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A Robot Speaks, and Online Fans Express Joy
Christmas Eve comes with a lot of anticipation for those who celebrate the holiday. But for thousands of Jewish fans of the online comic strip “ShaBot6000,” anticipation took a different form: On December 24, 2004, their favorite cartoon character spoke. The creation of animator William Levin, ShaBot6000 is a “try-weekly” (he tries to get one…
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New Fiscal Chief at Seminary Resigns Post Amid Debt Crisis
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America’s new chief financial officer has resigned after just three months on the job at a time when the institution, the flagship of Conservative Judaism, is facing an unprecedented fiscal crisis. The departure of CFO Richard Bengloff marks the second resignation in four months of a top seminary financial officer….
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The Bad Mommy Awards
There are times when you know, with absolute certainty, that you are the worst parent ever to walk the earth. These epic Bad Mommy Moments aren’t, like, Susan Smith or Andrea Yates-level crises, DefCon Five. Your kids live. But after a Bad Mommy Moment, you aren’t sure you want to. A couple of weeks back,…
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Ex-Pentagon Aide Cautions Neocons On Mideast Push
A former top-level Pentagon official is opening up a new front in the Middle East: He’s taking aim at the neoconservatives who he says have been viewing the Iraqi election and other recent regional developments as an invitation to a full-scale democracy push. “We’re not going to transform the Middle East overnight,” Dov Zakheim told…
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Hopping on ‘The Bandwagon’ of Musical Legends
How do you pay tribute to musical legends? You put on a show! And that’s just what the Drama League did on stage at The Pierre hotel at the league’s January 31 benefit tribute to lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green. There were film clips from the Comden and Green classics “The Bandwagon,” “Singin’ in…
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Israeli Newspaper Brawl Moving to the Internet
TEL AVIV — In a bid to supplant the two major English-language newspapers produced in Israel, Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s most influential and widely read newspaper, this week unveiled Ynetnews.com, its long-awaited English-language Web site. The centrist Yedioth is one of the three major Hebrew-language newspapers in Israel, along with Ma’ariv, a right-leaning tabloid, and Ha’aretz,…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL February 25, 2005
In his typically incredible way, our steady contributor, Stanley Siegelman, has unearthed an otherwise obscure item about zoos. In Lithuania, high-ranking Orthodox rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv frowns on the operation of zoos. He even would forbid visiting a zoo. His authority is a 16th-century code of Jewish law that bars the raising of animals for…
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N.Y. School Board Bans a Controversial Arab Professor
A pro-Palestinian professor at Columbia University, hailed by some Jewish students as a model instructor, is being barred by the New York City Department of Education from lecturing public-school teachers. A spokesman for the school board attributed the move against Rashid Khalidi, the Arab-American director of Columbia’s Middle East Institute, to “past statements” on the…
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Plan To Combat Sexual Abuse Unveiled
A rabbi at the forefront of efforts to curb abuse in the Orthodox community is launching an initiative to certify organizations that adopt policies to combat the problem. The rabbi, Mark Dratch, told the Forward that he is planning to leave his post as religious leader of Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Conn., in “six…
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Hadassah Pushing Stem-cell Legislation
In a move that is likely to bring it into conflict with Catholic and Evangelical Christian groups, the largest Jewish organization in America is launching a push for pro-stem-cell-research legislation in state houses around the country. Hadassah, the 300,000-member women’s Zionist organization, is bringing hundreds of advocates to the capitals of 47 states this spring…
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Divestment Pushed
The World Council of Churches this week voted to urge its members across the globe to divest from Israel to protest the Jewish state’s treatment of Palestinians. The action took Jewish communal leaders by surprise, much like the divestment vote last July by the Presbyterian Church (USA). The Presbyterian vote jump-started an international bandwagon of…
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