The newly formed International Criminal Court, already facing outright opposition from the Bush administration, is now under criticism from local leaders in northern Uganda , as it is about to issue its first-ever arrest warrants, against leaders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. A coalition of Ugandan religious and traditional leaders, backed by human rights…
HOUSTON — An independent auditor believes that the Reform rabbinical union’s missing $1 million was spent on a legitimate organizational expense, according to the group’s incoming president. The newly elected president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Harry Danziger, told the Forward that the finding was contained in an interim report filed by independent…
An anonymous Jewish women’s group threw a monkey wrench into a Jewish Theological Seminary celebration Tuesday when it issued a fake press release announcing that the Conservative movement was set to unveil a historic plan to ordain gay and lesbian rabbis. The group, Jewish Women Watching, has claimed credit for the bogus press release, which…
The hardiest stereotype in basketball is that “white men can’t jump.” If this view needed disproving, a boy’s high school team with an all-Jewish starting five has won the Class AA Illinois state title. The victory, several observers said, hearkens back to a pre-World War II era, when Jewish players dominated the game at all…
Dr. Joan Braman is a resident of Riverdale, New York, who has a doctorate in psychology and an interest in English literature and in the Yiddish language. She has translated and adapted many English literary classics into Yiddish. We are delighted by her decision to submit her work to our Yiddish Vinkl. What follows is…
Even as disputes over the Middle East roil Columbia University, the school is announcing the establishment of its first chair in Israel studies. A search committee will meet for the first time this week to begin seeking a professor to fill the Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi chair in Israel and Jewish studies, named after the elder…
Jewish Democratic lawmakers took the lead this week in demanding that Congress stay out of the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who has been kept alive for 15 years by a feeding tube. In particular, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida took aim at President Bush. She criticized him for signing the…
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An article on whistling in the March 11 issue described Frampol as a “fictional shtetl.” It is in fact an actual historical town. Due to an editing error, the March 18 article “Jewish Officials Profess Shock Over Report on Zionist Body” incorrectly identified Mandell Ganchrow as current director of the Religious Zionists of America. He…
Philanthropy watchdogs are criticizing the percentage of funds that a venerable tree-planting charity is spending on its programs. In the late 1990s, the American branch of the Israel-based Jewish National Fund was wracked by scandal over the small share of its revenue that was reaching the parent charity in Israel for land and water development…
Posted on the Web site of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance is a prayer composed by Rabbi Mordecai Tendler on behalf of agunot — Jewish women who are unable to obtain a religious divorce decree from their husbands. Tendler’s touching supplication, asking God to “deliver all the agunot from the bonds of their plight,” aptly…
די „שלום־עליכם לעקציע“ וועט מען קענען הערן אויפֿן אָרט אָדער דורך דער אינטערנעץ.
