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Kosher Industry’s Woes Reach a Poor Village in Guatemala
San José Calderas, Guatemala — While working 15-hour days, six days a week at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa where machines could chop off a finger at any moment, Marco Tulio relied on one thing to keep going: thoughts of his Guatemalan hometown of San José Calderas. He pictured his wife and children moving into…
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Even With Aid, Groups Scramble To Cope With Post-Madoff Mess
Representatives of major Jewish foundations have agreed to offer millions of dollars in loans to not-for-profits hurt by the massive alleged Ponzi scheme of investor Bernard Madoff. But even with the announcement of this emergency intervention, additional organizations report being damaged by the scandal, and new information has emerged about those whose losses had already…
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No Longer in Power, Free To Talk, Neocons Seek To Rewrite History
Washington — The audience was a receptive one at the Brookings Institution during a recent presentation on foreign policy recommendations for the incoming president. Experts explained in detail their view of the Bush administration’s blunders and how the Obama team should reverse almost every policy the outgoing administration has set in place over the past…
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Economic Crisis Preserves Lower East Side
About a year ago, the owners of the Streit’s matzo factory, a pillar of Manhattan’s Lower East Side since 1925, announced that they planned to sell the building and move their operations to New Jersey. The family-owned company was asking $25 million for the factory building, a price that seemed realistic given the neighborhood’s white-hot…
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Conversion Crisis in Israel Boils With New Appointee
Haifa — Florence Rouaux, a 28-year-old Jerusalemite who immigrated to Israel from Belgium in 2003, completed her conversion to Judaism three years ago. She went through the recognized channels, converting under the auspices of Israel’s state Conversion Authority. But in May of this year, crisis struck the Conversion Authority. Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court — which…
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Reclusive Syrian Jews Denounce Hebron Eviction
The recent eviction of Israeli Jewish settlers from a contested building in Hebron has provoked a loud and angry retort from the usually publicity-shy Syrian Jewish community of Brooklyn. In a December 17 gathering that attracted some 300 Syrian Jews, including the community’s leading rabbis, speakers rallied around one of their own: a local women’s…
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Jewish Groups Talk Up Domestic Concerns With Obama Team
Washington — The recent eviction of Israeli Jewish settlers from a contested building in Hebron has provoked a loud. After years of concentrating on foreign policy issues, American Jewish groups are looking to return to their historic focus on domestic policy when lobbying the new administration. A December 18 meeting in Washington between representatives of…
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No Schmaltz, Plenty of Soul
Los Angeles — In celebration of Hanukkah, two groups under the Jewish music label JDub Records, The Sway Machinery and DeLeon, rocked a sparse but enthused crowd at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on December 20. The Sway Machinery, a five-piece band that includes members of such indie rock stalwarts as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs…
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End of Gaza Cease-Fire Leaves Both Sides Better Prepared To Fight
Tel Aviv — December’s close brought with it the end of an unwritten, Egyptian-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, and six months of relative calm on the Israel-Gaza border. Now, as rockets explode once again in the Israeli border town of Sderot, and Israel contemplates its response to the assaults, both sides, ironically, stand militarily…
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Festival of (New) Light — and Sound
Everyone knows that Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights, so what were artist Julianne Swartz and The Jewish Museum thinking when deciding on a sound installation for the holiday? What they were thinking, it turns out, is that they can change what people know. “The Hanukkah Project: The Sound of Light by Julianne Swartz,” which…
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Yid.Dish: Cranberry Bread
2 cups of flour 1/2 to 3/4 cup of sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda 1 teaspoon salt ½ stick of softened butter ½ cup applesauce 1 beaten egg The zest of one orange 3/4 cup of orange juice 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon of freshly grated nutmeg…
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