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Painting as Prayer in Poland
This summer I traveled for the first time to Poland, where my grandparents were born, to help recreate an 18th-century wooden synagogue from the town of Gwoździec. This trip was an expression of a deep desire to connect with my own “Polishness.” I wanted to engage in a creative activity in a place often associated…
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ZOA’s Mort Klein Gets 38% Pay Hike
The Zionist Organization of America’s president received a 38% raise in the years that the group failed to disclose its finances to the Internal Revenue Service, according to documents obtained by the Forward. The IRS revoked the tax-exempt status of the hawkish Israel advocacy group in February after the organization missed three consecutive years of…
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Forward Series Reveals Life Inside Hasidic World
This week, the Forward will publish the first in a series of essays by Judy Brown, a 32-year-old author and journalist from the Hasidic neighborhood of Boro Park, in Brooklyn. Brown is in the process of leaving her community, and her series, “Inside Out,” is the narrative of her Hasidic life and her departure from…
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Germany Drafts Law To Protect Circumcision
Germany’s Ministry of Justice has presented a draft law to permit circumcisions by doctors and mohels as a matter of religious freedom in response to uncertainty about the procedure fueled by a Cologne court’s ban on the procedure. The Cologne court’s June ruling, which angered Muslims and Jews, held that circumcision deprives a child of…
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Seven Years Later, Rookie Gets Second Chance
A Chicago Cubs rookie who was hit in the head by a pitch seven years ago and never played another Major League Baseball game will receive a second chance. Adam Greenberg will sign a one-day contract with the Miami Marlins and be guaranteed one at-bat in Tuesday’s game against the New York Mets, Marlins president…
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Netanyahu Calls for ‘Clear Red Line’ on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew his “red line” for Iran’s nuclear program on Thursday – the point at which Iran has amassed nearly enough highly enriched uranium for a single atomic bomb – and voiced confidence that the United States shares his view. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu appeared to pull back from…
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Iran Pushes Ahead With Nuclear Reactor
Iran appears to be making headway in building a research reactor that could yield potential nuclear weapon material, adding to Western concerns about Tehran’s atomic aims, experts and diplomats say. The West’s worries about Iran are focused largely on underground uranium enrichment plants at Natanz and Fordow, but it is also pressing ahead with construction…
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Seeking To Cut Iran’s Nuclear Team Off Web
A group of activists are leading a drive to ban Iranian companies involved in the country’s nuclear program from accessing the Internet — a move that would essentially cut them off from the global information network. The activists, from a bipartisan group called United Against Nuclear Iran, have appealed to the international providers of Internet…
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Senators Demand Cuba Free Alan Gross
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has sent a letter to Cuban President Raul Castro urging the release of an American contractor jailed in Cuba for nearly three years, saying his detention is “a major obstacle” to improving relations. The letter, signed by 44 senators, is the strongest appeal yet by members of Congress in…
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The Great Date (and Peach) War of Gaza
The Hamas government has barred much of Gaza’s fruit imports from Israel, citing a need to cultivate local Palestinian agriculture and for “resistance” against the Jewish state. The ban is opposed by Gazan produce traders who fear a squeeze on supplies and price hikes in the poor coastal enclave, which has a largely black market…
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Prisoners Weigh Making Jewish Identity Public
An American Jew’s desperate plea to Israel and the American Jewish community for help has highlighted his plight as a captive of Al Qaeda in Pakistan, which has held him for more than a year. In two videotaped messages released by the terror group in September, Warren Weinstein, a foreign aid contract worker from Maryland,…
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