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Conservatives Break Jewish Silence To Denounce Bibi’s Anti-Arab Election Scare Tactic
Benjamin Netanyahu’s election day Facebook warning to his supporters that Arab voters are “coming out in droves to the polling stations” drew global outrage. All seemed to be incensed by the comment, including the White House that described Netanyahu’s remarks as “cynical election day tactics.” But the wall-to-wall condemnation somehow skipped the Jewish community. As…
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Cash-Strapped Palestinians Adopt Austerity Budget
Gripped by financial crisis, the Palestinian government said on Tuesday it was putting an emergency budget in place for 2015 due to the absence of pledged international aid and Israel withholding its tax revenues. “The general budget law for 2015 comes amid complicated and tough conditions, as the treasury is suffering a choking financial crisis,”…
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FEGS Cascading Fiscal Woes Clear Months Before Group Rang the Alarm
Just as a sneeze can set off an avalanche, and the murder of an archduke can spark a world war, the final collapse of one of the country’s largest Jewish charities may have been propelled by a letter from a state Medicaid regulator. New documents obtained by the Forward show that the signs of trouble…
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My Big Fat Irish Bar Mitzvah
I made my first visit to Ireland more than 30 years ago. When I had married John a few months earlier, I had also wed his Celtic heritage, and was no longer a Goldberg, in name at least. My “Jewishness” became something that it was detected by no one but me. We went to a…
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‘Killed ‘Em All’ Mogul Robert Durst Agrees to Extradition
(Reuters) — Robert Durst, caught on audiotape during the filming of a documentary saying he “killed them all,” is prepared to go to California to face a murder charge in the 2000 death of a longtime friend, an attorney for the New York real estate scion said on Monday. The subject of a six-part HBO…
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Want To Give to Jewish Charities? Don’t Do It Over the Phone.
Your favorite Jewish charity calls you on the phone. You haven’t renewed your membership, you’re told. What’s your credit card number, again? You might want to think twice before giving it. Jewish charities handed over a huge portion of the money they raised in telemarketing campaigns in New York in 2013 to for-profit telemarketing contractors,…
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Lessons of Crime and Punishment in New Square Yeshiva
A young father in the insular Skverer sect, Shulem Deen took the one job available to him: teacher. In an exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, “All Who Go Do Not Return,” which chronicles his painful journey from 18-year-old newlywed to being expelled from New Square as a heretic, he recounts how the need to…
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Half-Jewish Ain’t the Whole Megillah for Her
The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in which a broad range of columnists will address the real life issues faced by interfaith couples and families. Read the discussion and vote below for what you think is the best response to this particular quandary. You can email your own questions, which will remain…
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Israel Left-Center Opposition Surges to Lead as Election Nears
Israel’s center-left opposition is poised for an upset victory in national elections next week, with the last opinion polls before the March 17 vote giving it a solid lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party. Polls in two of Israel’s leading newspapers predicted the Zionist Union would secure 25 or 26 seats in the 120-seat…
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Russian Jewish Leader Slams Ukraine Moguls in Flap Over World War II Nazi Ally
A former leader of Russian Jews said he would like to hang prominent Ukrainian Jews “until they stop breathing” as a feud deepens over their refusal to denounce a onetime Nazi ally during World War II. Yevgeny Satanovsky, who served as a president of the Russian Jewish Congress in the years 2004 and 2005, made…
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Should More Ashkenazi Jews Get Tested for Cancer-Causing BRCA Gene Mutations?
A new initiative offering subsidized screening for cancer-causing mutations in Ashkenazi Jews — including those with no family history of cancer — appears to be splitting cancer specialists. The BRCA community study, sponsored by the Program for Jewish Genetic Health, began accepting applicants in January from Ashkenazi women and men age 25 and older. Led…
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