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Abbe Lowell Is on a Legal Mission
From representing the Democrats in Bill Clinton’s 1999 impeachment hearings to defending New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez against recent corruption charges, Abbe Lowell boasts a client portfolio that places him snugly within the Beltway’s elite lawyer club. But in recent years the Jewish white-collar criminal defense attorney has taken on an anti-establishment cause. In courts…
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Warsaw Ghetto Memorial to Righteous Suffers New Setback as Design Is Tossed
A dispute over designs is the latest roadblock to hit a controversial Holocaust memorial planned for the site of the Warsaw Ghetto that would honor so so-called Righteous Gentiles who rescued Jews. In the latest twist on the hotly disputed project, the New York philanthropist who launched it has rejected the choice of plans made…
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After Baltimore Looting, One Jewish-Owned Business Asks: What’s Next?
Not even a shard of glass was visible on the sidewalk outside 311 N. Exeter St. in downtown Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, no sign of the havoc that struck two nights earlier, when rioters had their way here just as in other parts of this city. But across the doorway and in the three-story brick…
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Hundreds Protest Police Brutality Against Blacks — in Israel
Hundreds of Ethiopian-Israelis are now protesting in front of Israel’s national police headquarters in Jerusalem, following the surfacing of showing two police officers, one of whom was a volunteer, punching and tackling an Ethiopian-Israeli male soldier—while in his army uniform—for no apparent reason. The protesters have blocked a section of route 1 in the capital,…
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Princeton Is ‘Quiet Ivy’ No More as Raucous Israel Debate Roils Campus
Princeton University has long been known as the “conservative Ivy.” It’s a reference that encompasses not just the school’s centrist political image when compared with Ivy League universities like Harvard or Brown, but also its bucolic atmosphere and generally quiescent student body. But Princeton’s cultivated image of ivory tower calm seemed to vanish like a…
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Geeky Pot Testing Pioneers Seek To Leverage Colorado’s Jewish Marijuana Connection
(JTA) — Seth Wong’s place of work is heavily cluttered, with shelves loaded with moldy bagels, stale cake and fermenting carrots. There’s a not-so-faint smell of urine in the air. But if all goes according to plan for Wong and his new business partner, JJ Slatkin, their new office soon will have something else in abundance:…
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Amid Baltimore Violence, Jews Plead for Calm — and Justice
Joe Parker looked on with relatives and neighbors Tuesday as a diverse crowd grew outside the Amazing Grace Lutheran Church on his block in Baltimore’s southeast side. The rally, one of many small gatherings for peace and unity among Baltimore’s disparate communities, took place just a day after hundreds of rioters and looters stormed through…
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Kentucky Derby Horse Gives Arnold Zetcher a Chance To Dream
Arnold Zetcher bought his first racehorse fifteen years ago, back when he was a CEO. His employees at Talbots, the women’s clothing retailer, were glad he finally had a hobby. They “liked that there was another outlet,” Zetcher said. On May 2, Zetcher’s current prize, a three-year-old colt named Firing Line, will compete in the…
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$20M Gift Set To Transform Only Jewish Day School in Washington D.C.
A huge donation is about to transform the only Jewish day school in the nation’s capital. The Jewish Primary Day School announced Monday evening it had just received a $20 million gift from two donors, which will allow the school, currently serving students in elementary school grades, to build a middle school. Behind the donation,…
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U. Penn Hillel Hosts Event With ‘Palestine’ Group — But Was It Against The Rules?
An event at the University of Pennsylvania Hillel co-sponsored by a group that backs boycotting Israel took place recently with no interference despite its challenge to the plain language of Hillel International’s guidelines. The April 26 event featured Avraham Burg, who is a former speaker of the Knesset and served as chairman of the Jewish…
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This Portuguese Diplomat Was Disgraced For Saving Jews. Now, He’s Getting His Due.
On a sunny Sunday morning in late April, the family of an unheralded hero diplomat during the Holocaust took one more step forward in their effort to rehabilitate his ruined name. Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese envoy who saved 30,000 people during World War II — 10,000 of them Jewish — was consigned to…
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