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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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All Through the Night
Here’s how parenting works: Something is the biggest problem in the world. It will never pass, and time stops (exactly as if you’re the Japanese guy in “Heroes”) and then suddenly the problem passes (exactly as if you’re the Japanese guy in “Heroes” when time starts again) and then you totally forget that there was…
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Spiritual Sounds
Last year, on a recent evening in December, the Villa-Lobos Brothers, three virtuoso violinists from Veracruz, Mexico, made their main-stage debut at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Their path to that venerated concert hall, however, was rather unusual. The brothers are members of the Shul Band, a folk rock octet that performs Hebrew liturgical songs…
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The Subversion of Myth
A major finding of modern biblical scholarship is the extent to which the narrative in the book of Exodus is informed by the ancient Israelites’ knowledge of Egyptian culture, religion and literature. The birth story of Moses in Exodus 2:1-10 provides an excellent illustration of both the extent of and the transformation involved in such…
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Nadler Raises the Ante
Rep. Jerrold Nadler has introduced a bill stipulating that no American funds can be used in Iraq except to protect our troops or bring them home. “It has been wrongly asserted that Congress cannot force the President to de-escalate or withdraw from Iraq because it cannot use its only real power — cutting off funds…
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