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Like Life Insurance for an Ultra-Orthodox Community — But Not Quite
When a parent of young children dies in ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, local activists take up a collection. They post fliers on the street, featuring heartrending images of the orphans; host events in living rooms and local banquet halls, and try to cobble together a nest egg to keep the family fed and marriageable. Or at least…
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Is Operation Protective Edge a Mistake in Translation?
You all know those children’s puzzles in which you have to look at a picture and identify the details that are wrong. Those of you who can read some Hebrew might try this one from the August 7 New York Times. On its op-ed page is a cartoon essay by the Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based illustrator Koren…
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For Jews Displaced By Fighting in Ukraine, Israel Is The Promised Land
(JTA) — Each time he dispatches a car into Lugansk, Rabbi Shalom Gopin readies himself for hours of anxious anticipation. The scene of brutal urban warfare between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists, this eastern Ukrainian city now has no regular power supply, running water or cell phone reception. Mortar rounds can fall without warning. Much of…
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Leonard Fein, My King of the Jews
I feel a little like the widow but of course I am not. Leibel had two former wives and I was neither of them. But Leonard Fein and I had an enduring romance, the chastest of romances, and it lasted from the day I met him until last night when he died. We met —…
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Starbucks Doesn’t Mix Coffee With Politics
It took only a few hundred online activists to bring coffee shop giant Starbucks to denounce as “unequivocally false” claims that the company and its founder support Israel financially. The chain’s immediate disavowal of ties to the Jewish state, issued in a public statement on August 5, could be seen as a victory for the…
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Dutch Justice Ministry Employees Claims ISIS is a Zionist Conspiracy
An employee of the Dutch Justice Ministry said the jihadist group ISIS was created by Zionists seeking to give Islam a bad reputation. Yasmina Haifi, a project leader at the ministry’s National Cyber Security Center, made the assertion Wednesday on Twitter, the De Telegraaf daily reported. “ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. It’s part…
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Two Lawsuits Target Embattled Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto and Top Aide
Last February, a young Israeli businessman visiting New York got a phone call warning him to return to Israel right away. The caller informed Tomer Shohat that he was no longer under the protection of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, according to court papers that Shohat has filed in New York State Supreme Court. Pinto is…
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My Son’s Curious About God and My Wife Doesn’t Believe
The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in which a a broad range of columnists will address the real life issues faced by interfaith couples and families. Join the discussion by commenting on this post, sharing it on Facebook or following the Forward on Twitter. And keep the questions coming. You can email…
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German Newspaper Publishes Faces of Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gaza
Germany’s most widely read daily newspaper, Bild Zeitung, published the faces of the 64 Israeli soldiers killed in the current conflict in Gaza. Together with short biographies of a few soldiers, the images appeared in the Monday edition of the paper under the headline “Israel’s War Against the Hamas Terrorists: Faces of the fallen.” Among…
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Peace Talks ‘Difficult,’ Even As Truce Holds Through Second Day
Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Gaza militants are “difficult”, Palestinian delegates said on Tuesday, while an Israeli official said no progress had been made so far. As a 72-hour ceasefire held for a second day, Palestinian negotiators began talks with Egyptian intelligence after a meeting on Monday that lasted nine hours….
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Professor Irwin Corey, ‘World’s Foremost Authority,’ Going Strong at 100
It is the view of “Professor” Irwin Corey — the self-described “World’s Foremost Authority” on practically anything — that if a man lives to be 100, he has the right to recite a limerick about farting at his birthday party, even if it’s inside a synagogue. So that’s what happened July 29, when Corey, frail…
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