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What a Jewish editor can learn answering letters to Santa
Here’s what they don’t tell you about being Santa Claus: it can be heart-wrenching. Every year, the Boston Globe receives as many as 17,000-plus letters addressed to Santa Claus. This year, the paper put me, a Jewish journalist who was a reporter and editor there for 36 years, in charge of writing about them. “How…
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Reform rabbis group finds flaws in its handling of misconduct accusations
The association that oversees Reform rabbis detailed problems with the way it handles accusations of sexual misconduct and other ethical violations in an extensive report released Wednesday. The report found that despite numerous revisions since its code of ethics was created in 1991, the Central Conference of American Rabbis has often failed to effectively investigate…
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Book by book: A granddaughter lovingly dismantles ‘Lissy’s Library’
Lissy Jarvik’s personal library catalogued her kaleidoscopic range of interests. Among hundreds of spines on her shelves were mystery novels, art monographs, history books and landmark volumes on feminist theory. Titles about the Holocaust and psychology were windows into the life of a woman who escaped the Nazis and made the study of aging her…
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He brought Hanukkah to a street famous for Christmas lights. Antisemitism followed — but so did joy.
It’s a holiday tradition in Baltimore: Visiting the Miracle on 34th Street, a city block where houses go all out with candy canes, rooftop Santas and life-size plastic elves and snowmen — except for one row house, where a seven-foot-tall inflatable polar bear spins a dreidel, and a silver LED menorah “burns” from Thanksgiving to…
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Your turn: Readers share their stories of epic typos
Not one but two people had embarrassing stories of “public” being printed – very publicly – without the “l.” Another misspelled “Holocaust” throughout his master’s thesis. Many shared tales of auto-correct gone wrong, or tips on how to (try) to catch mistakes before hitting send. There were those who sent emails riddled with spelling errors…
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They lost pregnancies or infants. Now, Israeli parents want access to burials that have long been secret
JERUSALEM – Ten years ago, Aliza and Netanel Fenichel and their young children were in a car accident. Aliza, who was 25 weeks pregnant and badly injured, underwent an emergency cesarean section to save her life, and her unborn son’s. The boy weighed about a pound and a half and died the same day. “When…
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Eating pizza and talking Jewish politics with Tom Suozzi, who’s running for governor of New York
Tom Suozzi, a Democratic Congressman from New York, sees his current bid for governor of New York as a moment of ”bashert,” a Yiddish term often used to express the seeming fate of an important event. He is one of at least three candidates who are competing in next year’s Democratic primary against the incumbent,…
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21 Jewish moments of 2021
Time can be a funny thing. “The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion,” Albert Einstein once said. That seems like a pretty good description of the year that was. The past twelve months have, at times, felt like so much more. America and Israel both got new leaders and…
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‘I’ll have what he’s having’: Told he had little time left, my rabbi-dad wanted a last meal at Katz’s deli
There was no way my father, 92 and with stage 4 metastatic colon cancer, could wait in the 40-minute line for what we knew would be his last meal at Katz’s Deli, so we dropped my sister off and went to park. Miraculously, after a single circling, we found a parking spot a block from…
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At Canada’s top university, leading Jewish groups lose an antisemitism battle
When the University of Toronto announced that it had accepted all the recommendations of a campus working group on antisemitism, much of the Canadian Jewish establishment reacted with frustration and anger. “This report is beyond disappointing,” Michael Mostyn, chief of B’nai Brith Canada said in a statement. Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group based…
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Rabbis warn Jews are ‘self-censoring’ on race, gender
Rabbis from more than 100 North American congregations have signed a letter decrying the exclusion of Jews whose views on race and gender fall to the right of the progressive mainstream. “The ascendency of an ideology that in its most simplistic form sees the world solely in binary terms of oppressed versus oppressor, and categorizes…
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