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Iris Ovshinsky, 79, Alternative-energy Executive
Iris Ovshinsky, co-founder of an influential alternative-energy company, drowned August 16 while swimming in a pond near her home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. She was 79. Ovshinsky was serving as vice president and director of the company that she and her husband, Stanford, founded, when her life was cut short. “We are greatly saddened by…
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Making It Official, Creatively
When Abe Newman and his partner, Craig Pollack, discussed the possibility of marriage, they decided that they wanted their ceremony to be infused with Jewish traditions. Last weekend, even though a friend who is not a rabbi officiated their ceremony in Massachusetts, they stood beneath a chupah and smashed not one but two light bulbs….
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Family Ties: A Personal Journey to Understanding
Life, Death & Bialys: A Father/Son Baking Story By Dylan Schaffer Bloomsbury USA, 272 pages, $24.95. At 38, legal-thriller writer Dylan Schaffer had never baked a bialy. Though raised in New York — a mecca for seekers of the doughy Jewish treat — he’d long ago abandoned the state’s humid shores for California, land of…
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She Done Him Wrong
In Deuteronomy 25:11-12 we read: “If men are struggling together, a man and his brother, and one’s wife has approached to rescue her husband from his attacker’s grasp, and has put out her hand and taken hold by his privates, then you shall cut off her hand: Your eye is not to look with compassion.”…
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Kosher Pot Bust
Just the facts from the Reading Eagle (Hat tip: Failed Messiah): “Federal agents arrested about a half-dozen people and seized 700 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1 million at a kosher poultry processing plant in Exeter Township, authorities said Thursday.”
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Santorum: Pressure Iran
Senator Rick Santorum’s statement on Iran’s latests moves: “While I am disappointed in the failure of Iran’s government to comply with the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1696, the failure to suspend nuclear enrichment activities is not unexpected. The United States and other nations of the world gave Iran an opportunity to terminate these…
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Hawks and Doves
Israel’s former military chief of staff, Moshe Yaalon, told The Jerusalem Post that his successor, Dan Halutz, and Defense Minister Amir Peretz should resign. Yaalon has been a consistent and frequent critic of the Gaza pullout and the concept of unilateral disengagements, arguing that they only serve to embolden Islamic fundamentalists. Much of the credit…
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Lieberman-Lamont Roundup
Ned Lamont’s campaign has hired a prominent Democratic blogger, David Sirota. Senator Joe Lieberman says he’s expecting a cold reception from some of his Democratic colleagues when he returns to the Senate next week. Lieberman is calling for a five-person debate. Connecticut Rep. Christopher Shays, a Republican facing a tough reelection fight, says that the…
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Allen’s Mom
Forward contributing editor E.J. Kessler couldn’t get any response from Senator George Allen’s office when we were working on a story about his mother’s Jewish roots. But Allen’s campaign spokesperson, Dick Wadhams, recently told the Washington Jewish Week that mother, Etty Allen, was “raised in a Christian home” — but didn’t know which denomination.
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Maher: Bush Best on Israel
Duing a recent interview with Larry King, erstwhile Bush basher Bill Maher had some backhanded praise for the president: I mean can you imagine if there was a terrorist organization that took over the country on our northern border, which would be Canada, and they started shelling us in our northern cities and Minnesota and…
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Sunrise, Sunset
Alison Solomon writes this week in the Forward about the importance of “Fiddler on the Roof” – but she missed at least one angle: its emergence as a factor in the Lamont-Lieberman race.
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