WASHINGTON — President Bush’s pick for a federal appeals judgeship in Atlanta is drawing strong opposition from Jewish groups, including three organizations that usually refuse to take sides in judicial fights. Officials at the Anti-Defamation League, B’nai B’rith International and American Jewish Congress said that they felt obligated to abandon their typical silence on judicial…
Once again, Der Vinkl is pleased to offer our readers still another tasty dish of family humor drawn from the Yiddish Forverts under the title of khendelekh. The editor of the feature is Rukhl Shaechter, who seems to have an inexhaustible reservoir of such amusing tiny tales. The transliteration is by Goldie Gold, the English…
JERUSALEM — In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to stand up. In 2003, Vicki Knafo refused to lie down. It’s too early to say whether Knafo, the single mother from the Negev town of Mitzpe Ramon who marched to Jerusalem this month to protest the government’s austerity budget, will have the same impact as Parks. Parks’s…
Fierce Words: President Bush lied in making the case for the war in Iraq, and in at least one respect the situation there resembles Vietnam, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry suggested to reporters Monday. The Democratic presidential candidate, who spoke to the press in a conference call, said the president has “a clear credibility gap with…
Rabbi Bob Alper and Nazareth, a Christian Arab-American, join forces for a night of stand-up in “Comedy for Peace!” The performance is preceded by a 30-minute auction benefiting Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization that brings together young Israelis and Arabs in a summer camp in the hopes of fostering peace in the Middle…
Phyllis Chesler has made a career out of challenging the status quo. With over three decades of activism under her belt, the radical feminist author has exposed sexism in the field of psychology, fought against what she calls “gender apartheid” and, most recently, criticized women for their harmful, unsisterly ways. Now, however, Chesler — a…
The Fair Labor Standards Act (the Wage and Hour Law) passed in 1938 was one of the pillars of the New Deal, and it contributed to our economic recovery from the Great Depression. At this hour, that law should be updated by elevating the minimum wage to help reinvigorate our drooping economy. Raising the minimum…
The Musicorda Road Company performs music by Jewish composers in two concerts as part of the 17th annual Musicorda Summer Festival, which runs through August 5. The first concert features a performance of movements from Osvaldo Golijov’s “Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” for string quartet and klezmer clarinet. The second performance includes Mendelssohn’s…
Unorthodox Behavior: A blogger going by the nom de guerre “Hasidic Rebel” and an agunah named Chayie Sieger are airing their ultra-Orthodox communities’ dirty laundry in the mainstream media. Sieger’s story of a Bobover chasidic marriage gone bad — real bad — is chronicled in the July 28 issue of New York, a weekly magazine….
New York elected officials are demanding a second investigation into the four-year-old police slaying of a hammer-wielding Orthodox man in Brooklyn. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, whose district includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn, both Democrats, have mobilized separate efforts calling for a reopening of the investigation and urging Jewish groups…
Lectures and Discussions Jerusalem on the North Shore: Edward Edelstein, director of Jewish life and learning at the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center, discusses “Jews and Jerusalem: Roots of Peace, Seeds of Conflict,” a look at the history of Jerusalem, its connection to the Jewish people and its battle scars. Sid Jacobson JCC, 300 Forest…
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