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Dazzling Miss Israel Brings Message of Jewish Diversity to America
When Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw, entered a Solomon Schechter Day School prekindergarten class, in New Milford, N.J., a caretaker excitedly asked the children, “Do you know where she’s from?” “Africa!” one confident little girl shouted. The adult quickly corrected the 3-year-old, explaining that Aynaw is in fact from “Eretz Israel.” The little girl’s reaction demonstrated…
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Most Wanted List of Nazis Shifts With Two More Nabbed
Video: Nate Lavey When a recent exposé unmasked a 94-year-old Minneapolis resident as the commander of a Nazi-led unit and as an SS officer during World War II, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s chief Nazi hunter faced a vexing dilemma: Who should be bumped off the center’s “Most Wanted War Criminals” list next year to make…
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Six Excuses To Celebrate Jewishly This Summer
Sadly, between Shavuot (May 15) and Rosh Hashanah (September 5) there is a shortage of Jewish holidays. Sure, there’s Tisha B’Av (July 15), a day to recall the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other Jewish tragedies. But who wants to throw a party on a fast day? Tu B’Av, the Israeli equivalent…
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Aiming To Aid Orthodox, Tax Plan Would Extend Credit for Large Families
A new tax proposal submitted to Congress could bring new federal subsidies to poor Orthodox Jewish families with four or more children. The bill, introduced in early June by Democratic New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, would extend the Earned Income Tax Credit, a tax subsidy for poor families. The current program provides larger benefits for…
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Female Orthodox Leaders: New and Old
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward intern Anne Cohen to discuss the recent graduation of the first class of maharat — orthodox female religious leaders. Then, Yoel Matveev of the Forverts drops by to give a fascinating history of the radical orthodox women who have lead congregations in…
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Orthodox Schism Over Role of Women Widens After Graduation of Maharats
The dust has settled after the June 16 graduation of the first class of female maharats from a groundbreaking Orthodox rabbinical school. But controversy over the role that the newly minted religious leaders from Yeshivat Maharat will play in Orthodoxy — along with 14 more students in future classes — appears to be just getting…
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Debbie Stoller Talks About What Makes Bust a Hit
Debbie Stoller, 49, always had lofty aspirations for Bust, the genre-smashing, stereotype-shattering magazine she and Laurie Henzel launched in 1993. “Even though it just started as a [photocopied], stapled-together thing, we always thought it would take its place on the newsstand, next to all the other women’s magazines,” Stoller said. “We hoped it would provide…
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Getting In Face of Ultra-Orthodox on Need for Real World Education
Gedalya Gottdenger’s dream is to get a degree in psychology. But unlike most 21-year-olds, Gottdenger lacks a basic education, even though he has been studying since he was a child. Gottdenger, who grew up in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, is a product of ultra-Orthodox Jewish day schools in which, numerous students report, math and…
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Are Jewish Non-Profits Targeted by IRS Over Ties to Israel?
As the Internal Revenue Service reels from revelations that it targeted Tea Party groups’ tax-exempt applications for extra scrutiny, Jewish groups from the left and right are seeking to draw attention to a less noticed reality they say they face: Groups with ties to Israel seem to be drawing extra IRS scrutiny, too. Several Jewish…
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Melissa Etheridge Blasts Angelina Jolie for Choosing Preventive Breast Cancer Surgery
The debate over Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy in order to reduce her chances of breast cancer from a ‘Jewish gene’ mutation just got feisty. Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who is herself a breast cancer survivor, said Jolie’s decision was “fearful”, in an interview with the Washington Blade. Asked about Jolie’s decisions, Etheridge,…
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Tapping Into Growing Lure of Hidden Jewish Heritage Online
Catherine Afarian calls herself a “love child of the ‘70s.” Her mother discovered that she was pregnant after she had broken off a relationship of less than a year. Afarian has never met her biological father, but her mother always said he came from a big Italian family, and Afarian got a kick out of…
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