With the Supreme Court set to take up the issue of affirmative action in university admissions for the first time in a quarter-century, the Anti-Defamation League appears to be the only major Jewish group to weigh in with a brief opposing the University of Michigan policies that are being challenged. “What we want is society…
WASHINGTON — Jewish welfare and refugee agencies are watching nervously to see the impact of a new Bush administration regulation that could restrict access to emergency room services for poor patients on Medicaid. The regulation, issued last month in a letter to state Medicaid directors from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, allows…
Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life By Lauren F. Winner Algonquin, 303 pages, $23.95. * * *| Once a committed, educated Jew, now a passionate Anglican Christian, Lauren F. Winner presents a problem to anyone who has thought about the sociology of conversion. Today, Jews who have experienced traditional Judaism —…
JERUSALEM — Israel and the United States are preparing a new joint peace initiative for possible release following Israel’s January 28 general election, the Forward has learned. The initiative, details of which are still being ironed out in high-level, behind-the-scenes talks, would reportedly include a joint American-Israeli call for the establishment of a “demilitarized Palestinian…
Fairfax is the best avenue in Los Angeles, containing within one miracle mile Little Ethiopia and the Peterson Auto Museum, the L.A. County Museum of Art and a farmers market. Cross Beverly Boulevard and you come upon Russian nightclubs and Israeli cafes. But lately creeping into this “one size feeds all” marketplace are a chain…
For four generations, Carol Speser’s family has been deeply rooted in Buffalo’s Jewish community and in the congregation at Temple Beth Zion, one of the city’s most prominent synagogues. Although her hectic schedule as a leader in the city’s gay and lesbian community leaves her little time to attend services, she still considers the shul…
THE ENORMOUS SUM OF ZERO: As Max Bialystock, Mostel extols the bounties of the producers’ life to his nebbishy star-struck accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), in Mel Brooks’s first full-length feature film, which the Center for Jewish History will screen on Monday as part of its ‘Jewish Humor in America’ series . ‘The Producers,” Mel…
Lebanese Envoy Slammed Lebanon’s top diplomat in Canada has landed in political hot water following undiplomatic comments about the influence of Canada’s Jewish community. Raymond Baaklini, the Lebanese ambassador, drew a stern rebuke from Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham following remarks to an Arabic-language newspaper in Montreal in which he claimed that “Zionists” owned…
‘Kerngate: Body blow, not knockout,” said a front-page headline in the January 10 Jerusalem Post in an allusion to allegations of financial impropriety made against Prime Minister Sharon and his two sons in connection with money received by them from Anglo-Jewish businessman Cyril Kern. And now that we have a Jewish context to discuss it…
WASHINGTON — The twisted wreckage of a bus and the burnt-out storefront of a fast-food place. The glare of police lights bouncing off of body bags. Technicians picking though debris in full-body infection suits. When Ralph Morten sees scenes like these, they usually are on television news reports from Tel Aviv or Jerusalem or some…
CHAPTER 59: BLOOD AND SNOW In Chapter 58, the bodies of dead yeshiva students were discovered in the snow. * * *| A SERIALIZED NOVEL By Anne Roiphe The snow was grand indeed, also relentless. It weighed down on the yellow crime-scene ribbons, causing them to fall and disappear into the rising drifts. The police…
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