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JCC Director Forced Out
The founding director of the acclaimed Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, Debby Hirshman, was asked to step down the day before Rosh Hashana after 13 years of service, the Forward has learned. A JCC press release states that Hirshman resigned, but the co-chair of the JCC board told the Forward that the board had asked…
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A Booth of One’s Own
For Sukkot: Leviticus 22:26-23:44; Numbers 29:12-16. The haftarah: Zechariah 14:1-21. ——- The sukkah, ordered over the Internet and erected with some bickering, had collapsed once already. “Flanders,” said his sister, Ruth. “Will you come out here, please? Careful, Rolph. And Nadine, please don’t play with your dairy.” Flanders got up, strolled to the window and…
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Newsdesk October 10, 2003
Twin Vandalism Incidents in Brooklyn At least 35 tires were slashed in a Jewish section of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn over Yom Kippur, and a Jewish neighborhood patrol says a cup of urine was thrown into a synagogue while people were praying. Meanwhile, in Sheepshead Bay, another predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, six…
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One Great Sukkah
On the High Holy Days we go off to our own synagogues within our own denominations to pray and be inspired. But Sukkot offers the vision of one big sukkah, or one big shul, in which every Jew can fit and feel welcome. In the Babylonian Talmud, our rabbis state: “‘Every citizen shall dwell in…
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War for Jewish Vote Seen in Philly Mayoral Race
Four years ago, a whopping 82% of Jewish voters in Philadelphia’s mayoral election cast ballots for Republican Sam Katz, who narrowly lost to Democrat John Street. Next month, Katz faces Street again in a rematch, but Street supporters say that many city Jews may abandon Katz this time around. Street adviser David Hyman, a former…
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What a Wonderful World
‘Wonder” is the word that most comes to mind when considering the life and work of Louis Armstrong. It’s not just that one of his last hit songs was “What a Wonderful World,” which, along with “Hello, Dolly,” vied with the Beatles for the top spot on the pop charts during the 1960s and had…
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Dems Stand With Bush on Syria Attack
The top Democratic presidential candidates, who have differed sharply with President Bush over his conduct of the Iraq war, are registering their agreement with him over his support for Israel’s bombing of a terrorist target in Syria. The president called the airborne attack, which hit what Israel described as a training camp of Islamic Jihad…
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Kosher Chat & Chew on Chowhound.com
‘Chowhounders know that kosher food has come a long way from Tam-Tam crackers and Stella D’Oro cookies,” Amy Tarshis told the Forward, referring to the hundreds of thousands of Chowhound.com devotees that flock to the Web site’s message boards to swap tales of far-flung food and flavor. Once upon a time, the priority of patrons…
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Foes Warn Measure Could Hurt Efforts To Fight Bias
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial bid is overshadowing a ballot initiative that will either — depending upon whom one asks — bring the Golden State one step closer to realizing the dream of a color-blind society or stymie government efforts to fight discrimination and serve an ethnically diverse population. Proposition 54, a proposed constitutional amendment on the…
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Author Battling Antisemitism at the Ice Rink
In March 2002, Israeli ice dancers Sergei Sakhnovsky and Galit Chait won a bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in Nagano, Japan, edging out a Lithuanian pair who finished in fourth place. Within days, a petition was circulating among skaters and judges saying that the Israelis’ medal was “not justified.” “How much did…
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