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Israeli Soldiers Get Un-Kosher Food on Passover
sraeli soldiers in the Kfir Brigade ate salami and matzah for their seder meal after a base chef heated up the real seder food inappropriately, rendering it unkosher. The infantry brigade returned to base from a mission at the start of Passover expecting a festive holiday meal, but the base chef had begun to heat…
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Titan of the Sea Meets Its Match
Nearly a century after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the stories about how those aboard fared during the ship’s final hours remain as fresh today as they were on the fateful night of April 14, 1912. The luxury ocean liner, helmed by Capt. Edward Smith, was carrying the fabulously wealthy and the steerage poor…
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Details of the Frightful Tragedy
This article was published in the Yiddish-language Forward on April 16, 1912. Sunday at 10:40 p.m., a large iceberg tore through the starboard hull of the Titanic. For half an hour the crew and engineers of the ship labored intensively to “heal the wound,” and plug the hole, but it wasn’t possible. And at around…
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Chabad ‘Likes’ Facebook, But Not for Girls
An Orthodox girls school’s recent decision to fine students $100 for using Facebook made national headlines. But there was nary a mention of the story on the popular Chabad website. And the news was nowhere to be found on the Facebook page or Twitter feed of Chabad-Lubavitch, the Hasidic sect with which the school, Beth…
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An Anthem for LGBT Youth
A New Jersey jury recently convicted 20-year-old Dharun Ravi of hate crimes for using a webcam to watch as his college roommate kissed another man. Days after the incident, the subject of the video stream, Tyler Clementi, jumped off the George Washington Bridge. Clementi’s tragic death was one of a recent spate of lesbian, gay,…
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Jews Stream Back to Germany
For decades after the Holocaust, many Jews harbored an almost instinctive aversion to things German. But today, tens of thousands of Israelis, Jews from the former Soviet Union and even many American Jews are actively choosing German citizenship. Sound unreal? It’s today’s reality. According to a study by Dr. Sima Salzberg of Bar-Ilan University, 100,000…
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Solving a Titanic Mystery, Surviving Passover Food
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Forward contributor Michael Hirsch and Forward managing editor Lil Swason about the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and the Forverts’ coverage of the event. Then, Devra Ferst, editor of the Forward’s food blog, stops by to give some helpful hints on how to…
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Supermarkets Battle Over Israeli Matzo
Psst! That 5-pound bundle of Streit’s matzo you just bought for $8.99 probably cost the store about $14.99. Your friendly neighborhood supermarket manager was willing to take the $6 hit just to lure you in so you’ll stock up on Manischewitz gefilte fish and Gefen dish detergent. For years, supermarkets have treated Passover matzo as…
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Social Issues Drive Jews To Back Obama
With the battle over the Jewish vote in full swing, a new poll suggests that Democrats have little reason for concern: Jews are firmly in President Obama’s corner. And the reason, the poll suggests, has nothing to do with Obama’s views on Israel or Iran. It is all about the economy and social justice. The…
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Obama Celebrates Message of Passover
President Obama is looking forward to “a good bowl of matzo ball soup,” at the fourth annual White House Seder on Friday. Obama sent out his Passover greeting on Thursday, in which he speaks not only about his love for Passover dishes, but also on the meaning of the exodus story and the search for…
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Columbia University Hosts Charlie Rose’s Interview With Claude Lanzmann
“I hate the word ‘Holocaust’!” declared Claude Lanzmann, director of the nine and a half hour 1985 epic “Shoah,” during a March 20 interview with Public Broadcasting Service interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose at Columbia University’s Maison Française.. “To which god [were] 1 500,000 Jewish children sacrificed — gassed or killed — during World…
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