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Rabbi With Midlife Crisis Looks for Answers
We both knew it was over. Though I’d been the spiritual leader of my congregation in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village since its founding in 1999, and while we’d weathered the horrors of 9/11, personal tragedies and a catastrophic recession together — as well as celebrated births, marriages and other joyous events — if I had to…
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Black Bar Mitzvahs, Veep Debate, Israel Votes
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Israeli correspondent Nathan Jeffay to discuss why Benjamin Netanyahu has called for early elections and who might challenge him. Then, Forward editor Jane Eisner gives her impressions of the vice presidential debate. Finally, Forward fellow Seth Berkman and Eli Valley drop some knowledge on the…
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Barbra Streisand Soars in Brooklyn Return
Blending photo montages with at times a thick accent and a singing voice still soaring at the age of 70, Barbra Streisand performed on Thursday in her first big concert where it all began – her birthplace of Brooklyn, New York. In the second show of her “Back to Brooklyn” tour, Streisand performed for nearly…
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Photo of Jew’s Lynching Goes on Block
A photograph of the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish pencil factory superintendent, in Marietta, Georgia, was sold for $3,125 at an auction. The warm-toned photograph on postcard stock includes a pencilled caption on the back by an unidentified hand with the words: “Hanging of Leo Frank.” It sold at Sotheby’s on October 3….
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation Ceremony and National Osteoporosis Foundation Lunch
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Honored by Appeal of Conscience Foundation “A crime perpetrated in the name of religion is the greatest crime against religion,” said Rabbi Arthur Schneier, founder and president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, at the organization’s annual awards dinner held at the Waldorf Astoria on September 27. Canadian Prime Minister…
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Born on the Lower East Side
Oh, to live in a teeming tenement! That’s not a sentiment you hear a lot these days. In fact, it’s doubtful that the great wave of Jews immigrating to New York at the turn of the last century would have uttered it, either. But to the tenements they came, and New York has never been…
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Eric Cantor Takes Nothing for Granted
Dozens of yard signs supporting Eric Cantor’s run for re-election lined the road leading to the Virginia Republican Roundup election rally. Cantor, who hosted the event — a combination political gathering and country fair — is considered one of the strongest forces helping struggling Republican candidates throughout the country. Yet here was Cantor making a…
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Looking Back: August 31, 2012
100 Years Ago 1912 The two young men who were arrested in Albany under the suspicion that they were wanted murderers “Lefty Louie” Rosenberg and Harry “Gyp the Blood” Horowitz are expected to be freed soon. The men are actually peddlers in the Albany area. District Attorney Charles Whitman had claimed that Rosenberg would be…
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Germany Debates Proposal To Protect Circumcision
A proposal to enshrine circumcision of male children as a protected procedure that Jews and Muslims could continue without fear of sanction faces an uncertain fate in Germany’s Bundestag, say close observers of German politics. The proposal heading to the parliament aims to calm a storm that erupted last May after a Cologne court ruled…
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Politics at Ben Gurion May Eliminate Politics in Class
In what many academics see as an ideological move against a left-leaning university department, Israel’s higher education authority is advancing a plan to stop politics courses at Ben Gurion University. The Politics and Government department at the Beersheba-based university had been criticized from the right for employing academics who espouse a liberal perspective. Two years…
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Middle East Hot Topics and Hospital for Joint Diseases Gala
Jack Jacobs and Colin Kahl Dish Reality at The Common Good “Middle East Hot Topics” Lunch at The Friars Club There were no funny punch lines in the Milton Berle Room at the Friars Club, where 70 guests gathered on September 20 for a lunch featuring retired Army colonel Jack Jacobs, recipient of the Congressional…
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