Jay-Z, 50 Cent and now — joining the pantheon of nicknamed musical wonders — there’s MC Hy. Though Hyim Jacob Ross is happy to be known by his full moniker, clearly he has taken on some of the characteristics of the hip-hop world. But, don’t call him a Jewish hip-hop artist. Though he collaborates with…
The news item that the inimitable Stanley Siegelman chose for his column this week is the announcement that California’s Stanford University is now offering a three-year program in the study of Yiddish literature. Here it is, in Siegelman’s very own brand of Yinglish — a mix of Yiddish and English. Der Kosher “U” Bay California’s…
“We’re here… to celebrate one of the most powerful and influential groups advocating for women’s health, empowerment, and rights in Asia, Africa and Latin America — the International Women’s Health Coalition,” actress and emcee Kathleen Turner said at its January 11 dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street. Alluding to the tsunami disaster, Kati Marton, IWHC board…
In the January 21 article “Harry’s Biggest Crime? His Nazi Joke Wasn’t Funny,” writer Ros Taylor was misidentified. She is a journalist with the Guardian newspaper. A January 21 article on the International Sephardic Film Festival failed to note that the sponsoring agencies are the American Sephardi Federation, Sephardic House and Yeshiva University Museum.
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If you read the newspapers or watch the news on television, you couldn’t have avoided hearing, probably more than once, the expression “of biblical proportions” in connection with the Asian tsunami. “A disaster of biblical proportions,” the New York Daily News reported. “A humanitarian crisis of biblical proportions,” the Washington Post declared. “A tragedy of…
Dozens of prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis are backing an international effort to ban a fellow rabbi’s books, arguing that the works are heretical because they suggest the earth is much older than a literal reading of Genesis would suggest. The target of the campaign is Rabbi Nosson Slifkin, an ultra-Orthodox author known as the “Zoo Rabbi,”…
In what appears to be a devastating two-part blow to the Bush administration’s prewar case for toppling Saddam Hussein, the U.S. military has called off its failed two-year search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and a CIA-linked report claims that the Middle East country has replaced Afghanistan as the main training ground for…
WASHINGTON — America’s two largest synagogue movements and several major national Jewish agencies are joining a campaign to oppose attempts to outlaw abortion, arguing that reproductive rights are a religious freedom. The campaign was launched this week by the National Council of Jewish Women on the 32nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court…
Kerry Forth: Cameron Kerry, Senator John’s Jewish brother, has joined the executive committee of the National Jewish Democratic Council. The post carries hefty duties: Committee members must pledge or raise $25,000 a year for the group. Cameron Kerry told the Forward he signed on “to continue the involvement I had in the campaign in outreach…
JERUSALEM — Many European Holocaust victims looked to Israeli banks to serve as a refuge for their assets during World War II, but a new report suggests that it was an imperfect refuge at best. A Knesset committee issued a report Tuesday detailing thousands of accounts in Israeli banks that were never returned to Holocaust…
