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Even With Fame, Jason Lezak’s a ‘Mensch’
Jason Lezak, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, still keeps the medals he won as a teenager competing in the JCC Maccabi Games. Lezak, who is 36, has competed in the past three summer Olympics and is set to compete again this summer in London, as the oldest member on the American swim team. Even as…
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Driving the Diva
Video: Nate Lavey If her driving is anything to go by, Mindy Meyer is the quintessential Brooklynite. The Orthodox law student who’s running for state Senate in Brooklyn’s 21st District against incumbent Democrat Kevin Parker, weaves in and out of double-parked traffic on Avenue J in her Flatbush neighborhood, barely sparing the road a second…
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The Magenta Yenta, All the Young Hawks
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by the Forward’s Deputy Culture Editor, Naomi Zeveloff and intern Simi Lampert to discuss Mindy Meyer, a young candidate for a New York Senate seat who is attracting lots of attention for her unique style and [website][1]. Then, Naomi discusses her recent story about a group…
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Kosher Jewgrass, Country and Folk Performed by Mare Winningham and Friends
“We welcomed her with open arms. She came to shul regularly,” David Gaffney, rabbi at the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue, said of actress and singer-songwriter Mare Winningham, who had visited the synagogue in years past. We (the rabbi, his wife, my daughter and I) had just seen Winningham perform on July 16 in a…
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Blind Camper’s Case Spotlights Special Needs
Solomon Krishef was thrilled to learn that this summer he could go to his Jewish sleepaway camp for eight weeks – twice as long as the previous four summers. It was not to be for the Michigan teenager. During visiting day in the middle of the summer, his family says, the camp director told them…
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Mega-Donors Give Obama a Boost
President Obama’s re-election hopes received a major boost when two Jewish mega-donors ponied up a total of $3 million to pro-Democratic super political action committees. Qualcomm founder Irwin Mark Jacobs and Saban Capital Group Chairman and CEO Haim Saban, who had been on the fence about backing Obama’s re-election, made separate donations to the nominally…
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Abe George Seeks To Upend Hynes
Abe George seems an unlikely roadblock in Charles Hynes’s drive to a seventh term as Brooklyn’s district attorney. George, 33, has no heavy-hitting political backers, no name recognition and, so far, very little campaign money. He is the son of Indian immigrants in a city where no South Asian has ever won citywide or boroughwide…
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Penn State Scandal Hits Jewish Community
One unlikely venue for fallout from the Penn State University sex abuse scandal is the campus Hillel, for which now ousted university president Graham Spanier – the school’s first Jewish leader – was a fundraiser and vocal supporter. On Tuesday, the Penn State community was stunned when the NCAA levied a $60 million fine against…
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Learning Yiddish on the Farm
Video: Nate Lavey Goshen, the fabled Egyptian area that the ancient Israelites settled and farmed when famine struck the Holy Land, was so fertile, according to the Bible, that the Israelites multiplied at rates that made the Pharaohs afraid. It?s hard to see Goshen, N.Y., in the foothills of the Catskills, as the locus of…
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Land of Milk, Honey and Reality TV
There?s a lot of drama in Israel. That?s no surprise, of course, given the drama throughout the Middle East. Perhaps less expected is that there?s comedy, musicals and, as we?ll see late in July, reality, too. On July 26, CBS debuts ?3,? a reality TV show it describes as a ?relationship series in which three…
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Black Jews Gain Wider Acceptance
The ordination took place on a sun-drenched Sabbath, in a synagogue used many decades ago by Lithuanian Jews. But on June 23, it was 200 mostly black worshippers, many in brightly colored African dress, who were on their feet, eyes fixed on a procession of eight white-robed rabbis with ceremonial miters crowning their heads as…
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