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For Needy, Agency Offers Lifeline
KIEV, Ukraine – Kiev is one of the greenest cities in Europe, but Anatoly Kravets and his wife have not been out of their one-bedroom apartment for the past year. The apartment is a third-floor walk-up, and Anatoly had one of his legs amputated last year, leaving him confined to a clunky red wheelchair that…
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Dapper New Jewish Mayor Takes Buenos Aires by Storm
Jorge Telerman, the new mayor of Buenos Aires, is an energetic, dashing man, even when suffering and sniffling through a wicked spring flu. The high-octane 51-year-old, a former journalist and ambassador to Cuba who previously served as minister of culture for the city, is the ultimate urban animal, prowling his city’s streets in good times…
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A Rabbi Takes Judaism to Prime Time
Confession: I have had a running debate for the past dozen years or so with my friend Irwin Kula. Being a journalist, I tend to see almost every crisis, from war and hunger to loneliness, in political terms. People should be given a fair shot at supporting themselves, I figure, and then left alone to…
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Florida Democrat’s Star Rising
Newly re-elected to a second term in the U.S. House of Representatives, a Jewish lawmaker from Florida is vying for a seat on one of the most powerful committees in Congress and is a candidate for a high-profile Democratic campaign post. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a good government liberal who is commonly viewed as a Democratic…
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Torn Between the Land and the State
Here’s a measure of the political mood in America’s Modern Orthodox community: At a convention last week in Jerusalem of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America — the main voice of Modern Orthodoxy — guest of honor Ehud Olmert won less applause than the war in Iraq did. Olmert received a few seconds…
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Soccer Fans’ Brawl Jolts French Jews
A deadly incident rife with racial and political overtones has roiled France for the past week and heightened a sense of siege among the country’s 600,000-strong Jewish community. On November 23, a fan of the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team was shot and killed and another fan was seriously wounded by a plainclothes police officer who…
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Liberal Hopes To Stem Voter Drift
When Canada’s Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, recently accused the opposition Liberal Party of being “anti-Israel,” Liberals and the media looked for a credible rebuttal not from Jewish members of the party but from the politician who is considered by many in the community to be an “honorary Jew.” The counterattack was quickly forthcoming from…
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Council Plans First-ever Visit to Emirates
The top council of American Jewish community leaders is planning a first-ever visit to the United Arab Emirates this February, the Forward has learned. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations will visit Abu Dhabi and Dubai and conduct meetings with government officials. Though details of the visit have not yet been finalized,…
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Israel Demands Say Over Holocaust Funds
In what was billed as a “historic” challenge, five major Israeli bodies, including the government, signed a covenant Sunday to fight together for increased money and power within the international body that negotiates post-Holocaust claims, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The heads of two Israel Holocaust survivor organizations — Israel’s national Holocaust…
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Shoah Survivor Kept Memories Alive
In the early 1990s I met a Holocaust survivor, Norman Salsitz, who possessed the most amazing powers of memory I’ve ever encountered. Learning that my mother had grown up in the same town as he had in pre-Holocaust Poland, he asked me her name. When I told him, he remembered very vividly the “royte Chana,”…
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University To Begin Diversity Training
Michigan State University announced recently plans to offer a series of diversity training sessions for faculty and students, focusing on Islam-related subjects. The announcement came on the heels of an October 3 meeting between members of the university administration and the Muslim Student Union. The Muslim group, in concert with the Michigan chapter of the…
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