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Forward 50 2018
Zalman Tiechtel
Making Jewish College Life In Kansas Accessible, Rewarding And Tasty! Our two years of producing a college guide has given us tremendous insight into the innovations and personalities affecting Jewish life at the colleges around the country. Yes, we’ve seen innovations at places better known for their Jewish life, like Brown and Harvard or even…
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A Tax Break For Rabbis Might Be Unconstitutional. Can They Make Ends Meet Without It?
What does Rabbi Aviad Bodner, leader of Manhattan’s historic Stanton Street Shul, which seats 400, have in common with televangelist mega-preachers whose sermons reach millions of people around the world? All get a tax break on their housing costs — despite the fact that Bodner rents a two-bedroom in Manhattan’s East Village with his wife…
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Forward 50 2018 Arthur Ashkin
Proving It’s Never Too Late To Make History You don’t need to understand what optic tweezers are or how they have revolutionized contemporary physics to understand the achievement of Nobel Prize winner Arthur Ashkin. Indeed, even Bell Labs, his former employer, eschews the scientific to describe the tweezers as grabbing “particles, atoms, viruses and other…
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Forward 50 2018 Jodi Kantor
Journalist Who Made a Lasting Impact It was a little more than a year ago, October 5, 2017, that The New York Times published an explosive front-page story by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, headlined, “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades.” After years of rumors about Weinstein and his secret settlements with…
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Forward 50 2018 Andre Aciman
Exemplary Dad & Author of ‘Call Me By Your Name’ It is late 1993. My dad and I are eating peanuts on the back of the M11 bus. Remember this moment for the rest of your life, he tells me. Some moments are worth remembering even if you can’t understand why, and some things you…
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Mississippi’s Tiny Jewish Community Makes Choice In 2018’s Last Election
There are only around 1,500 Jews in the entire state of Mississippi. But with the state’s runoff Senate race expected to be closer than any in a generation, the community may get the chance to play a decisive role when the votes are cast on Tuesday. The choices: Democratic former Rep. Mike Espy, who would…
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He Bears Witness At A Child ‘Concentration Camp’ On The Border
In a dusty, deserted patch of desert near the border with Mexico, inside a tent city enclosed with a giant fence, are thousands of detained children and teenagers. Just outside the locked entrance, sitting on a metal chair and holding a sign that says “FREE THEM,” is Joshua Rubin. Rubin, 67, a software developer from…
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Is The Temple Sisterhood Over? Or Reinventing Itself?
Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, in Lancaster, PA, is one of the oldest continually operating congregations in North America. Its cemetery has graves from the colonial period. Its sisterhood was founded in 1894. But when that sisterhood decided a couple years ago to try to attract younger members, they changed their name — the Temple Sisterhood became…
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Help The Forward Investigate Jewish Charities
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday, when charities hop on social media to ask you for money. We need your help to figure out which ones are making good use of your donations, and which ones aren’t. The Forward is asking readers to help us review the tax filings of thousands of American Jewish charities. We’ll teach you…
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Muslims Have Raised Lots Of Money For Jews Recently. Here’s Where It’s Going.
Updated November 26 CelebrateMercy is a small Muslim not-for-profit with only three full-time staffers, but in the past year and a half, it has created crowdfunding campaigns that have raised $400,000 for Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and a Holocaust memorial. The campaigns started in February 2017, after more than 100 headstones were overturned at a Jewish…
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A Digitized Dictionary Illuminates The Talmud, Though Some Prefer To Stay Offline
Gray’s Anatomy. Roget’s Thesaurus. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Some reference books are so famous, they are known simply by the last name of their author. Add to that list Jastrow’s, a dictionary of the Talmud. Long a requirement for Anglophone students of Jewish law, Rabbi Marcus Jastrow’s two-volume work — and its entries for 35,000 words…
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