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Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot Wow Yiddish-Savvy Audience at Center For Jewish History
“Ir redt Yiddish?” [“Do you speak Yiddish?”] I asked violinist Itzhak Perlman. He smiled and answered me in Yiddish when I came into the green room at the Center for Jewish History to chat with the participants of the September 9 sold-out program “In Conversation: Eternal Echoes: Songs and Dances for the Soul.” To my…
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Monica’s Memoir; Bibi Bombs; Ethical Kosher Certification
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman and Opinion Editor Gal Beckerman to discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent speech at the U.N. and his unorthodox style when addressing an international audience on the subject of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Then, Editor Jane Eisner drops by to discuss the rumors…
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Keeping the Conversation Going
When my mother started to lose memories in her 90s, she moved into a residential community near me, in Cambridge, Mass. I had been a cultural critic of age in America, an “age critic,” for decades. But the focus in my books — beginning with “Safe at Last in the Middle Years” — had been…
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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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