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Groups Backing Rally for Choice
WASHINGTON — A massive abortion rights rally planned for April in Washington, D.C. is garnering support from several leading national Jewish groups. The April 25 march is planned as a major show of strength for abortion rights supporters at a time when anti-abortion forces are on the offensive, with President Bush last week signing legislation…
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Carlsbad (for the time being)
August 31, 1931. Doctor Cyrus Adler. Dear Sir: The purpose of my letter is to call your attention to the situation of Tarbut and its educational institutions in Lithuania. While I was there last year, I observed how great and how important is the educational work which is being accomplished there through the Tarbut Association…
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CUNY’s Chiefs Befriend Israel’s Open U.
Presidents of a dozen City University of New York colleges joined 450 guests at the Waldorf Astoria’s Starlight Roof for the October 29 American Friends of Open University of Israel gala honoring the City University of New York’s chancellor, Matthew Goldstein, the first CUNY graduate to lead the prominent urban public university. The evening’s chair,…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Dean Damage Update: More headaches for former Vermont governor Howard Dean: An outspoken Orthodox assemblyman says he is going to make an issue in the New York primary out of Dean’s September gaffe on Israel. Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat who represents Borough Park in Brooklyn, is vowing to give Dean grief for his remark…
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Cracks Form in the Wall of Separation
A revolution is underway in church-state relations, and the Jewish community has yet to grapple forthrightly with it. In earlier years, the constitutional rule in regard to the disbursement of public money to religious institutions was simple: Aid that gave a substantial benefit to institutions teaching religion was impermissible. By contrast, the current legal regime…
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Fiction Parades As Fact in the Jobless Recovery
How’s the American economy doing? “Lousy,” say the critics of the Bush regime. “Beautifully,” say the Bush backers. The critics point to the falling income of the average American household as announced by the Census Bureau. They also point to the rising number of jobless and add that, if the “discouraged” workers who have given…
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Senator Urges Orthodox Leaders To Wage War on Secularism
The senate’s third-ranking Republican urged Orthodox leaders to fight the powers of “radical secularism” as if “the lives of your children are at stake.” Senator Rick Santorum, leader of the Senate Republican conference, issued his call Monday in Manhattan during the Monday keynote address at a gathering of Orthodox Union leaders, an organization representing about…
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Young Philanthropists Get Involved
When Jewish philanthropies imagine their ideal young donors, they probably have people like Anne Heyman and Seth Merrin in mind. To say that the Manhattan couple — she’s from South Africa, he’s a New Yorker, they met in Israel — are involved in Jewish causes barely nicks the surface. Heyman, 42, chairs the board of…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL November 14, 2003
The Yiddish Forward devoted a page in its October 10 edition to Sukkot and Simchat Torah. These holidays are, like Thanksgiving, related to the harvest time. Indeed, some believe that the colonial Thanksgiving was based on the Puritans’ reading of the Old Testament. Sukkot runs for several days and closes with the reading of the…
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Rewriting the Script on Reagan: Why the President Ignored AIDS
For the last two months I’ve been teaching a course titled “Plagues and Politics: The Impact of AIDS on U.S. Culture” at Dartmouth College, and have spent an enormous amount of time thinking about the AIDS pandemic. So when the political flap over the historical accuracy of “The Reagans” — the CBS miniseries on the…
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U.S. To Support Rare Israeli Resolution
UNITED NATIONS — The administration has indicated that it would vote in favor of the first resolution introduced by Israel to the United Nations General Assembly in 27 years. The resolution, which is on the protection of children, was to be formally introduced in the third committee of the General Assembly on Wednesday in response…
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