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Turkish Jews Decry Armenian Genocide Bill
In its bare-knuckled lobbying to defeat a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, Turkey has gained a valuable ally: its own Jews. Last week an advertisement from the “Jewish community of Turkey” was published in the conservative Washington Times and was quickly passed around the capital by Turkey’s lobbyists. The ad warned that the overwhelming…
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Atheistic Denomination Struggles To Fill Void Left by Founder’s Death
When hundreds of practitioners of Humanistic Judaism convene in Michigan this weekend, the absence of their movement’s founder, Rabbi Sherwin Wine, is sure to be deeply felt. For nearly a half-century, Wine was the leader and public face of Humanistic Judaism, a tiny, mostly American movement that celebrates Judaism as a culture, while eschewing a…
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Bay Area Artists Fight Over Framing of Mideast Conflict
Oakland, Calif. – Over the past few months, the City by the Bay has become the city in the fray. Driven by three separate incidents, a communitywide debate has emerged over the Middle East conflict — and, specifically, how it is expressed artistically, in both public and private spaces. Last August, San Francisco State University…
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Battle Forming Over Jewel of Yiddish Stage
For the past decade, the Yiddish theater district of Manhattan’s Second Avenue has been dark, save for one tiny flicker of activity in a four-story building on East 7th Street. Every few months, the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors Club would take over the second-floor banquet hall of the Hebrew Actors Union, located on the…
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Navigating the Wake of Ann Coulter’s ‘Perfect’ Storm
Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter ignited a firestorm last week, and she did it with a single word. In an October 8 appearance on CNBC’s “The Big Idea” with host Donny Deutsch, the ever-provocative Coulter said that what Christians ultimately want is for Jews to be “perfected” into Christians. “That,” she said, “is what Christianity is….
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Groups Fight for Affordable Housing as Number of Jews in Poverty Rises
Washington – With record-high house foreclosures driving up demand for affordable public housing, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and B’nai B’rith International are launching an intense lobbying effort to increase government funding for low-income units. The main focus of the month-long advocacy campaign is to push forward the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act,…
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L.A. Jewish Groups Focus on Silver Screen
Los Angeles – Mark Jonathan Harris steers clear of attending synagogue services and claims membership in not one Jewish organization. But the filmmaker says that he expresses his identity in another very essential way: through his work. In fact, two of Harris’s three Oscars were for Holocaust-related documentaries, and he cites the mantra of “Never…
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Archaeologists Challenge Barnard Professor’s Claims
Amid charges of mud-slinging, a group of archaeologists turned to dirt-digging — literally — in their fight against a controversial fellow academic. On Monday night, Columbia University’s pro-Israel student group played host to the latest installment in a lecture series aimed, at least partially, at rebutting Nadia Abu El-Haj, whose work has been critical of…
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Gelt Complex: Feud Brews Over Frat, Like Father Like Son, NIF Kicks Off Series
Feud Brews Over Frat A hawkish Jewish organization is joining cause with the American Civil Liberties Union in calling for a private California university to allow a Jewish fraternity to organize on campus. The Zionist Organization of America last week sent a letter to the president of Chapman University in Orange, Calif., arguing that the…
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The Tooth Fairy
Josie lost her first tooth. How is this possible? Only moments ago she was teething. (Cue the music: “Sunrise, Sunset.”) She already knew about the tooth fairy. We’re not raising her in a Skinner box. She hears things. Every day, as she wiggled her loose tooth, she asked whether the tooth fairy was coming. Would…
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Suze Orman’s Spiritual Side
Every morning in the shower, financial guru and best-selling author Suze Orman says a prayer — “I ask for forgiveness and relief for all whom I did harm, and forgiveness and relief for all who harmed me” — and she has been doing so for as long as she can remember. But it wasn’t until…
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