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102-Year-Old German Woman Gets Doctorate After 77-Year Wait
One day in June, my friend Inge Rapoport received her doctoral degree at a ceremony so newsworthy that the large numbers of journalists stationed in the back of an auditorium at the University of Hamburg Medical School had to be reminded to be quiet. It was an academic ceremony, they were told, not a press…
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Frustration and Sadness at Funeral of West Bank Firebombing Victim
The father of Ali Saad Dawabshe, the 18-month-old Palestinian killed in an arson attack, apparently at the hands of Jewish settlers, died in an Israeli hospital on Saturday morning. Saad Dawabshe, 32, was laid to rest in a funeral in Duma, outside of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. His wife, in critical condition, and…
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Are Egyptian Attitudes Towards Jews Shifting?
(JTA) — It’s been a particularly challenging summer for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Within one week in late June and early July, his attorney general was assassinated in the upscale Cairo suburb of Heliopolis and an Islamic State affiliate launched a two-day siege in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid. But just days…
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Where Do Jews Stand On Iran Deal? Don’t Ask The Polls.
In the battle over the nuclear deal with Iran now consuming the Jewish community, rival parties are strongly convinced they not only have truth on their side, but also the hearts of the Jewish community, and of the American public. “Americans increasingly disapprove of Iran deal,” read an email blast sent from the American Israel…
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The Forward’s Own Jewish Look at Iran in 2015
On Tuesday, August 4, Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance posted the news that several journalistic organizations had been granted visas to visit and report on the Islamic Republic. Among them was the Forward. By then, Larry Cohler-Esses, our assistant managing editor for news, had already arrived back in New York after a seven-day…
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Moving to Israel May Be Making Ethiopian Jews Sick
Yosef Yabarkan was a six-year-old boy in 1999 when he left his village in Ethiopia with his parents and nine sisters. Like tens of thousands of Jews before them, they made the 1,600-mile trek north to Israel. The family left behind a thatched hut surrounded by farm animals in the Tigray region near the Eritrean…
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Lower East Side Charity’s Pleas Were Misleading, Donors Say
Donors to a charity on Manhattan’s Lower East Side are claiming that they have been misled by a Jewish calendar mailed annually to thousands of homes. The calendar, illustrated with images of old bearded rabbis and filled with pleas for donations, is a fundraising appeal that an Orthodox charity called the Home of the Sages…
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79 Years After Nazi Olympics, Jewish Athletes Flood Berlin for Maccabi Games
Melissa Perlman has participated in countless running competitions, but none were as emotional as the half marathon race in Berlin last Sunday. “To come to Germany 70 years after the Holocaust and represent Jews and take a stand for something so much bigger than ourselves was an opportunity I could not turn down,” said the…
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Will Stabbing Attack Tear Apart Israel’s LGBT Community?
When an ultra-Orthodox fanatic named Yishai Schlissel stabbed six people at the Jerusalem Gay Pride march in July — 16-year-old Shira Banki later died of her wounds — Schlissel also fractured Israel’s self-image as a global beacon for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. For years, Israeli diplomats have used their country’s impressive record on…
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Once Untouchable, Rabbi Pinto Faces Prison as Empire Teeters
Sometime in the next few months, assuming judges reject his long-shot appeal, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto will report to an Israeli prison to serve a year behind bars. Such a fate was nearly unimaginable five years ago, when the globetrotting, high-living rabbi splashed onto the scene in New York, rolling with a coterie that was…
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For First Time in a Century, Outsider Tapped to Lead Looksteins’ NY Synagogue
(JTA) – For the first time in about a century, a rabbi from outside the Lookstein family will lead New York’s storied Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. The Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side voted last week to hire as its new senior rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, who for two decades has led the Montreal congregation Tifereth…
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