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What’s Unnerving About Angela Buchdahl? She Talks About God
(Haaretz) — What has made some people nervous about Angela Buchdahl becoming the senior rabbi at Central Synagogue – one of the two largest Reform synagogues in New York and one of the biggest in the United States – is not that she’s the first Asian-American rabbi. It’s not that she’s a woman or, at…
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Controversial Turkish Cleric in The Poconos Challenges Tayyip Erdogan — Split Over Israel
In the aftermath of the attempted coup that rocked Turkey over the weekend, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has pointed a finger of blame at Fethullah Gulen, a onetime ally based in the U.S. Here’s how the Forward profiled the controversial cleric — and explained how his less-confrontational stance toward Israel fed his villification by Turkey’s…
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Poland Poll Reveals Stubborn Anti-Semitism Amid Jewish Revival Hopes
A majority of respondents in a recent Polish national survey believe that there’s a Jewish conspiracy to control international banking and the media. And 90% of these Poles say they’ve never met a Jew. The national study, conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at Warsaw University, found that in Poland, the belief in…
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Century-Old Jewish Mural’s Hidden History in Vermont
An old apartment building in Burlington, Vt. seems like an odd place to find a rare survivor of Lithuanian synagogue art and a relic of American immigrant Yiddishkeit. But the nature of treasures is that they turn up in unexpected places, and Burlington is home to a century-old synagogue mural that is an extraordinary artistic…
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A Stroll Through Jewish Paris
I had a great idea: Take the whole family to Paris for our 50th anniversary. Even better: Make it a Jewish experience, as well. It is always a bit tricky planning grand events for a family when there are youngsters involved. In this case, a pair of teenagers — 17-year-old Corey and 13-year-old Jane, two…
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Eric Fingerhut, New Hillel Chief, Finds Himself in Firing Line on Israel
“We welcome every student. We love them. We embrace them.” So said Eric Fingerhut, who just four months into his job as president and CEO of Hillel International is embroiled in a debate about how far Jewish students can push the limits of Israel discussion from within the Hillel tent. “Any student that doesn’t feel…
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‘Quenelle’ Soccer Star Nicolas Anelka Escapes Punishment by British League — So Far
When West Bromwich Albion striker Nicolas Anelka exposed British soccer fans to the quasi-Nazi salute now sweeping his native France, Jewish groups were confident a strong response was coming. After all, Britain is considered a leader in the fight against xenophobia in sports thanks to its successful education programs and the tough stance of its…
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Jewish Wigmakers Look to Cambodia for Lustrous Sheitel Hair
When Mashie Butman, the wife of the only rabbi in Cambodia, flies home to the United States for a rare visit, one of the things on her to-do list is to take care of her wig. That includes styling the elegantly cropped, light-brown head covering that the young Orthodox woman always wears in public. “Here…
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A Survivor’s Lost Torah Scroll
Things don’t just disappear, I thought to myself, when I learned in 2010 that the Torah my grandmother carried out of war-ravaged Poland wasn’t in the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, where it was supposed to be. I’m a person who misplaces things frequently, and so I have to tell myself this often. It is this…
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Bend the Arc Leader Stosh Cotler Has Radical Streak — and Black Belt
(JTA) — When Stosh Cotler takes over as CEO of Bend the Arc, a Jewish group that fights for immigration reform, workers’ rights and other domestic liberal causes, she will be one of the few women leading a national Jewish group of its size. But Cotler’s gender is not the only thing that sets her…
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David Wildstein Is (Jewish) Man in the Middle of Chris Christie’s Bridgegate Scandal
The man at the center of the scandal that threatens to destroy Chris Christie’s White House ambitions is a hardnosed Jewish ex-blogger who drank the Republican Kool-Aid as a teenager and broke into New Jersey journalism writing under the pseudonym “Wally Edge.” Most of all, David Wildstein, who grew up in the same central Jersey…
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