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The Immigrant Experience
Dov Aryeh grew up attending Ansche Chesed, a Conservative synagogue in New York City. He still has the little English-language Tanach the synagogue gave him for his bar mitzvah almost 40 years ago. He’s been involved in the Jewish community his entire life. Today he’s in a long-term, committed relationship with a fellow Jew. But…
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Posted In Poland
Contemporary Jewish-themed cultural posters that were commissioned by the Polish government under communism are presented in an exhibition currently on display at the JCC in Manhattan. The exhibit features some 70 works of the Polish School of Posters, created by renowned architects, designers and painters from the 1950s through the 1980s. The post-World War II…
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The Moments That Still Live
When Joseph introduces Pharaoh to his father, Jacob, Pharaoh asks him, in the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation of Genesis 47:8, which is here, as is often the case, much closer to the Hebrew than more recent translations: How many are the days of the years of your life? The more recent JPS translation reduces…
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A Jewish Republican Grows in California…
… Josh Richman has the scoop on Steve Poizner in this week’s Forward.
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Judas Time on The McLaughlin Group
It was Christmas on The McLaughlin Group last weekend, but things sure felt more like Easter season when it came time for each host to name the “Turncoat of the Year.” They could just as well called it “Judas of the Year” with the picks they were coming up with. No surprise in Pat Buchanan…
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And the White House’s New Point Man on Jewish Issues Is…
Nathan Guttman has the scoop.
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Does Kosher Sex Allow for Lust in the Heart?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach weighs in on President Carter and his new book.
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Does Jimmy Carter Read Tikkun?
It turns out that President Carter still has at least one public defender in the Jewish community: Michael Lerner.
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Lerner Reaches Out to President Carter
While leaders from across the Jewish spectrum have rushed to condemn former president Jimmy Carter and his new book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” at least one prominent Jewish figure has headed in the opposite direction. Michael Lerner, founding editor of the liberal bimonthly Tikkun, wrote in an email to the magazine’s contributors early this month…
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Paying Tribute to Gerald Ford
The Republican Jewish Coalition was first out of the gate with this tribute to President Gerald Ford. Next was the ADL and then the O.U..
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With Pow-wow, Olmert Tries To Bolster Abbas and Himself
When Ehud Olmert stepped outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem and kissed Mahmoud Abbas on both cheeks Saturday evening, he was offering the Palestinian leader a political embrace. Regard it as the embrace of two men flailing in stormy waters — but which man was drowning, which was rescuing him and did the rescue…
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