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Transgender Jews; Giving Up on Syria; Lipa Schmeltzer
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward deputy culture editor, Naomi Zeveloff, to discuss the our ongoing series about transgender Jews and the response so far. Then, opinion editor Gal Beckerman drops by to discuss what the US is and isn’t doing about Syria. Finally, we check back in…
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When a Name Screams ‘I’m Jewish!’
It’s an issue that Mila Kunis, Jonah Hill and Lena Dunham never had to deal with, but Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Goldblum and Sarah Silverman have: an obviously Jewish last name. A name that tells people who don’t know you from Adam (Sandler) that either you share something deep in common with them or you’re a…
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Jack Hidary’s Longshot Bid for New York Mayor Divides Syrian Jews
Jack Hidary, a well-connected tech millionaire, thinks he has a shot at being elected mayor of New York City. But his dark horse quest may tear Brooklyn’s Syrian Jewish community in two. Hidary, who announced his candidacy in a respectfully reported New York Times story on July 16, is a scion of one of New…
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Boca Raton Shul, Rocked by Y.U. Scandal, Plans New Approach to Accused Abusers
A Florida synagogue rocked by allegations that a long-time congregant abused boys decades ago in New York is set to reexamine how it deals with members accused of abuse. Rabbi Efrem Goldberg told congregants of the Boca Raton Synagogue in a July 24 email: “The last few weeks have been extremely challenging as our community…
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Journalist Henri Alleg, Warned of Torture Dangers, Dies at 91
After 9/11, when the legitimacy of waterboarding and other torture methods during interrogations became a topic of fierce media debate, the French Jewish journalist Henri Alleg, who died July 17 at age 91, seemed uncannily prescient. Alleg, a newspaper editor in Algeria in the 1950s, was imprisoned and tortured by French authorities for supporting Algerian…
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When Jewish Transgender Teens Come Out of Closet, Many Leave Camp Behind
At summer camp, sneaking into the boys side or the girls side is as classic an activity as roasting marshmallows. But what if the side you were assigned isn’t where you think you belong? Or what if you don’t fit into either side? Jewish summer camp — with its gender-segregated bunks, bathrooms, activities and rituals,…
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What’s With Jewish Politicians and Sex Scandals?
(JTA) — The guy with the socks up. The guy with the pants down. The guy with the headlocks. The guy who tweets and deletes. What is it with these male politicos? And why are they all Jewish? The cloistered community that is Washington’s Jewish elite collectively choked a little Saturday morning as it progressed…
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Eying Orthodox Vote, New York Mayor Candidates Back Aid to Religious Schools
New York City’s leading Democratic mayoral candidates are pledging to back taxpayer aid to private religious schools in a bid to draw Orthodox Jewish support. Christine Quinn and Anthony Weiner, who lead in the Democratic mayoral polls, both spoke in favor of city aid to for private schools at separate campaign events in early July….
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Jerusalem Gets Very Different Kind of Kabbalat Shabbat
The bar is doling out drinks as fast as it can manage. A man at the front recites Kaddish while the mixed-gender congregation slouches, sipping beer, eating snacks, talking on cell phones. It sounds like anarchy to even rabbis with the rowdiest congregations. But here, there’s consensus that this represents a renaissance for the liturgy…
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Books Naftali Herts Kon’s Works Wrenched Out of Poland’s Clutches
On both occasions that the KGB arrested the Yiddish writer and poet Naftali Herts Kon, it burned his writings. When Kon escaped from the Soviet Union to Poland in 1959, he thought everything would be different — but it wasn’t. When the Polish Communists arrested Kon in 1960, they simply confiscated his writings and refused…
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Polish Kosher Slaughter Ban Has Jews Feeling Uneasy
(JTA) — In their Krakow home, Anna Makowka Kwapisiewicz and her husband, Piotr, skim through an online article about Poland’s recent ban on kosher slaughter. What they find even more disturbing than the actual news are the comments posted by other readers. Hundreds of comments calling on Jews to leave Poland have appeared beneath news…
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