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Bialik’s Poetic Plea to the Joint: Save Our Schools
In 1931, the Hebrew-language schools of the Lithuanian Jewish community, known as the Tarbut schools, applied (not for the first time) for increased support from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York. Tarbut’s executive committee, seeking to impress upon the Joint the gravity of the situation, turned not to a distinguished philanthropist or…
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Misguided Advice on Israeli Aid
Recently it came to my horrified attention that my Forward e-mail has been disappearing into the void of virtual reality — by the ream. Hundreds of letters were delivered into my mailbox but never came out the other side; many e-mails never made it into the mailbox in the first place. Last week the dedicated…
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Newsdesk November 14, 2003
Lobbyist Lands New Post A pro-Israel activist recently dismissed from the Zionist Organization of America quickly found a new home with the American Jewish Congress. Sarah Stern, who headed the ZOA’s Washington office for six years until she was dismissed earlier this month, will assume the same post at AJCongress. Stern left the ZOA on…
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Comparing Apples With Apples When It Comes to Executive Pay
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, earned $357,375 last year, not counting benefits. The president of New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center, Barry Freedman, took in $1.3 million. Are those figures too high? A report last month in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on the large salaries of Jewish communal executives prompted much clucking…
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An Ingestible ‘Missile’ Helps Target Disease
Dr. Gavriel J. Iddan is a mechanical engineer who worked on imaging devices for Rafael, an Israeli government-owned research and development company that works with the Jewish state’s Ministry of Defense. Some 20 years ago, he worked on different types of electro-optical equipment, some of it related to guided missile systems. Today, Iddan is taking…
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On National Mall, a Gathering of Guardians of Shoah Memory
“Remember, fellow survivors, when we emerged from the ghettos and the forests and the death camps, hopelessly determined to invoke hope and tell the tales, few were willing to listen. Survivors were understood by survivors alone. They spoke in code. Those who were not there will never know what it meant being there. All outsiders…
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Rap Star Takes Pro-Israel Stance
Tuesday night was Hammer time on the Tovia Singer Show. The erstwhile rap star M.C. Hammer voiced his staunch support for Israel on Singer’s New York-based radio show, which airs on Israel’s Arutz 7 radio station. Hammer (nè Stanley Kirk Burrell) spoke about the Holy Land, black-Jewish relations and the loss of his fortune in…
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Once More, Survivors Find Comfort in One Another
Allegra Tevet, like so many others, could not take the strange, hot, fall-afternoon sun this past Sunday. So my 81-year-old mother-in-law sat in the shade of a cavernous white tent as she looked up at a big video screen at Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel speaking from the plaza outside of the United States Holocaust Memorial…
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UJC May Shrink Jewish Agency Funding
On the eve of the annual gathering of North American Jewish charitable federations in Jerusalem, supporters of their main Israeli beneficiary, the Jewish Agency for Israel, are in an uproar over a proposal by fundraisers that could slash the agency’s funding. Federation representatives recommended this week that funding to their other main overseas partner, American…
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Dancers Kick Up Their Heels In Pursuit of a World Record
LAKEWOOD, N.J. — It was supposed to be one for the record books. Thousands of people from all over New Jersey descended on Sunday’s Garden State Jewish Festival in First Energy Park—home of the minor-league Blueclaws baseball team—in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by creating the largest hora ever recorded….
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Sharing Painful Memories Reveals Many Unexpected Connections
I have just returned home after spending the weekend with several thousand fellow Holocaust survivors. We gathered in Washington, D.C., most of us brought together by the notion that this collective minyan may well be our last. We have reached our golden years — we who once lived as if each day, each hour, would…
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