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German Cabinet Schedules Circumcision Amendment Debate
Germany’s Cabinet has scheduled a discussion on an amendment that would formally legalize ritual circumcision but place some restrictions on who could circumcise and how. The discussion was set for Oct. 10, the German paper Die Welt reported. To become law, the amendment needs to pass a vote in the Bundestag. Amendment 1631d to the…
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Philadelphia Jews Aren’t Changing Their Votes
In a classroom at a Jewish employment service in Center City Philadelphia, Naomi Mindlin is trying, for the first time in her life, to learn networking skills — a gateway, she believes, for finding a job in troubling times. The mother of two, who lives in Langhorne, Pa., is a retired modern dancer and freelance…
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Debate Watching in Florida; Federal Funds for Religious Colleges; Babs in Brooklyn
In this week’s podcast, fill-in host Paul Berger is joined by Forward staff writer Josh Nathan-Kazis who is currently reporting from Florida on how the Jewish community of South Florida is seeing the impending presidential election. Then, Forward editor Jane Eisner drops by to discuss how some religious colleges are using federal money to fund…
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Sexuality on Sesame Street
Elmo’s radio broke. He shook his furry head and banged on his toy. Elmo wanted to listen to music. He wanted to sing the ABCs, or a song about shapes and circles or fish in the sea. I was 25 years old when I first watched “Sesame Street.” Oh, I knew Bert and Ernie from…
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How Jewish College Uses Federal Funds To Grow
It was the first week of the new semester at Michigan Jewish Institute, a college of more than 2,000 students, nestled in the leafy Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield. But at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the classrooms were silent and the entrance to the college’s temporary home, an impressive $6 million brick-and-glass synagogue with a…
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After Scandal, Slow Start for Ethical Certification
Magen Tzedek, the kosher ethics certification program launched four years ago, has yet to certify its first food producer. In fact, Rabbi Morris Allen, the group’s program director, told the Forward that independent auditors only completed their initial audit of the project’s first potential candidate to receive the Magen Tzedek seal in August. And even…
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Missing Guests at Abbas Dinner
When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned American Jewish leaders in late September that Israel had only a short time left to make peace, a few key Jews weren’t there to hear the message. Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman didn’t show, although he had originally told organizers he would be there. Malcolm Hoenlein, the…
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Famed ‘New Hagaddah’ Included Lifted Passages
Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-selling, star-studded New American Haggadah failed to credit original Hebrew text lifted from another prominent Haggadah, the novelist has acknowledged to the Forward. Future printings of the New American Haggadah will credit the older text, Foer said. The lifted Hebrew text came from “The Feast of Freedom,” a Passover Haggadah published in…
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Jewish Life Slowly Dying in Abkhazia
“Yosef Ashkenazi,” a smile creeps across my new acquaintance’s wizened face as he introduces himself and adds “but not Ashkenadze!” That pronunciation would leave Yosef with a typically Georgian surname. But the –adzes and the –shvilis — another telltale Georgian name ending — have all but left Abkhazia. Seventy-year-old Yosef Ashkenazi is, of course, an…
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Jewish Numbers in Congress Set To Plunge
The U.S. Congress will see a steep drop in Jewish members after the November election, a Forward analysis suggests. The Forward is projecting that 31 Jews will serve in the next Congress — eight fewer than the number that served at the start of the last Congress. Interactive map of 2012 Congressional elections involving Jews…
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How Green Can Your Sukkah Be?
Six highly untraditional sukkahs — imagine black ash, recycled wood, inflatable inner tubes and grass — took over Liberty Park in this city’s downtown section in late September, inaugurating a locally sponsored national competition for environmental sukkah design. The sprawling scene was the work of a project known as Sukkah Arbor. The project is one…
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