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When Leo Frank Was Lynched a Century Ago
“Leo M. Frank Kidnapped and Lynched.” That’s how readers of the Yiddish Forverts learned on August 17, 1915, of the shocking murder of Leo Frank. Frank’s arrest and trial two years previously in Atlanta on charges of rape and murder gripped America’s Jewish community. It gripped the Forverts too. This newspaper’s founding editor, Abraham Cahan,…
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In an Education Reform Battlefield, Hebrew Charters Are at the Forefront
In a country where residential ZIP codes have long dictated public school zoning, the education reform movement in recent years has also brought to the forefront a notion of school choice in which families can decide where to send their children to school on public dollars, regardless of where they live. Charter schools, which are…
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Meet The Jewish Politician Calling For Private School Security Legislation
Just in time for back-to-school this fall, a New York politician is trying to pass a bill that would require Mayor Bill de Blasio to fund the same security in private schools that public schools have access to already. City Councilman David Greenfield sponsored the bill, known as Intro 65, to address what he saw…
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English Teachers Go to Israel To Help Low-Income Kids, Learn a Lesson or Two
“Fell in love” is how a handful of teachers, largely from the United States and the United Kingdom, describe their first-time experience in Israel. That love is what has brought them back to the Holy Land summer after summer — not for vacation, but to educate hundreds of Israeli children, regardless of religion or socioeconomics….
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Is Hebrew a Language To Bind Us, or To Bore Us?
It’s common for young Jews to study Hebrew until the age of 13 — and then never interact with the language again. Hebrew school students learn the alphabet, but often have little understanding of what the prayers mean. Having a conversation in modern Hebrew is a long shot. This phenomenon raises questions about the priorities…
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How Poetry, Prison and a Holocaust Book Are Changing Ex-Offenders’ Lives
“Listen closely. Can you hear the heels of the ruby red shoes clicking?” Dennis Francis, a formerly incarcerated inmate turned poet, asked a packed, silent classroom in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. “There’s no place like homeless shelters, there’s no place like homeless shelters.” It was a Wednesday afternoon at the The Fortune…
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An Island Haven for Turkey’s Jews
I’m pretty sure I’ve missed a turn on the winding, bougainvillea-filled backstreets of Buyukada, an idyllic island about an hour’s ferry ride from Istanbul. A horse-drawn carriage filled with vacationers — some wearing headscarves — whips by. Suddenly, an older man in an immaculately pressed suit and silk tie appears in front of me. Next,…
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Is Israel Cracking Open Door to Sex Selection?
In the mid 2000s, an Orthodox Jewish couple in Israel sought to conceive a child with the help of a sperm donor. But they had one important caveat: it had to be a girl. The Orthodox husband was a Kohen, a priestly designation that has been passed down from father to son since biblical times….
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74 Years After Terezin, This Survivor Is Still Drawing What She Sees
Helga Weiss-Hoskova, a short woman with closely cropped gray hair and sparkling blue eyes, stood in the doorway of her fourth-floor walkup in Prague. “I climb these stairs once or twice each day,” she said as my wife and I, out of breath, approached the fourth-floor landing. The 85-year-old artist and Holocaust survivor has received…
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For Orthodox, Addiction Is Unspoken Problem
On the surface, Asher Ehrman had a great childhood in Monsey, New York. Growing up in an Orthodox family, his parents loved him and his sister. It had its ups and downs, but until he was about 13 or 14, he really couldn’t complain. But then he came home wearing a blue shirt instead of…
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Breast Cancer Panel May Force Women To Pay for Mammography Screenings
A coalition of politicians from both sides of the aisle are deeply concerned about new recommendations for breast cancer screening. They, along with patient advocates, say the new guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force will fail to protect populations with a hereditary predisposition, including Ashkenazim, one of the groups at higher risk…
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