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A Boarder in the Golden Land
It’s sad but enlightening to see a nice theory shot down. Two of you have done this with my speculation that British “boydem,” in the slang sense of “police,” might have come, via the Cockney speech of Jewish-immigrant London, from Yiddish boydem, meaning “attic.” One letter comes from David Samson, who writes that he was…
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Iranian Jews Reject Outside Calls To Leave
A campaign to convince Iran’s 25,000 Jews to flee the country has stalled, with most opting to stay in their native homeland despite President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial and anti-Israeli speeches. In recent months, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Israeli officials and some American Jewish communal leaders have urged Iranian Jews to leave. But so…
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Reform Rabbis Cancel Carter Center Visit
EDITOR’S NOTE: Shortly after this article was posted, 14 board members of the Carter Center announced their resignation from the institution. The rabbis of America’s largest synagogue movement have canceled a planned visit to the Atlanta-based Carter Center in response to the publication of former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict….
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Series of Scandals Rock an Unsteady Jerusalem
At a corner bakery in Jerusalem, the television perched over the counter switched from covering the latest corruption arrests of top government officials to the funeral of legendary Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek. “The most honest man in the world is dead, and these guys are living it up,” the normally jovial baker commented glumly. Never…
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Thou Shalt Not Work On Sabbath, But How About a JCC Workout?
In American society’s struggle to balance religious values and secular institutions, the defining battle has long been the so-called December Dilemma, when public institutions question how much Christmas celebration to let in. In the Jewish world, a more defining struggle is what might be called the Sabbath Struggle, faced by Jewish Community Centers across the…
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Top Dem Wesley Clark Says ‘N.Y. Money People’ Pushing War With Iran
Washington – Retired general Wesley Clark drew harsh criticism this week after reportedly saying that “New York money people” are pushing America into a war against Iran. By Tuesday, Clark, a past and likely future Democratic candidate for president, was working to assure Jewish groups that he was in no way attempting to advance an…
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Reform Activists Press Minimum Wage
CORRECTION: The print version of this story incorrectly stated that several organizations signed on to the letter supporting a minimum-wage increase. The groups in question do support an increase, but did not sign the letter. Washington – With the 110th Congress taking up the matters of raising the minimum wage and funding for stem-cell research…
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O.U. Leader Being Pushed Out
The country’s largest Orthodox organization has begun searching for a new chief executive, despite the fact that the man currently filling the role has no desire to step down. “Obviously, a decision was made either not to renew my contract, or to reconsider my role at the organization,” said the current executive vice president of…
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Finance Minister Could Face Probe
Tel Aviv – Adding to Israel’s rapidly ballooning list of politicians mired in scandal, the finance minister is now being dragged into the fray. The national police are weighing whether to question Finance Minister Avraham Hirchson about his involvement in the cover-up of an embezzlement of $1.3 million from a labor union associated with the…
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Muravchik, 90, Socialist and Jewish Labor Committee Leader
When Emanuel Muravchik, a son of secular Russian Jewish immigrants, recalled his “bar mitzvah,” he was not thinking of a religious ceremony, which he didn’t have. He recalled the day in 1930, at age 13, that he was given free rein in the library of the Rand School, then associated with the Socialist Party, and…
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Judith Vladeck, 83, Formidable Labor Lawyer
A trailblazer in women’s rights, a formidable labor and anti-discrimination lawyer, and longtime general counsel of the Forward Association, Judith P. Vladeck died Monday at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York after a long struggle with cancer. She was 83. Vladeck was the daughter-in-law of B. Charney Vladeck, who was the Forward’s general manager…
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