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Israeli Arabs Take On Gentrification in Jaffa
Nazareth, Israel – Among the many tools used in the battle between Israel’s Arabs and Jews, you can add a new one: gentrification. The Arab Association for Human Rights alleges that Arab residents in a seaside neighborhood of Jaffa are being driven out so that the area can be developed for wealthy Jews. Three years…
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Schindler’s 100th Birthday Is Private Affair for Survivors
As he does every year on the birthday of Oskar Schindler, Nahum Manor will make a pilgrimage to the famed factory owner’s grave on Mount Zion. Manor, 85, met his wife while working in Schindler’s factory. “My life changed very dramatically when I started working at Schindler’s factory,” he said. “We moved from hell to…
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Ban Ki-Moon’s Rise at U.N. Eases Tensions With Jerusalem
United Nations – Silence can speak volumes, as the secretary general of the United Nations apparently understands. Since his election to the post more than a year ago, Ban Ki-moon has not heard much noise from a notoriously talkative corner when it comes to the United Nations: Israel and its supporters. Unlike most of his…
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Passover Becomes a Rallying Cry for Progressives
Activists are hoping that as Jews sit down at their Seder tables this year, they will turn their thoughts not just to ancient Egypt but to Sudan, Tibet and even the polar ice caps. Jewish groups have sponsored a spate of new Haggadahs, additional readings, and supplemental rituals and symbols in an attempt to put…
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Carter Trip Exposes Debate on Engaging Hamas
In the United States, the uniform response to Jimmy Carter’s decision to meet with a Hamas leader in Syria suggested that this is not an issue up for debate. All the presidential candidates blasted Carter, as did pro-Israel advocates. In Israel, though, the talk of Carter’s meeting with Khaled Meshal has fed into a long-running…
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Streit’s Customers Bid Farewell
The Streit’s Matzo factory, a landmark on Manhattan’s Lower East Side since it opened in 1925, is gearing up to leave for more affordable climes. To commemorate the factory’s place in the neighborhood, casting director Mikie Heilbrun, whose great-grandfather, Aron, founded Streit’s and whose cousins run it today, is making a documentary film incorporating the…
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Reform Camp’s Sale Irks Alumni
When Amy Miller, a California native who spent 16 summers at a Reform summer camp nestled in the Redwoods, heard that Bay Area Jews were angling to transform the defunct camp into a Jewish retreat center, she was elated. Then, last winter, the Reform movement killed her joy when it announced that it had plans…
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Struggling Synagogue Struck by Vandals
A small Jewish community in Central New York suffered a near-fatal blow last week when the region’s only synagogue was vandalized. The Norwich Jewish Center still stands, but much of the building’s interior was destroyed. No one was harmed in the attack, which took place on Sunday, April 6, as the building stood empty. Three…
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It’s a Mall World After All
I have written of my Disney evolution. I used to sneer at the company and its products. I used “Disneyfied” as shorthand for “cleaned-up, dumbed-down, soulless mass-market consumerist cheese.” And then I had kids. Okay, I still think the movies are uneven (and sometimes sexist and racist); we prefer kid sister Pixar’s wit and complexity….
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Penny Project: One Girl Vows Never To Forget
As people around the world mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on May 1, a young girl in Pennsylvania is commemorating the day by making change -— lots of it. Jenna Steinbrink has 300,000 pennies. By the time of her bat mitzvah in September, she hopes to have 6 million. Steinbrink, 12, who has been…
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Eat and Run
Tired of Seders that drag on for hours? Up for a challenge? The Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad are inviting their fans to partake in the 60 Second Seder Contest. In two shows during their current run at The Zipper Factory Theater, the cabaret queens — who perform music, burlesque and comedy — will provide…
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