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After Islamist Threat Repelled, Spotlight Hits ‘Jews’ of Fabled Timbuktu
Timbuktu, the remote and ancient Sahara Desert city that was until recently controlled by Al Qaeda-affiliated groups, is not often thought of as an outpost of Jewish life. Yet this West African town of some 55,000, in northern Mali, is still home to an estimated 1,000 descendants of Jews who converted to Islam centuries ago….
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Lakewood’s Orthodox Take Aim at a Tent City; Anti-Semitic Cyber-Stalking
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward fellow Seth Berkman to discuss his story about a tent city in Lakewood, New Jersey a town with a large, dominant Orthodox community. Then, Naomi Zeveloff drops by to discuss her story about a professor whose professional relationship with a student devolved…
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Remembering Vladka Meed
“This is a celebration of a life lived,” said David Posner, senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, in his invocation at the February 3 “Memorial and Celebration of an Extraordinary Life — Vladka Meed, 1921–2012,” held at the synagogue’s Lowenstein Auditorium. Vladka Meed was a leader in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising; she died in Phoenix on…
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Forward’s Larry Cohler-Esses Wins Prize for Hamas Interview
Larry Cohler-Esses, assistant managing editor of the Forward, has won the second annual David Twersky Journalism Award for his April 19, 2012, exclusive Cairo interview with Mousa Abu Marzook, Hamas’s second-highest-ranking official. Established in honor of Twersky’s distinguished life in journalism, the award recognizes the work of journalists at the Forward and at the New…
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Aid to Sandy-Hit Synagogues Splits Jewish Lawmakers, Community Down the Middle
When Congress lingered in approving additional federal funding for communities affected by superstorm Sandy, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, forcefully criticized the delay. But when the House of Representatives voted recently to allow houses of worship to apply for federal aid after natural disasters, Nadler vehemently opposed the move. Nadler said he sympathized…
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Israel’s Tzipi Livni Will Face Struggle To Jumpstart Palestinian Peace Process
Tzipi Livni’s coalition pact with right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu speaks volumes about the obstacles ahead for the moderate former Israeli foreign minister in her new task of pursuing peace with the Palestinians. Expectations of a new peacemaking initiative have been raised by a planned visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan next month by U.S….
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Turning the Key to the Great Houses of Lox
On Sunday mornings, New Yorkers can be found lining up in droves to purchase their weekly allotment of smoked salmon. They cluster in front of the fish counter at Russ & Daughters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and at Zabar’s on the Upper West Side, or at newcomer Shelsky’s Smoked Fish in Brooklyn, where they…
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Jewish Candidates Skip New York Mayor’s Race, But Crowd Vies in Los Angeles
New York City and Los Angeles will both elect new mayors this year. One city will likely pick a Jew. The other will not. Think you know which city is which? New York seems primed for another Jewish mayor. Three of the past five have been Jewish, including the current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and the…
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Philip Roth Answers Your Letters, BootyCall Israel
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Backward editors Dan Friedman and Tony Weiss to discuss the latest issue of the Backward, which features Philip Roth answering questions in the Bintel Brief, a new Birthright trip called “BootyCall Israel.” Plus, is Hollywood giving up blockbuster Holocaust movies for slavery movies?…
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The Forward Says Good-Bye to Mister Katz
The honorific “Mr.” is applied to just one member of staff at the Forward. Not to Forward Association president and newspaper publisher Samuel Norich, nor to the chairman of the board, Jacob Morowitz, but to a Yiddish copy editor, Louis Katz. The elfin Mr. Katz — or simply “Katz” or “Ketsele,” as he is referred…
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spread Into Once-Black Brooklyn Neighborhoods
If you’re looking to move to an apartment on or near Park Avenue, be prepared to break open the piggy bank. Prices are higher than ever and developers are squabbling over construction rights. That’s Park Avenue, Brooklyn – not its swankier Manhattan namesake. For decades, this derelict corner of New York’s most populous borough was…
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