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Anti-Islam Film’s Jewish Tie Crumbles
An alleged tie between Jews and a film that sparked violence in the Arab world by insulting the prophet Mohammed, put Jewish activists on alert following the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans during riots against the film. Jewish activists feared a widely reported role of Jews in funding and…
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Obama Tells Rabbis: No Leader Ties Hands
In between briefings and phone conversations with Arab leaders, President Barack Obama took time on Friday for a pre-Rosh Hashanah conference call with 1,200 rabbis from all Jewish denominations. Obama, speaking as news on anti-American protests poured in from capitals across the Arab world, acknowledged the difficulties the United States faces in dealing with the…
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Fewer Jews in Congress, Bibi’s Red Line, ZOA Woes
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman to discuss the impending drop in the number of congressional seats held by Jews. Then Editor Jane Eisner joins the conversation to discuss why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s posturing on Iran is becoming a campaign issue. Finally, Josh and…
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Hooking Up for the High Holy Days
‘I’ve got the apples. Now all I need is you, honey.” Okay, so maybe no one’s using that line. But come the High Holidays there’s more than one reason tickets to synagogue cost so much. It’s the hottest singles scene in town. “When I was younger, my mom and I used to sit in the…
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Shelley Berkley Takes Chance on Senate
A decision to leave a safe congressional seat and run for Senate could prove risky for a leading Jewish lawmaker who has often found herself in the crosshairs of Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. Rep. Shelley Berkley, a Nevada Democrat and leading pro-Israel voice on Capitol Hill, is locked in a dead-heat race in a crucial…
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ZOA Faces Doubts About Management
The Zionist Organization of America’s board expressed support for the continued leadership of National President Morton Klein at a meeting on September 11, hours after the Forward publicly revealed that the group had lost its tax-exempt status. The loss of the exemption came after the 115-year-old Zionist group missed three consecutive years of Internal Revenue…
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App-arently, It Could Be Easier to Grab a Cab
As those who live in the city will tell you, anyone who thinks New Yorkers can catch a New York cab in a New York minute does not live in New York. But now, the city’s Taxi & Limousine Commission is set to award an exclusive contract for a cab-hailing app with a receiving device…
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Ukrainian City Braces for Hasidic ‘Invasion’
Balancing her voluptuous figure on high heels, Alexandra Rostov boards a minibus at Kiev’s Moskovskyi bus station, setting down her zebra-patterned bag as the driver starts the Soviet-era clunker. Like thousands of Ukrainians, Rostov is heading to Uman, a sleepy city of some 85,000 in central Ukraine, to find work associated with the annual pilgrimage…
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Democrats Have History in Jewish Vote Fight
In the battle for Jewish votes this November, both parties acknowledge the other’s advantage: Republicans have the money and Democrats have the history. The funding disparity was evident on Sunday and Monday when the Republican Jewish Coalition rolled out major voter outreach bids in three major Jewish population centers: the suburbs of Cleveland and Philadelphia,…
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Eli Zborowski, Founder of Yad Vashem Society, Dies
Eli Zborowski, a Holocaust survivor who founded and served as the chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem, has died. Zborowski, who founded the society in 1981 and served as its chairman until his death, died Monday in New York. He was 87. Zborowski was born in Zarki, Poland. He was able to leave…
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ZOA’s Uncertain Status
The Zionist Organization of America’s tax-exempt status has been revoked after the group missed three consecutive years of filings to the Internal Revenue Service, the Forward has learned. The 115-year-old Zionist group has not been allowed to accept tax-deductible donations since February. Read new Forward story about questions over ZOA ZOA spokesman David Drimer, the…
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