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Paper Owner Apologizes for Obama ‘Hit’ Column
The owner of an Atlanta Jewish newspaper has apologized for a column in which he discusses the possibility of Israel ordering the assassination of President Obama. The Secret Service says it is investigating and a parade of Jewish leaders quickly moved to denounce Andrew Adler, publisher and owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times. Adler wrote…
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Kars4Kids Charity Loses Big on Real Estate
A multimillion dollar nationwide advertising campaign featuring an inescapable radio jingle and a freckle-faced boy in a convertible has brought the Orthodox Jewish charity known as Kars4Kids more than 60,000 donated vehicles a year. Those gifts, worth $29 million, support Orthodox outreach to non-Orthodox Jews, including a fancy summer camp for Jewish children. But Kars4Kids…
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Jewish Airman Dies in Afghanistan
On his Facebook page, Matthew Seidler, Airman 1st Class, posted the lyrics to one of his favorite tunes, “Opportunity” by Australian singer Pete Murray. “Your coffee’s warm but your milk is sour / Life is short but you’re here to flower,” the lyrics state. “Dream yourself along another day / Never miss opportunity.” Those were…
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JINSA Leadership in Flux After Ouster
Torn by internal strife, a leading conservative Jewish organization known for its hawkish views is struggling to find its footing after firing a key staffer and losing prominent members of its advisory board. The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs recently terminated the second-highest-ranking staff member, who has been with the organization for more than…
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Bringing Real Bagels to the Motor City
Growing up Jewish in the suburbs of Chicago, I always harbored a bagel inferiority complex. The bagels I found at the grocery store and in the various bagel chains that sprouted in the 1980s and ’90s felt like impostors — swollen and tasteless and slathered with, of all ridiculous things, blueberry cream cheese. The bagels…
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Synagogue Attacks Have New Jersey on Edge
As Jews in some northern New Jersey communities made their way to synagogue last Shabbat, the scene was slightly different from the typical day of rest. Extra police cars were on patrol near synagogues. At Bnei Yeshurun in Teaneck, a new buzzer system had been installed. And at Ahavath Torah in Englewood, a phalanx of…
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U.S. Jewish Population Pegged at 6 Million
Two new independent studies have found that there are between 6.4 million and 6.6 million Jews living in the United States today, representing about 1.8% of the population. Though the studies used drastically different methodologies, they appear to point to a growing consensus on the number of Jews in America, a figure that has been…
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Hackers Shut Down El Al, Stock Exchange
Computer hackers disabled the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al websites. The attacks on Monday morning come after hackers over the last two weeks have released online the credit card details of thousands of Israelis and a day after Hamas called on hackers to attack Israeli sites. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s website recovered…
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Congressman Cut Off From Own Synagogue
Democrat Steve Cohen, the first Jewish congressman to represent a district in Tennessee, has lost a key constituency, the small Jewish community in Memphis, after the borders of his district were redrawn. Cohen’s Ninth District has been reshaped in a way that cut him off from most of the Jews living in Memphis. Even Cohen’s…
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Russian Jews Organize Against Iran
Sitting at the head of an expansive boardroom table at the luxury Setai hotel in Manhattan, Alexander Levin ponders the 300-square-foot room in Odessa, Ukraine, where he was raised. It is January 23, two days before Levin will address up to 600 guests at the United Nations in a ceremony organized by the Ukrainian and…
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A Fraught Journey To Judaism
I’ve spent most of my adult life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where the reigning deity is liberal politics, and in Miami Beach, where the locals worship sun-bronzed physical perfection. Not that there’s anything wrong with either one. But there came a point — amid an array of midlife disjunctions, including an empty…
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