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10 Jewish Baseball Stars To Watch in 2014
(JTA) — In the biblical tradition of lingering in the desert en route to the Promised Land, Major League Baseball teams are packing up and embarking on their exodus from Arizona (and Florida) spring training sites to begin the new season. Rosters won’t be finalized until this weekend, but 10 Jewish players are likely to…
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Perelman Day School Dumps Teachers Union
A Jewish day school in Philadelphia decided to discontinue employing its teachers through a union contract, forcing the staff to give up collective bargaining and other union benefits. The Perelman Jewish Day School informed its 55 teachers on Monday night that once their union contract expires this summer, it will not be renewed. The school’s…
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Jews in Ukraine and Russia Are Divided as Nations Confront One Another
Jews in Russia and Ukraine are divided as the two nations teeter on the brink of war. That’s according to the director general of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, who was in New York to drum up support from American Jewish leaders. Dolinsky said that Ukrainian Jews were dismayed recently to see Russia’s…
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Vladimir Putin’s 93-Year-Old Jewish German Teacher Remembers When
(JTA) — When Mina Yuditskaya describes Vladimir Putin, circa 1969, and Vladmir Putin, circa 2005, it’s as if she’s talking about two different people. One is a quiet, studious boy, clearly smart and diligent, but not loud or remarkable in any way. The other is the charismatic leader of Russia, a man able to invite…
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His Hasidic Toy Story
Samuel Lipschitz, 27, grinned as a pint-sized red smart car pulled up next to the curb outside his toy store on Lee Avenue in Brooklyn. Lacquered onto the side of the car was a children’s cartoon character: a freckled, round-faced boy with curly brown peyes, or sidelocks, and a yarmulke. “What Walt Disney did to…
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Rabbi Performs Controversial Metzitzah B’Peh Circumcision Rite — Law or No
After cutting off the infant’s foreskin, Rabbi Avrohom Cohn leaned down toward the baby boy who was cradled on a white pillow atop his grandfather’s knee. Standing fully over the child, with his back to the dozens of immaculately dressed guests at the Syrian Jewish gathering in Brooklyn, it was impossible to see what Cohn…
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Winnipeg Jewish Community Seeks New Blood — With Mixed Results
(JTA) — When the leaders of Winnipeg’s Jewish federation sat down 13 years ago to try to figure out a way to reverse the community’s decline, they came up with a novel idea: recruit Jews from overseas. The idea was pretty straightforward. Capitalizing on the pro-immigration policies of their home province of Manitoba, the Winnipeg…
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Philadelphia Feud Erupts Over Federation Embrace of Anti-J Street Film
J Street, the dovish Israel lobby that has struggled for acceptance in the wider Jewish community, is facing its greatest challenge yet. In the coming weeks, the Jewish establishment’s most prominent gatekeepers will vote on whether J Street can come under the proverbial communal tent. The odds of success for J Street’s bid to join…
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Yeshiva U. Faces Long Fight To Reverse Fiscal Rot
Yeshiva University’s financial turnaround will take years even if the school can correct longstanding fiscal mismanagement by its own leadership, according to a stark report from Moody’s Investor Services. The ratings agency released the report on March 25 to explain the “rapid deterioration” of Y.U.’s credit rating, which has plunged from a high investment grade…
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Is Tikkun Olam Enough to Counter Jesus?
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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Jewish Oligarch Vadim Rabinovich Announces Run for Ukraine President
The brash Ukrainian Jewish oligarch Vadim Rabinovich has announced that he will run for the presidency of Ukraine, according to the Interfax news agency. Rabinovich, president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress and founder of the European Jewish Parliament, said that he was running to “destroy the myth about anti-Semitism in Ukraine.” In recent months, Russian…
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