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Nicholas Lemann Talks About Journalism’s Hazy Future
Throughout his 10-year tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, Nicholas Lemann fielded calls on a daily basis from people asking about the “crisis” in journalism and what he intended to do about it. It was a crisis he was all too familiar with. As dean, he navigated young journalists…
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John Ruskay Announces Resignation, Steered Federation Through Fiscal Crisis
John Ruskay will resign as head of the UJA-Federation of New York in mid-2014, leaving a position he has held since 1999. UJA-Federation, which calls itself the largest Jewish philanthropic organization in the world, had revenue of $234 million in 2011. The organization said that it had raised $2.7 billion over the course of Ruskay’s…
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Forward Editor and Reporter Scoop Major Awards
The Forward has won two prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Awards, the national awards for excellence given by the Society of Professional Journalists. Larry Cohler-Esses won for nondeadline reporting in a nondaily publication for his exclusive interview in April 2012 with Mousa Abu Marzook, Hamas’s second-highest-ranking official. And in the category of investigative reporting at a…
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Slain Boston Bomb Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Eyed in Jewish Triple Murder
Police in a Boston suburb are investigating whether slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in the unsolved murders of his close friend and two other men, one of whom was a Brandeis University graduate and the other a devout Jew. Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police, was a close…
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Half of Polish Students Don’t Want Jewish Neighbor
Forty-four percent of Warsaw high school students don’t want a Jewish neighbor. This is one of the findings in a new poll of 1,250 students in 20 Warsaw high schools. The poll was conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at Warsaw University. It’s findings came April 16, just days before the commemoration of…
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Canada’s Flagship Jewish Newspaper Is Folding
Canada’s flagship Jewish newspaper, The Canadian Jewish News, is folding. The newspaper, which has a circulation of approximately 40,000, announced Monday that its final print edition will be June 20. The closure will mean the loss of about 50 jobs. “I never dreamed that I would be writing this,” CJN President Donald Carr wrote on…
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Sharansky Gets Green Light from Netanyahu on Western Wall Expansion
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky was given a green light by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue his plan for a permanent egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. Netanyahu told Sharansky to continue reviewing the situation with Zvi Hauser, the director general of the Prime Minister’s Office, and Yaakov Amidror, Netanyahu’s national security…
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Orthodox Town of Lakewood Grabs Bigger Computer Subsidy Than Poorest Cities
A federally backed program subsidizing Internet access for low-income students has committed more money to schools in the heavily Orthodox Jewish town of Lakewood, N.J. in recent years than to schools in any other municipality in the entire state. Yet after several years of participating in the E-Rate subsidy program, Lakewood’s schools report having far…
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Orthodox Slumlords and Their Tenants
I am a Jewish tenant organizer. This is not so unusual. Jews have been organizing ourselves and others since we left the Old World for New York City’s slums. We created labor unions when we lived in tenements on the Lower East Side, and we continue to organize today, often in partnership with other communities,…
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In Boston’s Heavily Jewish Suburbs, Shock and Re-Sparked Memories
Everything was strange in Boston’s heavily Jewish suburbs on Friday, as it was for residents throughout the area. But as armies of police combed the area seeking the second suspect in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, some Jews experienced something more than their non-Jewish neighbors — sparks, in some cases, of earlier traumas. “We…
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U.S. Offers Mideast Allies $10 Billion Arms Deal To Fight Iran Threat
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel hopes to finalize a major arms deal with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates during a visit to the Middle East this week, and also discuss fresh military supplies to Israel, an Israeli official said on Friday. The accord is worth $10 billion and will help the three countries…
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