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Conservatives Get New Leader Amid Calls for Overhaul
Conservative Judaism is being roiled by potentially tectonic changes that could lead to both new leadership for the movement and structural changes in how the movement’s organizations work. After a months-long search, the movement’s congregational arm, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, has selected Steven Wernick, 41, a Philadelphia area rabbi, as its new executive…
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Cleaning Toilets, and Other Victim Fantasies
What would be a fair punishment for Bernard Madoff? Life in prison is considered probable for Madoff, who pleaded guilty Thursday to 11 criminal charges. But that’s just for starters. How about toilet-cleaning duty in the slammer, a job as a Wal-Mart greeter or simply oblivion? Those are some suggestions from victims of Madoff’s Ponzi…
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Protesters Rally Outside a Home as Debate Continues Over Best Get Tactics
On the day known as Ta’anit Esther — when observant Jews fast before Purim — more than 150 members of Los Angeles’s close-knit Orthodox community gathered for a protest rally outside the family home of a man they claim has refused to grant his wife a Jewish divorce, known as a get. They chanted and…
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Henry Tylbor, 79, Child Survivor of Ghetto Uprising
Henry Tylbor, one of the youngest survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a survivor of Budzyn and other camps, died February 24 of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 79. According to his wife, Wendy Gittler, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s about 15 years ago. Born in Warsaw, Tylbor was 13 years old in…
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Citing Economy, New York’s Federation Slashes Jobs
The UJA-Federation of New York, the world’s largest local philanthropy, has fired 52 people, 11% of its total staff. Federation CEO John S. Ruskay confirmed the layoffs to the Forward on March 11, the same day employees were notified. He said laid-off workers would receive severance and other forms of support, and would leave their…
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A Fate Worse Than Death
Susan Ganc writes that she has three “grave matters” to ask me about — and when she says “grave,” she means grave, the kind you’re buried in. Let’s start with the first one. Recently, Ms. Ganc writes, she was reading, in Yiddish, Sholom Aleichem’s story “Khave” in his “Tevye the Dairyman,” and came across the…
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Life After Seder
The heat is on. With Passover looming on the horizon, home cooks everywhere have begun their annual quest for the perfect Seder meal. But with so much culinary energy dedicated to the first two nights of the holiday, one important detail tends to get overlooked: what to eat on the other six hametz-free days. The…
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Following Withdrawal From Intelligence Post, Freeman Points Finger at Israel Lobby
The spectrum of arguments against the appointment of Charles “Chas” Freeman to Washington’s top intelligence assessment post ranged from his approach toward China to his ties with Saudi Arabia to his views on human rights. But for Freeman, it was always about Israel. In a statement he released hours after withdrawing his agreement to serve…
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Coalition Seeks Overhaul of Conservative Movement
Some of the most prominent figures in Conservative Judaism are demanding a meeting with the leadership of the movement’s congregational arm to discuss a major overhaul of the way the troubled movement functions. In a letter addressed to Ray Goldstein, international president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, a coalition of more than 50…
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Once-Quiet Campuses See Surge in Anti-Israel Activism
When attendees at a recent symposium on “Human Rights and Gaza,” sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Near Eastern Studies, began chanting such slogans as “Zionism is Nazism,” it was not a typical scene for UCLA. While a handful of California campuses have notoriously grappled with heavy anti-Israel sentiment, at UCLA,…
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A Longer Lash Could Be a Smash
NEWS ITEM: The Food and Drug Administration approved a new prescription drug that will grow longer, lusher lashes. For gals who like their lashes long, A brand new drug has come along. It makes eyelashes flourish, grow Beyond what is their status quo. Some women folk will think it cute To have their lashes more…
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