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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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One of Vilna’s Own Trains a Lens on the City (Correction)
An article in the 12/22 issue of the Forward misstated the name of Mira Van Doren’s new documentary about Vilna. It is called “The World Was Ours.”
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Boydem II:Yiddish and Cockney?
We ended last week’s column with the Yiddish expression plotkes, loksh, boydem, politsa, “crappies, noodles, attic, shelf,” or alternately, loksh, boydem, politsa or boydem mit politsa, in the sense of an unrelated hodgepodge, or, as one says in colloquial English, “everything but the kitchen sink.” Why these particular four items were chosen to express the…
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New Studies Put U.S. Jewry Over 6 Million Mark
Two major new demographic studies estimate the American Jewish population at well above 6 million people, indicating a growing Jewish community that contrasts sharply with popular images of Jewish decline. In particular, scholars say, the new studies appear to refute a widely publicized survey conducted in 2001, which counted 5.2 million American Jews and sparked…
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Rabbis Pledge To Monitor Kosher Plant Conditions
Leaders of Conservative Judaism are planning to create a new ethical certification system for kosher food in response to the findings of a special commission that investigated working conditions at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. The five-person commission, formed by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Rabbinical Assembly, was created following an investigative…
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U.N. Chief Pressured To Bypass Businessman
The incoming United Nations secretary-general has yet to take office, but a controversy is already engulfing his nascent relationship with the American Jewish community. South Korea’s Ban-Ki Moon, who will begin his term January 1 with little experience regarding Israel and its supporters, is coming under fire for his team’s relationship with a little-known Orthodox…
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Amid Chaos, Hamas Talks Pragmatism
Rateb Quzmar, 20, and his cousin Mohammed Quzmar, 20, lie side by side in a small room on the fourth floor of Ramallah Hospital. This wasn’t their plan. Rateb came from Qalqilya last Friday to visit Mohammed, who had been shot three days earlier by a member of Fatah-allied Palestinian security forces — “because they…
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