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After Scandal, Should Claims Conference Shift Focus to Holocaust Education?
(JTA) — A special panel tasked with examining the governance and strategic vision of the Claims Conference is recommending that the organization shift its long-term focus to Holocaust education and remembrance, JTA has learned. The panel was appointed last year following a scandal involving the Claims Conference’s failure to detect a $57 million fraud scheme…
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Ayelet Galena’s Parents Open Up About Tricky Decision To Have Another Child
(JTA) — Even before their daughter, Ayelet Galena, was diagnosed with a rare bone marrow disease called dyskeratosis congenita around her first birthday, parents Hindy Poupko and Seth Galena knew they wanted to have more children. But once the diagnosis arrived, the couple had a dilemma: There was a fair chance their next child would…
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Holocaust Study Debunks Myth of ‘Ungrateful Jew’
(Haaretz) — In Poland, they were known as the ungrateful Jews. These were Jews who survived the Holocaust because of the selfless acts of thousands of Polish rescuers who put their lives on the line for them but were never properly thanked. As soon as the war was over, these Jews headed out to greener pastures…
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Yeshiva U. Board’s Culture of Risk-Taking Led to $500M Meltdown
A culture of high risk-taking among Yeshiva University trustees resulted in Y.U.’s investment portfolio losing more than $500 million in the 2008 financial crisis, according to a two-year investigation by TakePart in association with The Jewish Channel. The investigation also found that since the crisis, Y.U. has spent down reserves and borrowed heavily even as…
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Do I Really Have To Act All Jewish for His Mother?
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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A Six-Year-Old Orthodox Boy and His Barbie Dolls
The last time I took care of Hanina, the 6-year-old I baby-sit, we played Salon, a game in which Hanina’s Barbies visit the salon, otherwise known as the second-floor bathroom, and we peel off their clothes, do their hair, then dress them up. You may wonder what a 6-year-old boy is doing with Barbies in…
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A Handful of Jewish Republicans Runs Far to the Right
As establishment Jewish conservatives sat in stunned silence recently, sitting shiva over the defeat of Republican congressional leader Eric Cantor, a younger cohort of Republican Jews were jockeying vigorously to fill the vacuum he left as Congress’s only Jewish Republican. With months to go until the 2014 congressional elections, it is not clear whether any…
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Holocaust Museum Urges Ukraine To Examine Its History of Anti-Semitism
As Ukraine grapples with political upheaval and threats to its territorial integrity, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is confronting the country’s post-revolution government with another, no less difficult challenge: contending with its past treatment of Jews. The museum has urged the new government in Kiev to set up an international commission to examine its…
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Benjamin Netanyahu Blames Terrorists for Kidnapping 3 West Bank Teens
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed terrorists for kidnapping three Israeli teenagers on the West Bank Saturday — and called the crime the result of the recent Palestinian unity agreement. “Our boys were kidnapped by a terrorist organization,” Netanyahu said in a terse televised statement. The premier said the unity deal between Fatah…
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A Daughter’s Love for Jewish Dad — and Soccer — Spans Generations
My father and I will watch every game that the United States plays in the World Cup that starts this weekend. We live on opposite sides of the world – he is in Florida and I am in Australia—but today’s video technology will allow us to cheer the team on together. My father’s love for…
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Jewish ‘Fanaticos’ Mix Love of Soccer and Faith at World Cup
The eyes of the world are focused on the soccer fields of Brazil, but a group of Argentinian Jews here has a slightly different focus. For them, the World Cup is an excuse to make a three-day, 1,700-mile pilgrimage to sites of both soccer and cultural significance. Mariano Schlez, Maxi Klein and Damian Beker decided…
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