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Ailing Editor Set To Close the Book on Venerable Yiddish Journal
Los Angeles – Last October, a top Yiddish literary journal based in Los Angeles celebrated the publication of its 150th issue. Now it appears that its sesquicentennial issue may have been its last. Heshbon, the crowning jewel of L.A.’s once-vibrant Yiddish literature scene, will more than likely cease publication in the wake of the resignation…
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On Israel’s Only Jewish-Run Pig Farm, It’s The Swine That Bring Home the Bacon
I stood beside the road with a traveling backpack and a yarmulke, my arm extended, hitchhiking to the junction from Ramat Raziel to catch a bus home. I was singing “Lev Tahor,” a verse from Psalm 51 meaning “pure heart” that I’d been singing all Sabbath long. A car stopped, and a bearded man in…
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New Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Draws Praise From All Sides
Washington – Shortly after becoming the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month, Rep. Howard Berman presided over the highly anticipated testimony on Iraq of David Petraeus, head of American forces in Iraq. With major television networks carrying the event live, and much of Washington tuned in to the proceedings, Berman stunned those…
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Wanting To Connect, Israelis Find Religion
Los Angeles – For Sarah Sela-Herman, an Israeli doctor, it took moving to Los Angeles from Haifa for her to finally undergo one of contemporary Jewish life’s most prominent rites of passage: a bat mitzvah. Sela-Herman, a 47-year-old pediatric gastroenterologist who celebrated her bat mitzvah in January, is among a growing group of Israelis who…
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Church-State Lawsuits Divide Organizations
In an uncertain legal climate created by a rightward shift on the Supreme Court, Jewish groups are grappling with how hard to push back against decisions favoring a lower wall between church and state. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed April 17, a coalition of advocates is fighting back against a Detroit program that distributed beautification…
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Cleveland Federation Urged To Stay in City
As Cleveland’s Jewish federation ponders a move to the suburbs, a group of civic activists is urging the organization’s board to keep its headquarters downtown. A loose coalition of players in Cleveland’s Jewish and civic life will meet with the board of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland this week and urge it not to…
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Senate Paves Way for Genetic Anti-Discrimination Bill
Washington – Legislation aimed at preventing discrimination against carriers of illness-causing genes was expected to pass in the Senate April 24, ending a 13-year-long congressional standoff. Jewish groups have played an active role in pushing for the bill, a reflection of the issue’s importance for Jews. Jewish women have been at the center of the…
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New Charges Dim Pollard’s Pardon Bid
The arrest this week of an elderly American Jew on charges of spying for Israel appears to have put a serious dent in recent efforts to win a pardon for another American Jew in jail on similar charges. There has recently been a surge in activity surrounding the case of Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S….
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Israelis Say Charges Will Not Harm Ties to U.S.
Washington – While taken by surprise by the Ben-Ami Kadish spy scandal, Israeli officials remained confident this week that the affair will not have a chilling effect on the strong political and defense ties the two countries share. Israeli officials in Jerusalem and Washington said this week that the dialogue with the United States over…
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Wearable Art: Israeli Designs on Display
A new exhibit at the largest museum in New Jersey, The Newark Museum, presents a side of Israeli art rarely seen outside the country. The show, titled Women’s Tales: Four Leading Israeli Jewelers, contains the work of several of Israel’s pre-eminent contemporary jewelry makers, whose designs explore themes of living as a woman in Israel….
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Adventures in Speechwriting
They don’t bang their shoes at the United Nations or prematurely declare peace for our time, but with those fortunate exceptions, the Israeli diplomats described in Gregory Levey’s debut memoir appear capable of just about anything. There’s the memorable scene — unforgettable, really — in which the country’s foreign minister conducts a high-level strategy meeting…
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