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Conference Set To Examine the History of Modern Orthodoxy
Conventional wisdom has it that the Modern Orthodox movement can be traced back to a single figure — Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, the 19th-century German theologian who argued that a balance was possible between a belief in the divine authority of scripture and citizenship in the modern world. The reality, say the organizers of a…
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Rose Thering, Led Interfaith Efforts
Sister Rose Thering, a lifelong advocate for improving interfaith relations between Catholics and Jews, died May 5 at the age of 85. Thering grew up in the largely Catholic town of Plain, Wis., and joined the religious community of the Sisters of St. Dominic at the age of 16. During her doctoral studies at Saint…
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The Cabinet
Ehud Olmert (Kadima), Prime Minister: The ex-mayor of Jerusalem who filled Ariel Sharon’s post when the former prime minister was crippled by a stroke in January, Olmert lacks Sharon’s military pedigree but is considered a shrewd politician. A scion of the long-dominant Likud party, Olmert was quick to follow Sharon when the former premier left…
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The Cabinet
A look at the four parties and 25 political players with a seat at the new Israeli power table. Ronnie Bar-On (Kadima), Minister of the Interior; Ze’ev Boim (Kadima), Minister of Immigrant Absorption; Ya’acov Edri (Kadima), Minister without portfolio (responsible for liaison with the Knesset); Gideon Ezra (Kadima), Minister of the Environment; Shaul Mofaz (Kadima),…
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Philadelphia’s Federation President Set To Retire
Six years after becoming the first openly gay leader of a Jewish federation, Harold Goldman is retiring from his chief executive post in Philadelphia — without anyone following in his footsteps. At the end of June, Goldman, 63, is giving up his post as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. He will be…
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Federations Move Toward Gay Outreach
When the World Pride gay festival kicks off in Jerusalem in August, Philadelphia’s Jewish community will be the only one in the United States to send an official delegation. Several gay synagogues across the country are sending groups to the festival, which was originally planned for August 2005 but was pushed back to this summer…
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You Wicked Son of a Wicked Man!
One can’t help but be tickled by the spectacle of the Satmar Hasidim tearing themselves apart these days in the battle between two brothers, Aaron and Zalman Teitelbaum, to inherit the title of grand rebbe from their father, the late Moses Teitelbaum. The Satmars, said to be the world’s largest Hasidic community, have a long…
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Djerba’s Lag b’Omer Pilgrims
Jews are said to have arrived in Djerba, off the coast of Tunisia, in 586 BCE, following the destruction of the First Temple. Tradition has it that they brought with them a stone from the destroyed edifice, on top of which was built the synagogue known as El-Ghriba, or “the wondrous.” Although the current structure…
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Henry Ford: The Change-Averse Revolutionary
As readers of the Forward know all too well, the modern world is no stranger to antisemitism. Although an animus against the Jews of the West dates as far back as antiquity, one of the most notorious, pernicious and enduring of antisemitic tracts — “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” — is actually an…
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Once-feuding Blood Relatives, United in a Marriage of Ideals
My grandmother Bessie was a Jewish communist. She read the Morning Freiheit from the day it was launched in 1922, and she held its long-time editor, Paul (Peysakh) Novick, in the kind of high regard that hasidim reserve for their rebbe. When the Freiheit folded in 1988, I offered my 94-year-old bubbe a subscription to…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL May 12, 2006
Once again, Joan Braman returns to Der Vinkl with one of her impressive translations of English classics into Yiddish, This time, the poem is William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils.” Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;…
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