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Throng Celebrates ‘Jewish Unity’ at Talmud Reading
The gathering of 90,000 Jews at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on August 1 is the culmination of what could be seen as the world’s largest book club celebrating the completion of one of the world’s longest books. For the past seven and a half years, men — and some women — around the world have…
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Mandel-Brown Race Shapes Up as Costly Ohio Battle
A flood of money brought in by prominent national political action committees has become the norm in this year’s U.S. Senate race in Ohio, which pits first-term incumbent Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, against Republican Josh Mandel, the state treasurer and a Jewish Iraq war veteran. Because of the state’s swing role in recent presidential elections…
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Lezak Helps Swimmers Win Silver
Four-time gold medalist Jason Lezak, competing in likely what is his final Olympics, helped the American swim team qualify for the 4×100-meter freestyle relay finals. Lezak swam in the morning preliminaries on Sunday but did not compete that evening in the finals, when the U.S. took the silver medal. For Lezak it was his eighth…
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Cuomo Set To Veto Orthodox Special Ed Bill
A push by Orthodox Jews to ease access to access to public funds for private religious special education programs appears ready to be killed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Governor Andrew Cuomo would veto a bill that would have allowed some Orthodox children to receive state funding…
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Winding Road from ‘Casablanca’
In 1972, shortly after Thilde Foerster died, her son and granddaughter went to clean out her apartment in Santa Barbara, Calif. There they found an old battered suitcase hidden under her bed, filled with film scripts, plays and an unfinished novel. Foerster’s son, Michael Forster, knew that his mother had worked in the film industry…
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Circle of Pro-Israel Writers Rises
They’re under 30, mostly right-of-center on Israel and writing for some of the pre-eminent publications in America. A new crop of young pro-Israel writers is on the ascent. And many of them got their start at the same place: a collection of small university journals seeded by the Shalem Center, a prominent Zionist think tank…
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Flinder Boyd’s British Dream Dies
For 32-year-old Flinder Boyd, there will undoubtedly be a slight sense of disappointment when he watches the Great Britain basketball team take the court at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Playing in the Olympics once loomed large as the culmination of Boyd’s career that included 10 years playing professionally in Europe and a standout…
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Is He Beacon for the Jews of Lithuania?
With crucial help from Lithuania’s ambassador to Washington, a Maryland cemetery employee has managed to position himself as a key mediator between Jews and the Lithuanian government in a little more than one year. Harley Felstein launched his new organization, the Lithuanian Jewish Heritage Project, at a party hosted by Ambassador Zygimantas Pavilionis at the…
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Jo Aleh Is Olympic Rarity
Jo Aleh, a 26-year-old from New Zealand, will be competing in the 2012 Olympics in the women’s 470 sailing competition. Aleh, whose parents, Shuki and Daniella Aleh, lived in Israel before moving to her native Auckland, will be sailing with teammate Olivia ‘Polly’ Powrie in their vessel, Muppet. Aleh came in seventh in the 2008…
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State Cash May Fund Orthodox Special Ed
A bill currently awaiting the signature of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo offers the Orthodox community the possibility of significantly increased public funding for private religious schools. The bill, passed by both houses of New York State’s legislature in June, will enable at least some — and perhaps many — Orthodox children with special education…
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Ms. Rosenthal Goes to Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Jewish Federation is a long way from the State Department’s headquarters in Washington D.C.’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood. But Hannah Rosenthal, who has traveled the world in recent years as America’s top official tasked with combating international anti-Semitism, will soon be moving to the medium-sized Midwest city from the nation’s capital to face a…
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