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A China Set That Held a Family’s Memories
It was our 53rd wedding anniversary, which we celebrated with a special dinner at home, as we often did, and I had just poured steaming espresso into the blue-and-white translucent cups that we saved for very special occasions. As we sat down to sip our coffee, David looked at the demitasse cups and the pitcher…
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Frank Lautenberg, Dead at 89, Recalled as Jewish Senator Who Never Ran as One
Frank Lautenberg, the U.S. Senate’s oldest sitting senator and a former longtime Jewish community activist, died Monday morning at 89. Lautenberg represented New Jersey in the Senate from 1982 to 2001, and then again from 2003 until his death. He served in the 1970s as a top lay leader of the United Jewish Appeal, the…
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Anthony Weiner Hits Comeback Trail in Mayor’s Race — With Scant Jewish Backing
New York’s mayoral race finally has a Jewish candidate, but he’s not getting much organized Jewish support Anthony Weiner’s much hyped announcement that he would run in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor was greeted with a collective shrug by Jewish activists and donors across New York City. That’s in part because the…
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Old-School Brooklyn Hat Store Keeps Hasids and Hipsters Looking Dapper
Stanley Goldstein sits at the center of a narrow hat store in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, fielding customers’ questions about brim sizes, crowns and colors. Bencraft Hatters, which was first opened in 1948 by Goldstein’s father, has been selling hats to Jews and non-Jews for 65 years and carries everything from cowboy hats and…
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Grave-Robbers Target Cuba’s Jewish Cemeteries in Search of Bones for Rituals
Guanabacoa, a colonial town southeast of Havana where the first African guild was created to alleviate the plight of slaves in Cuba, is a somewhat improbable home for not one, but two Jewish cemeteries, both of them more than a century old. They are not the only places where Jews are buried on the island,…
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Hungary Mayor Rethinks Naming Street After Anti-Semitic Author
The mayor of Budapest ordered a re-examination of a controversial decision to name a street after an anti-Semitic author. Maria Szucs Ciuc, a spokeswoman for Mayor Istvan Tarlos, told the news site FN24.hu on Thursday that the mayor had ordered a re-examination of the city council’s decision to name a street after Cecile Tormay, a…
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In Hasidic Williamsburg, Not Everyone Is Against Citi Bike
During the launch of New York City’s shared bicycle program this week, shiny kiosks throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn have been surrounded by curious gawkers examining the bulky blue bikes that can be rented and returned at multiple locations with at least one notable exception — the Hasidic-dominated neighborhood of South Williamsburg. As Brooklyn has been…
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The Ultra-Orthodox Threat; A Classic Williamsburg Hat Store; 125 Years of Katz’s Deli
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward contributor Jay Michaelson to talk about his recent, controversial piece on Jewish fundamentalism and the ultra-Orthodox. Then, Nate Lavey drops by to discuss his video on a classic Brooklyn hat store and their century-old equipment. Finally, Susan Armitage gives a brief history…
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Claims Conference Chair Lashes Out at Critics
The chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Julius Berman, has hit out at media coverage and Jewish communal criticism of his handling of a 2001 letter that could have stopped a multi-million dollar fraud at the organization he has led for more than 10 years. READ THE FORWARD’S RESPONSE TO BERMAN’S…
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Lay-Offs Bring Curtain Down on Jewish Era at Village Voice
For much of its existence, the Village Voice was a paper where you could call a momzer a momzer and use just that term to do it. But the news in May that the out-of-town momzers who own the Voice had fired the paper’s last remaining signature writers — Michael Feingold, Michael Musto and Robert…
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Endless Jewish Possibilities of Google Glass
Over the past few weeks, strangers have begun stopping high school computer science teacher Chaim Cohen on the street. A few accuse him of recording them without their knowledge. Even fewer blame him for all of society’s ills. But many just want an answer to a simple question: Is he wearing Google Glass? Cohen is…
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