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My Evening at the PLO’s Christmas Party (No Mistletoe in Sight!)
For foreign journalists in the Holy Land, the festive season usually arrives with an interesting missive: an email invitation to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s annual Christmas dinner. The event is an opportunity for Saeb Erekat, the secretary general of the PLO, to spread Christmas cheer, toast the New Year, and make predictions about 2016 over…
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Haunting Photos Reveal Jewish Mom’s Metro-North Crash Tragedy
A trove of federal investigatory documents and eerie photos from February’s deadly collision between a New York commuter train and an SUV driven by suburban Jewish mom Ellen Brody still can’t answer why she appeared not to realize that she was in mortal danger. The National Transportation Safety Board made its file public Wednesday and…
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Poland Turns Hard to Right — and Jews Wind Up in Crosshairs
When some 50,000 people turned out in Warsaw recently to protest a plan by Poland’s ruling party to pack the nation’s constitutional court, the hard right-wing political faction responded quickly with a counter-demonstration of its own. Its counter-protest featured, among other things, a placard that mocked those claiming to defend democracy as “the committee to…
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Congress Passes Bill Targeting Hezbollah’s Finances
Legislation targeting the financing of Hezbollah passed both houses of Congress. The House of Representatives unanimously approved the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 on Wednesday. President Barack Obama is expected to sign it into law. The act directs the president to prohibit foreign banks from doing business with the Shiite militant group. The…
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Fake Brooklyn Charity Admits Israel ‘Research Lab’ Was Sham
Until early last year, the website of a Brooklyn-based charity called the National Children’s Leukemia Foundation boasted that the organization had its own “biomedical cancer research center” where “leading scientists” were working on cancer treatments. A PowerPoint slide that the group’s founder, Zvi Shor, used in a presentation showed an office building where the research…
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Sheldon Adelson Identified as Buyer of Las Vegas Newspaper
Sheldon Adelson is the mystery purchaser of Nevada’s largest newspaper, according to a report from Fortune magazine. The Las Vegas Review-Journal was purchased for $140 million in early December by a limited liability corporation that went to unusual lengths to shield the identity of its owner. The strange transaction drew attention from media watchers and…
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Democratic Jewish Group Downsizes as GOP Counterpart Gains Cash and Influence
In this year’s Forward salary survey, as in previous years, the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition is one of the top-paid CEOs in the Jewish world. But for the first time, his Democratic counterpart doesn’t appear at all. That’s because, for the first time, RJC executive director Matthew Brooks has no Democratic counterpart. The…
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2 Palestinians Accused of Berlin Israel Embassy Terror Plot
Two young men of Palestinian descent are on trial in Germany for planning to bomb the Israeli embassy in Berlin or other Israeli targets, a criminal court spokesman said on Wednesday. The two men, both aged 21, were arrested in July and appeared in court on Tuesday, where they were charged with planning a violent…
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It Still Pays to Be a Man — and Work in Cleveland
The seventh annual Forward survey of the salaries of Jewish nonprofit executives shows that it pays to be a man, run a large organization, work for Republicans, be involved in Israel advocacy and be posted in Cleveland. Women leaders of Jewish charities continued to suffer discrimination in position and pay. Of the 71 large federations,…
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Jews With Asian Heritage Pose Growing Identity Challenge to Jewish Establishment
Since their wedding in May 2012, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have become the unofficial representatives of Jewish- and Asian-American couples in the United States. Earlier this month they were prominently featured around the world hugging their firstborn daughter Max. Previous stories revolved around Hannukah celebrations at the couple’s home and…
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How Much Are Jewish Non-Profit Leaders Making?
Transparency. Conversation. Fairness. Those are the aims of the Forward’s salary survey, now published for the seventh year. We shine a light on the gender composition and compensation of our top national not-for-profit leaders in the hopes that it will spur serious conversation about creating a fairer workplace in the Jewish community and beyond. If…
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