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History’s Scrap Heap: Families Sell Off Yards, and Legacy
LAS VEGAS — When Barry Kroot and his brother signed away the deed to their family’s scrap metal yard last month, they joined a new Jewish exodus. Like many other scrap metal businesses in America, K&F Industries got started when a relative (in this case, Barry’s grandfather) came from a Polish shtetl to small-town America….
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Getting a Jump on Hebrew Through Deep Immersion
Every day at 12:30 p.m. in the Beth El Early Childhood Center in Voorhees, N.J., a total of eight children, all 3 and 4 years old , file into a room. They are all talking simultaneously, as children do, about the usual pressing kiddie topics: dinosaurs, lunch, the playground. What is unusual about their conversation?…
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GOP Bible Bill Upsets Liberals, But Ga. Dems See Political Gains
In a stark reversal of political fortune, Democratic legislators attempting to seize the pro-religion spotlight in Georgia last month have found themselves unexpectedly converted into backers of a Republican bill to teach the Bible in public schools. The bill, which was overwhelmingly approved by the legislature and is expected to be signed by Republican Governor…
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ZOA Pressed by Former Officials Over Guard’s Pay
A group of former presidents and executive directors from the Zionist Organization of America is putting pressure on the organization’s current leadership over severance payments that have been denied to the ZOA’s longtime security guard. Seven former ZOA presidents and executive directors have come together in the weeks since the Forward wrote an article describing…
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Stance on U.N. Council Raises Concerns
UNITED NATIONS — The Bush administration’s decision not to seek a seat on a newly created United Nations human rights council has Jewish groups worried that America is passing up an opportunity to bolster the defense of human rights and prevent unfair treatment of Israel. Several major Jewish organizations prudently have expressed understanding for the…
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Brooklyn Pols Under Fire After Protests Against Police
Two Orthodox politicians in Brooklyn are embroiled in a growing controversy over their claims that the police were responsible for a riot last week in the Hasidic enclave of Boro Park and that a top officer had used an anti-Jewish epithet. Council member Simcha Felder and State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, both Democrats, voiced their allegations…
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Gaza Shelled, Pressure on Hamas Builds
JERUSALEM — Israel shelled Gaza this week as Ehud Olmert intesified Israeli political, military and economic pressure on the new Hamas-led Palestinian government, a strategy he hopes will force the terrorist group to change its ways or be overthrown. The aim is to isolate Hamas internationally, cut off direct funding to the Palestinian Authority and…
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Newsdesk April 14, 2006
Labor Wants Agency Post As one of its demands in coalition negotiations, the Labor Party is seeking to regain from Likud the chairmanship of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Two Labor figures, Collete Avital and Haggai Merom, are fighting to take over the quasi-governmental agency, which receives more than $200 million from American Jewish charitable…
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Klein Offers To Pay Insurance for Official’s Widow
The national president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein, has promised the widow of a former executive director that the organization will resume making payments for her health care — two years after those payments were abruptly cut off. Klein made the offer after the Forward inquired about the 89-year old widow’s situation….
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Springing Into Action
In the hospital where I spent my critical care rotation, the patients in the intensive care unit (“the unit,” for short) weren’t as sick as those in some other hospitals. They were all more or less aware and oriented to their surroundings. You could have a conversation with them. On one not particularly busy day,…
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Mourning the Loss of a Lower East Side Jewel
The razing last month of the First Roumanian-American Congregation, Shaarey Shamoyim, one of the oldest synagogues on New York City’s Lower East Side, hit me hard. Really hard. Following the collapse of the building’s 150-year-old roof, the city’s Department of Buildings felt it had no choice but to tear down the entire structure, lest lives…
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