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Looking Back: August 31, 2012
100 Years Ago 1912 The two young men who were arrested in Albany under the suspicion that they were wanted murderers “Lefty Louie” Rosenberg and Harry “Gyp the Blood” Horowitz are expected to be freed soon. The men are actually peddlers in the Albany area. District Attorney Charles Whitman had claimed that Rosenberg would be…
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Germany Debates Proposal To Protect Circumcision
A proposal to enshrine circumcision of male children as a protected procedure that Jews and Muslims could continue without fear of sanction faces an uncertain fate in Germany’s Bundestag, say close observers of German politics. The proposal heading to the parliament aims to calm a storm that erupted last May after a Cologne court ruled…
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Politics at Ben Gurion May Eliminate Politics in Class
In what many academics see as an ideological move against a left-leaning university department, Israel’s higher education authority is advancing a plan to stop politics courses at Ben Gurion University. The Politics and Government department at the Beersheba-based university had been criticized from the right for employing academics who espouse a liberal perspective. Two years…
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Middle East Hot Topics and Hospital for Joint Diseases Gala
Jack Jacobs and Colin Kahl Dish Reality at The Common Good “Middle East Hot Topics” Lunch at The Friars Club There were no funny punch lines in the Milton Berle Room at the Friars Club, where 70 guests gathered on September 20 for a lunch featuring retired Army colonel Jack Jacobs, recipient of the Congressional…
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German Cabinet Schedules Circumcision Amendment Debate
Germany’s Cabinet has scheduled a discussion on an amendment that would formally legalize ritual circumcision but place some restrictions on who could circumcise and how. The discussion was set for Oct. 10, the German paper Die Welt reported. To become law, the amendment needs to pass a vote in the Bundestag. Amendment 1631d to the…
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Philadelphia Jews Aren’t Changing Their Votes
In a classroom at a Jewish employment service in Center City Philadelphia, Naomi Mindlin is trying, for the first time in her life, to learn networking skills — a gateway, she believes, for finding a job in troubling times. The mother of two, who lives in Langhorne, Pa., is a retired modern dancer and freelance…
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Debate Watching in Florida; Federal Funds for Religious Colleges; Babs in Brooklyn
In this week’s podcast, fill-in host Paul Berger is joined by Forward staff writer Josh Nathan-Kazis who is currently reporting from Florida on how the Jewish community of South Florida is seeing the impending presidential election. Then, Forward editor Jane Eisner drops by to discuss how some religious colleges are using federal money to fund…
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Sexuality on Sesame Street
Elmo’s radio broke. He shook his furry head and banged on his toy. Elmo wanted to listen to music. He wanted to sing the ABCs, or a song about shapes and circles or fish in the sea. I was 25 years old when I first watched “Sesame Street.” Oh, I knew Bert and Ernie from…
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How Jewish College Uses Federal Funds To Grow
It was the first week of the new semester at Michigan Jewish Institute, a college of more than 2,000 students, nestled in the leafy Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield. But at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the classrooms were silent and the entrance to the college’s temporary home, an impressive $6 million brick-and-glass synagogue with a…
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After Scandal, Slow Start for Ethical Certification
Magen Tzedek, the kosher ethics certification program launched four years ago, has yet to certify its first food producer. In fact, Rabbi Morris Allen, the group’s program director, told the Forward that independent auditors only completed their initial audit of the project’s first potential candidate to receive the Magen Tzedek seal in August. And even…
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Missing Guests at Abbas Dinner
When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned American Jewish leaders in late September that Israel had only a short time left to make peace, a few key Jews weren’t there to hear the message. Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman didn’t show, although he had originally told organizers he would be there. Malcolm Hoenlein, the…
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