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Avodah and AJWS Will Close Popular Program
Two Jewish non-profits will soon close a popular social justice program aimed at Jews in their 20s and 30s. American Jewish World Service and Avodah announced on June 11th that they will discontinue their Pursue: Action for a Just World partnership at the end of 2012. The organizations said they are taking the move in…
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For Some, Halacha Makes Conceiving Tough
Rachel never had much of a problem conceiving children: one, two, three, four, five. But when it came to child No. 6, Rachel (who asked that we identify her by only a pseudonym) and her husband tried and tried. Five years passed, but no child came. “You have a frum issue,” Dr. Richard Grazi told…
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Israel Plans Softer Policy to Africans
Even as a high-profile round-up targets illegal African immigrants, the Israeli government may be laying the groundwork for a softer policy toward the estimated 60,000 undocumented newcomers whom lawmakers have branded “infiltrators” and a “cancer.” Independent human rights groups and academic experts say the government knows it cannot deport the vast majority of immigrants because…
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Nod to Change as Jacobs Takes URJ Reins
Rabbi Rick Jacobs designed the ceremony that installed him as president of the Union for Reform Judaism to broadcast his vision of what the Reform movement — the largest denomination in American Jewish life — should be. Rabbis and cantors led songs by Orthodox Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and by Reform folksinger Debbie Friedman at the…
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Keep Putin Out of Israel, ‘Halachic Infertility’
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with opinion editor Gal Beckerman about why Israel should cancel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit. Then, columnist J.J. Goldberg phones in to discuss a survey which reports that New York’s Jews are poorer, less educated and more Orthodox than 10 years ago. Finally, Forward fellow Naomi…
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Sex, Wine And Wisdom: “Dr.” Ruth Westheimer Sounds Off at A Not-So-Kosher Conversation
“In Judaism, sex is not a sin, but a mitzvah,” Ruth Westheimer declared in a lecture sponsored by American Friends of Reuth, held on May 31 at Congregation Edmond J. Safra. “A rabbi has to have sex every day, a salesman every seven days. The frequency of sex depends on the profession,” Westheimer said. Westheimer…
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Changing Face of New York Jewry
In 2012, the average New York Jew looks a little less like Jerry Seinfeld and a little more like Tevye the Milkman. New York’s Jews are poorer, less educated and more religious than they were 10 years ago, according to a landmark new study of the city’s Jewish population. They’re also less liberal: More than…
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Looking Back: June 22, 2012
100 Years Ago in the Forward A number of rabbis have chimed in on the side of the butchers in the ongoing kosher meat strike that Jewish women have organized in New York. These rabbinical God botherers have firmly cast their vote in favor of the blood-sucking meat trust and against poor Jewish women and…
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School Test Urges Jewish Girls To Shun Arabs
A primer for an Israeli school civics exam that was administered Monday suggested as an answer to a practice question that “the association of Jewish girls with Arabs is liable to undermine their right to life and security.” The book, published by Reches Educational Projects, is one of many such volumes pupils use to prepare…
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Sephardi Spices in the Sultan’s Shadow
Selin Rozanes’s family, like most Sephardim in Turkey, likely came to the country in the late 15th century, when Jews were expelled from Spain. Sultan Bayezid II welcomed these exiled Jews into the Ottoman Empire at the time, where they would end up living, and cooking, alongside native Turks. Today, Rozanes helps to preserve the…
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Bakers Bound by Two Babkas
On my way to Ovenly, a former wholesale-only bakery that opened a retail shop in Brooklyn at the end of May, co-owner Erin Patinkin texted me to say she was out replenishing the shop’s stock of bananas and would return shortly. When I arrived, a team of four bakers was stationed in the Ovenly kitchen,…
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