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European Jews Condemn Toulouse Attack
The attack by an unidentified gunman on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France was condemned by Jewish leaders, who also warned against the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe. “Whoever did this is looking to target the Jewish community at its weakest point, its youth, in the hopes of spreading fear throughout the community,” said…
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Hotel Heir’s Murder Sparks Miami Feud
Initially, the brutal killing of Ben Novack Jr., heir to the founder of Miami Beach’s famed Fontainebleau Hotel, looked like the sordid story of a wealthy couple’s sexually charged marriage gone very wrong. A year later, the alleged murder of Novack Jr.’s mother was thrown into the mix. Then, in late February, the bizarrely tangled…
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Migron Is Symbol of Broken Promise
To almost every country in the world, all of Israel’s settlements on the occupied West Bank are officially illegal. Israel rejects this view but does consider one group of settlements illegal under its own laws. Yet, less than a handful of these unauthorized outposts have been evacuated since June 2004, when then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel…
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What if Santorum Wins? Mossad Push Back on Iran
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Forward opinion editor Gal Beckerman and news editor Larry Cohler-Esses about resolutions that were passed by state legislators in Florida and South Carolina calling for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Then, the group considers if Jewish Republicans will get behind Rick Santorum if he…
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‘Dislike’ This! Bibi’s Post Deleted by Army
When then IDF Spokesman Avi Benayahu told the Herzliya Conference that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered his unit to train soldiers to be “new media warriors,” he probably never imagined that a year later one of those keyboard warriors would brazenly block the prime minister on Facebook. Netanyahu has a number of Facebook pages:…
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God Gave Us Lemons for a Reason
Does every cloud have a silver lining? Or are plenty of them filled with rain that slickens the highway and jackknifes the tractor-trailer? There’s really no way to answer the question, because what if that tractor-trailer snarls traffic, making the lady 17 cars behind it late for her interview? And what if that means she…
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Two Babies Sickened by Circumcision Rite
Two Jewish infants in New Jersey were recently infected with — but survived — a herpes virus attributed to their ritual circumcisers’ use of an oral suctioning technique that is said to have caused the death of an infant in New York in September. Dr. Margaret Fisher, chair of pediatrics at Monmouth Medical Center, told…
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Grace Hightower De Niro, Dr. Diane Reidy Lagunes and Dr. Emily Sonnenblick Honored at American Cancer Society
“When I was getting ready [to play] Jake La Motta [in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 film “Raging Bull” and battling cancer and winning, it was nothing like the pressure of this speech,” Robert De Niro said before introducing his wife, Grace Hightower, one of three honorees at the March 1 American Cancer Society of New York’s…
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Shimon Peres Draws Oohs in La-La Land
When Jason Alexander, the veteran actor from the 1990s hit TV series “Seinfeld,” met Shimon Peres at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 8, it was, at first, as though Alexander were channeling his old character, George Costanza. “Happy Purim!” he exclaimed, immediately launching into a comedy routine. Then, commenting on the heavy security presence,…
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Publisher Will Fight German ‘Mein Kampf’ Ban
A British publisher is vowing to fight a Munich court’s decision to permanently ban his publication of excerpts of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” Peter McGee wanted to print excerpts last January in a 16-page insert to his German publication “Zeitungszeugen,” or “Newspaper Witnesses,” together with critical commentary from historians. The insert, one of three planned supplements,…
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Peter Novick, Historian, Dies at 77
Peter Novick argued that the Holocaust had been overemphasized in American culture and manipulated by prominent Jewish organizations to preclude any criticism of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians. He asserted that it was used to strengthen Jewish identity by making a long-defeated enemy central to that identity at precisely the point when Jews have gained…
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