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Bob Dole fought to free Soviet Jews
Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, who died on Sunday at 98, had a complex record on Israel but a much more clear-cut one on Soviet Jews, whose cause he championed as a senator and Senate leader. “The freedom of enslaved people is America’s business, and freedom is a task we must apply,” Dole, a Republican…
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Books Obsessed about positive coverage, Trump worked on Abraham Accords while in hospital with COVID, new book claims
Former President Donald Trump worked on expanding the Abraham Accords from his hospital bed where he was being treated for a life-threatening case of COVID-19, hoping the positive news coming out of the Middle East would distract the country’s attention away from his illness, his former chief of staff reveals in a new memoir. “Still…
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“Ask great questions” and other core principles of journalism — and Judaism
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. Our free printable weekly magazine is back! Download stories about Gabby Giffords’ Bat Mitzvah, Stephen Sondheim’s legacy, Hanukkah’s true meaning and much more. Since our…
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A USC student tweeted ‘kill every motherf——ing Zionist.’ Zionist faculty are unhappy with USC’s response.
A group of University of Southern California faculty members are demanding the school take action against a Palestinian student who posted several antisemitic tweets, including one saying she wanted “to kill every motherf——-g Zionist.” In an open letter addressed to the university president, provost, and board chairman published Dec. 1, the faculty said a lack…
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Karen Bass on Ilhan Omar, L.A. Jewry, homelessness, and her daughter’s memory
It was just before Thanksgiving when I sat down with Rep. Karen Bass to talk about her campaign for mayor of Los Angeles. The Homegirl Cafe where we met downtown was doing a brisk business in whole pies and turkey-shaped bread. “The holiday times are the worst for me,” she said. “I just wish I…
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Pandemic Hanukkah at Biden’s White House feels like a family gathering
Absent were the bands and choir performing traditional holiday songs. Notably missing, too, were the signature lamb-chop trays and assorted latkes. And in the pandemic-limited crowd of 150, dotted with yarmulkes with the presidential seal, a lone member of the Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn — a community that voted in large numbers for…
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Gabby Giffords’ bat mitzvah was as joyous and tearful as you’d expect
As former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords stood before the congregation of Temple Chaverim in Tucson, Ariz., and kissed her tallit, preparing to chant from the Torah for her bat mitzvah, Rabbi Stephanie Aaron placed her hand atop Giffords’ hand, her voice rising and falling along with Giffords’ own. It was an emotional moment two decades…
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Germany cut a reparations check to a Holocaust survivor. Then it demanded the money back.
The reparations checks Amira Gezow received every three months from the German government mattered to her. She had worked to get them and had helped other survivors secure theirs. For Gezow, a German-born woman who lost both her parents in the Holocaust, the checks were, monetarily, a pittance: 72.55 euros per month, or about 240…
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With special menorah, VP Harris and Doug Emhoff honor ‘mensch’ who kept paying employees after massive factory fire
This Hanukkah, as Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, the nation’s first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president, light their menorah, they are honoring a man famous for taking care of his workers. Aaron Feuerstein died of pneumonia last month at the age of 95, some 26 years after his…
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Did the pandemic lead to happier Jewish nonprofit workers? New survey suggests it did.
Jewish nonprofits were hard hit by the pandemic but many workers who survived furloughs and layoffs emerged reporting higher levels of job satisfaction. Employees said they had more autonomy and better access to information needed for their jobs as workplaces went remote 18 months ago, according to a survey conducted by Leading Edge, a group…
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Anxiety over Omicron hangs over Jewish gatherings — but the Hanukkah parties go on
The new, fast-spreading Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus is prompting rabbis, brides and synagogue-goers to wonder whether they need to take extra precautions to keep Jewish gatherings safe. Most Hanukkah events seem to be going on as planned and anxiety over the variant is low-level — but it’s there. “Our phones are ringing with…
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