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Scandal Won’t Mean The End for Rabbi Pinto — Or His Wife
The night I first met Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, I hardly noticed his wife. She opened the door when I arrived at their Manhattan townhouse, dressed all in black with her head covered. If she said anything at all, I didn’t think it important enough to write down. I was there to see her husband,…
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Arlen Specter Wore Independence on Sleeve
During his 30 years in the clubby confines of the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter never lost his acerbic prosecutorial zeal, friends and associates say. The insistent questions, the commitment to independence that made the longtime Pennsylvania senator a critical player in recent U.S. history, ultimately did in his career. In his 2010 bid for a…
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Canadian Given Clemency for Evading Israeli Service
Yana Gorelik, the Canadian-Israeli who was imprisoned on charges of evading military service in Israel, was granted clemency and her jail term was reduced. Gorelik was released from military prison on Monday, the Times of Israel reported. Gorelik, 30, served about half of her three-month sentence, which was the result of a plea bargain reached…
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Election Holds Little Hope for Florida Jews
Elderly Jews shouldn’t move to South Florida. That’s the advice of the Jewish welfare agency serving this area, which has more old Jews than anywhere in the country but New York. If your grandmother doesn’t live within half an hour of the Boynton Beach JCC, her sister probably does. Four years into the recession, things…
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Brave Film Tells Story of Egypt and Its Jews
Sitting in a Cairo coffee shop, with his boyish face and gaunt physique, Amir Ramses looks at first glance like someone half his age. But the prominent 33-year-old film director has already directed three major commercial films and several acclaimed documentaries. His new film, the independently produced “Jews of Egypt,” Ramses says, is his most…
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Jewish Family Wants ‘The Scream’ History Explained
The heirs of a German-Jewish banker who claim the famous Edvard Munch painting “The Scream” was looted from him by the Nazis want a New York museum to explain its history in its new display. The 1895 work by Edvard Munch is set to go on display Oct. 24 at the Museum of Modern Art…
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Arlen Specter, A Fiercely Independent American Original
It was impossible to be a journalist in Philadelphia and not encounter Arlen Specter. It was just about impossible to be engaged in the Philadelphia Jewish community and not encounter Arlen Specter. As a member of the working press in Philadelphia for decades, and as a parent active in my children’s Jewish day schools, I…
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Arlen Specter Dies of Cancer
Arlen Specter, a gruff, independent-minded moderate who spent three decades in the U.S. Senate but was spurned by Pennsylvania voters after switching in 2009 from Republican to Democrat, died on Sunday of cancer, his family said. He was 82. Specter had announced in August a recurrence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, cancer of the lymphatic system. His…
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French Still Hunt Kosher Store Bomb Suspects
French authorities have indicted seven suspects in the recent bombing of a kosher store near Paris but have not caught those who hurled the bomb, a Paris prosecutor said. Francois Molins of the Paris public prosecutor’s office said on Saturday that seven suspects have been indicted for belonging to a terrorist association and that two…
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Circumcision Rite Goes Unregulated Outside New York
As New York City health authorities and ultra-Orthodox groups clash over metzitzah b’peh, officials in other cities are making no effort to regulate the risky oral suction technique sometimes used during ritual circumcision. In fact, unlike in New York City, health authorities elsewhere often have no mandate to monitor the incidence of the herpes strain…
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Israeli Strike Kills Gaza Radical
An Israeli air strike killed the Palestinian leader of an al Qaeda-affiliated group in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Hamas and medical sources said. Gaza Medics said a second militant was also killed in the strike. The after-dark attack targeted the two men who were riding a motorcycle in the northern town of Jabaliya. The…
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