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Orthodox Day School Upset at Raunchy 12-Year-Old Comic Josh Orlian
(JTA) — Josh Orlian cracked up the judges on “America’s Got Talent,” but his Orthodox day school wasn’t laughing. The 12-year-old kippah-wearing comic made his national television debut with a raunchy routine packed with sexual innuendo. The show’s celebrity judges and studio audience seemed both stunned and entertained by the pre-bar-mitzvah-age cut-up’s dirty jokes. While…
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More Than Half of NYC Holocaust Survivors Living in Poverty Despite Reparations
Ninety-year-old Sonia Anger survived the Nazis by fleeing Romania after the Germans invaded in 1941 and taking refuge in the Ural Mountains. Today, the brown-haired, 5-foot-6-inch widow struggles to survive in New York City on a monthly Social Security check of $1,130, or $14,000 a year. “I’m sweeping the floor, and have little to eat,…
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Why Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Descended From Khazars — and What It Means
(Haaretz) — The claim that today’s Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars who converted in the Middle Ages is a myth, according to new research by a Hebrew University historian. The Khazar thesis gained global prominence when Prof. Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University published “The Invention of the Jewish People” in 2008. In that…
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Will Janet Yellen Be Bomb-Thrower at Federal Reserve?
(Reuters) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen wants to see U.S. wages climb at a much brisker clip to boost consumer spending and help workers recoup ground they lost in the last recession, but she’ll have to fend off policymakers who fear that could cause inflation to surge. As she seeks to maintain a consensus…
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How World War I Shaped Jewish Politics and Identity
When World War I broke out 100 years ago this summer, Forverts Editor Abraham Cahan predicted “a frightful bloodletting.” Under the stark headline “Milkhome” (War), Cahan wrote: “War means a retreat backwards, a return to darkness.” June 28 will mark the centennial of the spark that ignited that war: the assassination of the Austrian archduke,…
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Heir to The Austrian Throne And His Wife Are Shot
The imperial couple was on a tour of the Bosnian province that Austria had won from Turkey six years earlier. A young Serbian student was the shooter, believing that province must be Serbian. A second youth threw a bomb on the couple hours prior to the shooting. They are proud of their attack. Major Upheaval…
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This Is Not a War, But a Series of Pogroms
I’ve just returned to Berlin from a journey to Lodz and several other cities in Poland that are currently in German hands. The trip was eventful. I was in the apex of the area where Russian barbarians were raging not long ago and that currently breathes freely under German rule. Earlier I sought out the…
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Zionism’s Victory and the Socialist Enlightenment of the Masses
If such news — that the land of Israel is going to be given to the Jews, had come 50 years ago, it would have made a totally different impression on the Jewish masses than it is making today. It would then have had a similar impact as the coming of the Messiah as it…
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Czar Nicholas II Writes a Letter to the Forverts’ Bintel Brief
This letter was received by one of our readers, Mr. Pinkus. The letter was written in Russian and translated by B. Kovner into Galician Yiddish. Here is the letter: Dear and very beloved editor of the Forverts! As I have heard that you are a kind soul with a soft heart, and that you rescue…
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Letters from War-Torn Europe
April 7, 1915 From Vilna a letter was posted to Mr. Arbeiter of 932 North 2nd What can I tell you about Vilna, whatever it is will only be one trop in a sea of great troubles and misfortunes that this war has brought upon us. The most awful thing occurred in Vilna—with a young…
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The Role Jews Play in the War in Facts and Figures
Jews play no small role in the current war. In the armies and navies fighting on land and sea a large number of Jews can be found. The following list enumerates the number of Jewish soldiers in the various European regular armies: Russia: 250,000 Germany: 6,150 Austria: 52,000 France: 10,000 Bulgaria: 4,500 Italy: 2,000 Holland:…
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