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Don’t Fry Your Bacon Near My Kosher Eggs
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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Perelman Day School Sparks Debate With Move To Oust Teachers Union
A labor union battle raging at a Philadelphia Jewish day school has highlighted the scarcity of collective bargaining in the Jewish education system and the use of religious exemptions to ban union contracts. Perelman Jewish Day School, with 300 kindergarten to fifth-grade students on two Philadelphia-area campuses, announced on March 24 its decision to unilaterally…
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Eric Cantor Agrees To Meet Jewish Delegation on Immigration
Under mounting pressure on immigration, Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will meet with Jewish advocates for reform on Thursday. Cantor, who is viewed by immigration activists as holding the key for a possible vote on immigration reform, has thus far turned down requests from advocates to meet and has not engaged with Jewish groups…
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Jonathan Pollard Release Proposal Angers U.S. Intelligence
A U.S. proposal to consider freeing a jailed Israeli spy caught many American intelligence officials off-guard and will face stiff opposition if the Obama administration decides to go ahead with it in a bid to salvage Middle East peace talks, officials said. Negotiations over the fate of Jonathan Pollard, a former naval intelligence analyst serving…
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Kosher Butchers Take Center Stage in Obamacare Supreme Court Debate
(JTA) — For 20 or so minutes last week, the issue of religious freedom was cast as a struggle between working women and Muslim and Jewish butchers. The pointed questions posed March 25 to the Obama administration’s chief lawyer by three U.S. Supreme Court justices got to the heart of whether businesses have the same…
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Atlanta Hawks Visit Holocaust Museum in Washington
NBA player Al Horford took out his phone as he left the U.S. Holocaust Museum on Friday and Tweeted: “Life changing experience.” It was an emotional afternoon for players and staff members of the Atlanta Hawks who arrived in Washington a day before their scheduled game with the Wizards and hustled from the airport directly…
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Was Daniel’s ‘River of Fire’ Really the Milky Way
A reader signing his or her name as “ASP” asks: “In her book ‘The Passover Seder,’ Ruth Gruber Fredman wrote that the galaxy is called seder or ‘order’ in Hebrew. Is this true?” Exactly what Ruth Gruber Fredman wrote in her book, I don’t know, but seder, while it does mean “order” in Hebrew, does…
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A Visit To Germany Reawakens Fears of an Ultra-Orthodox Childhood
On my first trip to Germany, as I traveled to the town where a friend of mine lives, everything reminded me of the Holocaust. The pink-cheeked travelers in my train car seemed to morph into Nazis. T-shirts shimmered into gray-green uniforms. Cell phones looked like guns. As we rolled through emerald fields, I found myself…
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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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