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Bloomberg Blurs Party Lines in Bid for Jewish Votes
New York’s Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is leaving nothing to chance in his bid to lock up the Jewish vote in November. In recent days, the mayor has launched a high-profile “Democrats for Bloomberg” group featuring several icons of New York Jewish liberalism. He hired Governor George Pataki’s Jewish outreach director and declared his opposition…
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Remembering the Rosh Hashanah Cards of Yesteryear
When I was a child in New Jersey, I would correspond with a cousin who lived in Israel. I relished the missives I got from afar. Back then, my thoughts of Israel were based on what I saw in my Hebrew school textbook, “World Over”: women on tractors and desert battles. The letters were a…
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Hurricane Relief Plan Stirs School Vouchers Debate
The Bush administration’s plan to pay for the private school education of Hurricane Katrina evacuees has triggered the first major debate over church-state separation in the relief effort. During a tour of Houston last week, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings proposed that the government give $488 million to private schools that have taken in evacuated children…
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Guilt, Shame, Tantrums And Rosh Hashanah
The other day, I yelled at Josie. Really yelled. She has asthma, and so she tends to have a serious, multiday bout of wheezing every couple of months. I hate these times. She gasps for breath, and her eyes get glassy. But I trust our asthma and allergy doc, and I think she’s getting the…
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Israel Basks in New Warmth As Muslim States Hail Gaza Pullout
UNITED NATIONS — Meeting their warmest reception here in a generation, most notably from Muslim nations, Israeli leaders responded this week with a mixture of elation at their new standing in the world community and impatience at its limits. In a whirlwind week of diplomatic breakthroughs, the United Nations General Assembly Hall — not known…
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Organization Helps the Visually-impaired Feel Their Way Into the New Year
There is not a spot of ink on the pages of one of the High Holy Day prayer books produced by David Toiv’s nonprofit organization, the Jewish Heritage for the Blind — just line after line of raised bumps. The prayer book, which is in Braille, has been distributed free of charge for more than…
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Ex-Yeshiva Head Outs Himself, Leaves Fold
A former principal of one of New York’s most illustrious Modern Orthodox high schools has announced that he is gay and no longer an Orthodox Jew. Rabbi Alan Stadtmauer, 42, stepped down as head of the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School in June, after serving as a teacher and administrator for more than a decade….
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A Fruitful History
Pomegranates have been around since ancient times. The fruit has many biblical links, from ornamenting the high priests’ robes to decorating Solomon’s temple. Some scholars say that the pomegranate, rather than the apple, was the fruit that Eve gave to Adam in the Garden of Eden, as apples aren’t indigenous to the area. They can…
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Interview with author Marek Halter (Correction)
In the September 16 issue, an interview with author Marek Halter referred to a biblical figure incorrectly. Moses’ brother was Aaron, not Isaac.
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Paying Homage to a Fruit Rich in History — and Seeds
At the Rosh Hashanah table, as at all Jewish holiday meals, symbolic foods take pride of place. For the New Year, they will include two round challahs — symbolizing the cycle of life — apples and honey for a sweet year, and sometimes even beets, leeks and a fish head. But to Israeli-American food writer…
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College Columnist Fired Over Call for Profiling
A Jewish undergraduate at the University of North Carolina has been booted from the student newspaper after writing a column in defense of racial profiling. “I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport,” 20-year-old junior Jillian Bandes wrote in a column that appeared in…
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