Pre-Passover A Head Start on the Haggada: Get yourself into the celebratory spirit of Passover with the Israel-America Foundation’s “Passover ‘Pre-Seder’ Program,” supporting Clalit Health. The full-course glatt kosher meal — with wine, of course — is accompanied by services conducted by Rabbi Paul Levenson, aka the guitar-playing rabbi, as well as musician David Gordon…
Jewish philanthropists may be more generous than other Americans at cutting supersized checks to charities, according to a new study, but they give mere pennies on the dollar of their largest donations to Jewish causes. The study, titled Mega-Gifts in American Philanthropy, found that among the 865 Americans who awarded a single grant of $10…
This morning a man his head hanging from the weak curved stem of neck feeble wife beside him her hands grip a walker a small shopping bag knotted to her wrist she leans slides toward him he turns his head pain looks up around alarmed steadies her she is upright they walk ten or twelve…
Today’s “embedded” war correspondents are by no means the first to file from the front lines. Photographer Robert Capa (1913-1954) stood shoulder to shoulder with the rank and file in war after war, capturing on film the deaths, despair and surprising dignity found in trenches and on battlefields. With “Robert Capa: In Love and War”…
The eatery where the members of Congress go for their chow no longer serves “french fries,” serving “freedom fries” instead. This dramatic and dizzying deed is not without precedent. During World War I, sauerkraut (a German word) was changed to “liberty cabbage” — and we won the war. So, why not try it again against…
On March 14, the writer Amanda Davis and both her parents were killed in a small plane crash outside of Asheville, N.C., on the way to promote the publication of her first novel. Amanda, 32, was my close friend. Since that day, the title of her book, “Wonder When You’ll Miss Me,” has achieved a…
The presidential campaign of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is adding staff. The campaign has tapped Jay Footlik, chief liaison to the Jewish community for the Clinton White House during the mid-1990s, as its director of community outreach, a job that includes the Jewish portfolio. Also on board is Jared Ash, a young former staffer at…
‘Fierce desert weather, even more than the stubborn pockets of [Iraqi] resistance, conspired to slow the allied advance,” wrote John Kifner, reporting from southern Iraq, in last week’s International Herald Tribune. “The sandstorm, reaching the level of a hamsin, the brown dust that blots out all vision in the desert, began during the night…. By…
Rabbi Sidney Greenberg, 85, one of Conservative Judaism’s most respected writers on Jewish prayer, holidays and spirituality, died of a stroke Monday at his home in Manhattan. A native New Yorker, Greenberg served as rabbi of Temple Sinai, now in the Philadelphia suburb of Dresher, for more than 50 years. Following his retirement in 1996,…
Grace Paley, our treasure, and one of the great short story writers of our time, writes — why not? — poetry as well, reflections, observations, lightning quick — sometimes arising as here from a moment’s inspiration. “I was standing on the corner of 10th and Sixth Avenue,” she wrote to the Forward, “they were about…
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Joseph Lieberman came out swinging left on Monday, invoking the name of liberal icon Paul Wellstone as he told a conference here that he would work to pass a bill mandating spousal benefits for domestic partners of gay federal employees. The Connecticut senator’s remarks stood in stark contrast to…
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