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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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Shabbat in The Age of Technology
Every day, thou shalt use iPods and cell phones. But on one day, no iPod shall rise upon thy face and thou shalt surely place no cell phone beside thy ear. With the exponential increase in all sorts of media in the so-called digital era, Shabbat observance today demands far more abstinence than simply ignoring…
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The Israeli Lens
The 22nd annual Israel Film Festival descends on the Big Apple with 30 feature films, documentaries and TV shows. The event opens with Ayelet Menahemi’s “Noodle,” an award-winning drama about a 37-year-old widowed flight attendant who finds herself caring for an abandoned Chinese boy whose mother has been deported from Israel. Some 25 filmmakers will…
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Olmert to OU: I’m Not Dividing Jerusalem (At Least Not Right Now)
It took only three weeks, but finally PM Olmert’s office responded to the Orthodox Union’s letter voicing the group’s concern over talk about dividing Jerusalem. Olmert’s letter promises that the “issue of Jerusalem is currently not under negotiations with the Palestinians” and that in any future settlement, the PM will “strengthen the Jewish character of…
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