The August 20 issue of the Forward inadvertently gave the wrong contact information for the Familial Dysautonomia Hope Foundation. It is: 1170 Green Knolls Drive Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 Office: (847) 913-0455 Fax: (847) 913-8589 Web site: www.fdhope.org E-mail: [email protected]
Israel Blames Syria Israel implicated Syria in Tuesday’s double suicide bombing in Beersheva. Syria has continued to offer logistical and financial backing to terrorist organizations operating out of Damascus, a senior military official told Ha’aretz. At least 16 people died in the bombings. This is the first time that Palestinians have succeeded in carrying out…
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The former editor and publisher of Florida’s now-defunct Jewish Star Times is suing Miami Herald Publishing Company for defamation. Dwight Owen Schweitzer filed the $3 million lawsuit in Miami Dade circuit court last week. In a press release, he stated that The Miami Herald — which owned Jewish Star Times — published…
A new study says the American Jewish community must redefine its definition of militant Islam in order to create crucial new dialogue partnerships with American Muslims — the fastest-growing faith group in the United States. The as-yet-unreleased study, obtained by the Forward, argues that Jewish leaders are doing long-term damage by rejecting potential Muslim partners…
MONTREAL — A rabbi who served two years in prison for kidnapping is fighting to retain refugee status in Canada, claiming that he has a “well-founded fear of persecution” if forced to return to Israel. In 1994 an American court in Brooklyn, N.Y., convicted Rabbi Erez Shlomo Elbarnes, 41, for kidnapping a 13-year-old boy. The…
Last year, the number of people in the United States without health insurance hit a record-breaking level of 45 million, according to the Census Bureau. Actually, there was a time when no one in the U.S. enjoyed the benefits of “third-party medicine,” the “third party” being an agency that was neither the patient nor the…
The massive protest against the Republican National Convention in New York on Sunday made for big surprises of the quietest kind: The media prepped the city for chaos and violence that never materialized. Jewish groups taking part in the demonstration were braced for additional tensions, but these, too, were largely absent at the end of…
A number of readers have written in about my August 13 column, “Questioning Virginity.” All have taken issue with my saying that the Greek word parthenos, in the Septuagint’s translation of the Hebrew almah in Isaiah 7:14, means “virgin.” Thus, for example, Peter Siegel comments: “You have fallen into the linguistic equivalent of the urban…
His patients know him as Dr. Barnett Zumoff, head of the department of endocrinology and metabolism at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. Members of The Forward Association and the Arbeter Ring know him as a macher — an important person — in these and other institutions and movements in American Jewish life. Readers…
When Howard Rieger becomes president of United Jewish Communities on September 1, he will take the reins of an organization confronting defining questions about its role as the coordinating body for 155 North American Jewish federations. After three years in which giving to the federation’s annual campaign has declined, UJC has struggled with its budgetary…
Gal Friedman became the first Israeli ever to win an Olympic gold medal, when he won the windsurfing event in Athens on Wednesday. Friedman, who took home the bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996, is also the first Israeli to win two Olympic medals. After Friedman crossed the finish line Wednesday, he took a victory…
