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Couch Potato to ‘Drop Dead Healthy’
During a recent visit to a cafe on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, A.J. Jacobs is doing all the things he rails against in his latest book. Instead of eating slowly and mindfully, the journalist and author is juggling a laptop, phone and fork while wolfing down kale and quinoa salads. He isn’t using his portion-control…
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Dust-Up on Iran, Hebrew Charter Schools
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Forward editor Jane Eisner about the youth vote in the 2012 election. Then, Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman and Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff to discuss their investigation into the sponsors of state-funded Hebrew-language charter schools in the United States and their Israel advocacy agenda. Finally, Forward…
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Chicago Hillel Feud Gets Messier
A group of Jewish professors at the University of Chicago is drawing up battle lines against the city’s Jewish federation in response to the federation’s firing of the entire leadership of the school’s campus Hillel. Meanwhile, students who are caught in the middle are seeking to avoid taking sides. What began as a local budgeting…
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Jewish School Teacher Hit With Child Porn Charge
A New York-area Jewish school teacher and summer camp counselor has been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography. FBI agents on May 1 raided the Manhattan apartment of Evan Zauder, where they discovered on his computer hundreds of images and videos of boys, some as young as 7, engaged in sex acts. Zauder, 26,…
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JCPA Pressured To Push Title VI Fight
With Jewish leaders poised to call for a restrained approach to the use of federal civil rights law for disputes on college campuses, one group is pushing the community to take a more aggressive role toward Jewish student complaints. The Jewish Community Relations Council of Northern New Jersey has submitted a proposal to the Jewish…
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Hadassah Dumps Executive Who Accused Leaders
Hadassah, the women’s Zionist group, has ended its relationship with Larry Blum, the chief operating officer whose allegations led to an investigation of top Hadassah executive board members. Blum had been on administrative leave since November amid a separate investigation into allegations that he misused his corporate credit card. Blum’s departure was confirmed by Hadassah….
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Benzion Netanyahu, Scholar Who Saw Lessons in History
Benzion Netanyahu, the father of Israel’s prime minister, who died on April 30 at the age of 102, belonged to that generation of Jewish scholars who believed that what they studied, wrote about and taught had an importance that transcended academic interests. These learned individuals imagined that what they had discovered not only shed light…
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From The YIVO Archives: The Unknown Memoir of Tuvia Bielski
On April 19, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research launched its “Treasures From the YIVO Archives” series at the Center for Jewish History. This first event included a panel discussion of — and readings from — a recently rediscovered memoir by Tuvia Bielski, leader of the Bielski partisans. Given to YIVO in 1955, the unsigned,…
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Explosive Dust-Up Over Iran Policy
On a sunny Sunday afternoon in late April, Israel put its raucous, divided political culture on full exhibition in New York for a day — and New York did not like what it saw. The occasion was the first-ever Jerusalem Post Conference, an all-day public seminar on Israeli policy, held on April 29 at Manhattan’s…
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Muslim Students: Radicals or Partners?
In their cautious dialogue with American Muslims, national Jewish groups have long steered clear of the Muslim Students Association, one of the biggest Muslim groups in the country and one that many Jewish communal officials see as extremist. But that red line is increasingly being ignored by Jewish students at colleges across the country, where…
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Love It. Fear It. Smear It.
You walk into the restaurant, and there, at the center of each table, is a help-yourself container of cocaine. Well, Jewish cocaine. Schmaltz. “People get a little confused,” explained David Zimmerman, owner of the uber-Jewish eatery Sammy’s Roumanian Steak House, on New York City’s Lower East Side. That is, diners understand the bowl of pickles…
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