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Obama and Romney Line Up Lawyers for Close Race
As President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney scramble to come out ahead in the Nov. 6 election, two other men are preparing for a legal showdown that could begin the next day. They are the lawyers who have been tapped by the Obama and Romney teams to navigate any legal challenges to voting procedures…
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Nanny Stabbing Victims’ Family Belongs to JCC
The Upper West Side family whose young children were allegedly murdered by their nanny on Thursday are members of the JCC in Manhattan, the organization said today. It’s unclear whether the parents, Kevin and Marina Krim, are Jewish. The family has a pool membership at the JCC, according to Erica Werber, the group’s senior director…
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Teach the Holocaust Separately, Germans Told
Teaching about the Holocaust has not kept the old wounds of Jew hatred from reopening in Germany. This is the reality that the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, implicitly acknowledged October 17 when it debated the state of anti-Semitism in the country following a disturbing government-commissioned report delivered to it last January. The report, written by a…
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Rabbis Pressure Christine Quinn Over Sick Leave
Dozens of prominent liberal New York City rabbis are demanding that 2013 mayoral frontrunner Christine Quinn approve a bill that would require city businesses to provide employees with paid sick days. Members of the City Council overwhelmingly support the bill, as do a handful of other potential mayoral candidates. Quinn, however, the speaker of the…
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Robert Farber Exhibit, Society of Illustrators Panel and Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project
Photographer Robert Farber Zooms in on National Meningitis Association The October 8 private party and exhibition of photographer Robert Farber’s iconic nudes was a boutique happening. The crush of guests spilling out of Farber’s East Side Manhattan atelier onto his charming brownstone garden included philanthropist Francine LeFrak, publicists Edward Callaghan and John Wegorzewski, events producer…
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Disenchanted Jewish Voters, Eli Valley’s Science Experiment
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Nathan Guttman to talk about their interviews with Jewish voters in swing states and the prevailing sense of disenchantment with the presidential election. Then, opinion editor Gal Beckerman drops by with a few words for undecided voters. Finally, Eli Valley calls in to discuss his…
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Memorial to ‘Forgotten’ Roma Holocaust Opens in Germany
Germany remembered the Holocaust’s forgotten victims on Wednesday by opening a memorial in the heart of Berlin to the half a million ethnic Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis. As the mournful strains of a solo violin sounded through the trees, political leaders and frail survivors approached a dark pool close to the German…
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Gentiles at the Gates
Once, life in Brooklyn’s Boro Park was simple. There was the inside and the outside and an impenetrable wall in between. Then came the Internet, and everything changed. In the beginning, we did not fully understand. The computer seemed to be a rather innocuous box: glass screen; dark plastic, flat keyboard, and a cursor that…
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ZOA Cancels Annual Fundraising Dinner
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new information. The Zionist Organization of America has canceled its annual fundraising dinner because of the loss of its tax-exempt status, the organization has confirmed. The fundraiser, usually held in late November or early December, is a key annual event for the group. Recent galas have drawn…
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Henry Friedlander, Holocaust Scholar, Dies at 82
Holocaust scholar Henry Friedlander, a Berlin-born survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Ravensbrueck who went on to establish the significance of Hitler’s mass murder of the disabled as a precursor to the Shoah, died on October 17 in Maine after a protracted illness. He was 82. As with many survivors, Friedlander…
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Ohio Jews Tune Out Presidential Election
American Jews are long famous for their political engagement. But Jews here in Cleveland just want this presidential election to end. In this fiercely contested swing state, every commercial break on TV features ads for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama; radio broadcasts are packed with super PAC attack messages and — worst of all —…
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