If Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman pulls out a win in November’s general election, the turning point of his campaign may well have been July 31 — the day Dan Gerstein showed up to volunteer in Hartford. In the days before Lieberman lost in the Democratic primary last week, Gerstein, age 39, emerged as one of…
Already facing scrutiny over its treatment of workers, the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse is being accused of distributing a leaflet that warns its employees against the return of “union devils,” and of telling workers not to get “tricked into signing a card for the Union.” The pamphlet, which came with a Spanish translation, was handed…
TEL AVIV — Israelis are debating the outcome of the war against Hezbollah, but they agree on at least one point: Their government neglected civilians during most of the 34-day conflict with Hezbollah. As nearly 4,000 rockets rained down on northern Israel, many residents fled to the south. Those who couldn’t — including the poor,…
One email appeal asked for donations to send care packages with toothpaste and deodorant to Israeli soldiers fighting in Lebanon. Another, from New York’s largest Jewish charity, spoke of urgently needed aid to provide trauma counseling for Israelis deluged by daily rocket attacks. Still another, a direct entreaty from a community group in the northern…
Sitting in his computer nook in Springfield, Ohio, far from the cultural power centers of New York and Los Angeles, Dan Kazez has been at the forefront of the fast-growing Jewish genealogy movement. From there, over the past two years, Kazez has orchestrated the growth of a Web site that provides Jewish genealogists with hundreds…
Uri Grossman, the 20-year-old son of Israeli novelist David Grossman, died on Saturday after a missile hit his tank in southern Lebanon. Imagine, if you can, that Uri Grossman had been a character in his father’s fiction. He may or may not have had a long and happy life. After all, many of the characters…
After nearly 25 years of running the JCC Maccabi Games, an Olympic-style series of athletic competitions that attracts 6,000 Jewish teens from all over the world each year, the powers that be at JCC Association realized that a significant group of young people was being neglected. And so the JCC Maccabi ArtsFest was born. ArtsFest,…
‘Across the Jordan, things will be different,” Moses warns his listeners. “Up to now, everyone has done as he pleased.” In Canaan, though, things will be properly regulated; sacrifices will be made only in “the place where God will choose to establish His name.” In Deuteronomy 12:9, Moses uses two words to describe that promised…
According to the latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Aug. 9-13. The poll found that 52% of Americans now say they sympathize with Israel in its dispute with the Palestinians, a significant increase from July (44%). On the question of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, the…
After federal Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled yesterday that the National Security Administration’s warrantless wireptapping program is unconstitutional and violates a 1978 law that requires warrants for intelligence wiretaps involving people in the U.S., Republican Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota hotfooted this statement on the ruling over to the Forward: “We know from the plot…
Maybe everyone’s being a bit hard on Israeli military chief of staff Dan Halutz about his alleged mid-war stock dump (the real shanda is how this guy’s portfolio was worth only $25,000). Halutz has got plenty of company in scandalville. For those keeping score: Israel’s justice minister, Haim Ramon, is about to be indicted for…
