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Many Claim Membership But Few Pay Shul Dues
Roughly twice as many people consider themselves members of synagogues as the number of people that actually pay dues to those congregations. That’s one intriguing interpretation of a discrepancy that surfaced within the data collected in UJA-Federation of New York’s recent survey of Jews in the New York area. Members of slightly more than 60,000…
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A Year After Leiby, Natalie’s Nuptials
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by the Forward’s Deputy Culture Editor, Naomi Zeveloff to discuss how the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Boro Park is coping, one year after the tragic abduction and murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Then Forward intern Simi Lampert explains why she feels like she is bragging when she…
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Sami Rohr, Philanthropist Who ‘Invested’ Millions in the Jewish People
When Sami Rohr was a young real estate developer living in Bogotá, Colombia, in the 1950s, fundraisers from abroad often came to collect money from the local Jewish community. While Rohr donated to all of them, and encouraged his employees to do the same, emissaries from the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement impressed him more than others….
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El Al Won’t Commit To Bargain Fares
An El Al spokesperson said the airline had not decided whether or not to honor round-trip tickets to Israel that were offered erroneously for prices as low as $330. On Wednesday afternoon, the airline issued the following statement via Twitter: “Thanks for your patience. Details/decisions re incorrect fares that were briefly sold on Monday are…
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Reading Ladino in Greece
For a flavor of Salonica and an insight into the Jewish life of this major Ottoman port, listen to Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein talk to Dan Friedman about their book “A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi”
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Shomrim Don’t Want Police To See Security Video
Publicly funded security cameras planned for Brooklyn’s heavily Orthodox Boro Park neighborhood should not be directly accessible to the police, said the leader of the community’s influential volunteer security patrol, because this would make it harder to keep certain crimes within the community. Jacob Daskal, coordinator of the Boro Park Shomrim, said that a centralized…
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After Year, Leiby Kletzky Murder Still Hurts
One summer afternoon last July, a mother waited on a Brooklyn street corner for an 8-year-old boy who would never arrive. The abduction and murder of Leiby Kletzky shook the insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Boro Park, where Leiby lived and died. One year later, the impact of the crime is still being felt. Leaders…
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Chicago’s Doomed Hero of Lake Michigan
Donald Liu, a prominent Chicago pediatric surgeon who drowned in Lake Michigan while trying to save two boys, was remembered as a remarkable man, unparalleled doctor and selfless hero. “If you were a baby’s mother, this is the doctor you would want to care for your child from beginning to end,” said John Alverdy, MD,…
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Liberia Reminds Me of Israel
Perverse as it sounds, during the eight days I spent in Liberia on a study trip with American Jewish World Service a few weeks ago, I thought a lot about Israel. And not just because of the seismic role that Liberia played in Jewish history when, in May 1948, it cast the tie-breaking vote in…
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Arizona Hopeful Parries Attacks on Israel
An effort to portray a candidate in a high-stakes Arizona Democratic congressional primary as anti-Israel doesn’t seem to have rallied local pro-Israel activists against her. Kyrsten Sinema, a former Arizona state legislator and the only non-Jew in the three-person Democratic race, has been the subject of a handful of articles highlighting her past ties to…
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A (Really) Frozen Bagel
Among the many things I’d resigned myself to leaving behind when my wife and I moved to Alaska from New York City — family and friends, Yankee Stadium, never having to drive — bagels topped the list. And I don’t mean the fluffy, soft roll-with-a-hole available at every Starbucks on earth. I’m talking about a…
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