Jewish tradition says the sun returns to the…
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Conservative Shuls Hint They’ll Leave United Synagogue Absent Big Reforms
A group of presidents of Conservative synagogues is threatening rebellion, and even possibly secession, if the Conservative movement’s congregational arm does not make prompt and dramatic structural changes, the Forward has learned. In a letter addressed to the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s president and to the organization’s professional head and board, the synagogue presidents…
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Yid.Dish: A Break From CSA Land – Chocolate Mousse
I promise I will have more recipes from my CSA in the next few days (here’s a hint: collard greens) but today I want to take a break from the veggies to share something really outstanding! Last weekend my boyfriend and I had one of his old friends over for a bit of a feast,…
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Scholars Rally Around Embattled Professor
An employment dispute at a Midwestern state university has bubbled into a national cause célèbre in the world of Jewish studies, drawing in some of the field’s leading lights. The University of Cincinnati’s decision to discipline and attempt to fire Mark Raider, a tenured professor of modern Jewish history and, until recently, chairman of the…
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Sexual Abuse Survivors Join Debate Over Extending Claims
Jews who say they were sexually abused as children by their rabbis are seeking to tip the balance in favor of a long-stalled bill that would extend the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse in New York State — legislation that could have far-reaching impact on some Orthodox communities as they struggle with emerging…
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Dramatic Shift In Diplomacy Draws Muted React, So Far
It is an Obama revolution that has gone by virtually unremarked. In the space of one week, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have knocked down no fewer than five long-standing pillars of American foreign policy from the Bush years and earlier, leaving Israel and other countries affected to confront a transformed…
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