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American Enclave Stands Up to Extremists
Little Na’ama Margolese is not the first Israeli child to be harassed on her way to school by members of a fundamentalist ultra-Orthodox sect who resent her presence in or around their neighborhood. But the 8-year-old girl is the first to have her plight featured on Israeli television and turned into an international news story….
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Jewish Day Care Is Missing Link
I recently attended a workshop for parents in Brooklyn on how to choose a preschool. I’ll spare you my rant about how it’s insane that we need a workshop on this. But there I sat, along with a dozen other parents in our semicircle, dutifully taking notes on things like the Montessori and Reggio Emilia…
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Chinese for Christmas: DIY Dumplings Video
As a person of Chinese and Jewish heritage, I have inherited two wonderful, though often divergent culinary traditions. My favorite moment in our kitchen is when the two traditions converge on Christmas Eve at our annual Dumplings of the World Festival. We gather with family friends to make steamed barbecue chicken buns, potstickers, samosas, empanadas…
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Reuth Medical Center — An Oasis of Caregiving
“Nice to know that [in Israel] we are not alone,” said Merav Mandelbaum, chairman of the board of directors of Reuth Israel at the December 12 Reuth fundraiser, which was held at Sotheby’s in Manhattan. The event was co-chaired by Reuth board members Mel Atlas and Jill Kaufman. Following a private viewing of the exhibit…
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Private Owner of Washington’s Letter
Richard Morgenstern just wants to be left alone. But when you are the multimillionaire owner of one of the most important documents in American Jewish history — George Washington’s Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, R.I. — avoiding the limelight is not easy. Especially when that document disappeared from public view 10 years ago…
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Israeli Circumcision Experts Head to Africa
When hundreds of thousands of immigrants flocked to Israel from the Former Soviet Union, they never dreamed that their absorption process could prove a missing link in a massive plan to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa. At the height of the wave of arrivals in the 1990s, Israeli doctors came face to face with a huge…
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JWA’s Top 10 Moments of the Year
Jewish Women’s Archive’s Jewesses With Attitude blog, which crossposts regularly with The Sisterhood, counted down the top 10 moments for Jewish women in 2011. What do you think of the list? What moments should have been on it? Let us know in the comments section below. 10. We celebrated the 40th anniversary of “Our Bodies,…
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Maynard Wishner Embodied Yiddishkeit
The Jewish community lost a towering figure with the December 19 death, at age 88, of Maynard Wishner. From his early years as a child prodigy in Chicago’s Yiddish Theater to his later years as president of several prominent national Jewish organizations, including the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, and the…
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The Hanukkah Bush and Christmas Dreidel
I’m a cynical Jew with goyish tendencies. With unabashed intemperance, I hedonistically succumb to bacon wrapped shrimp, afternoon noshes on Yom Kippur, unleavened naan bread rather than (the cardboard better known as) matzo on Pesach, and perhaps a Cadbury Easter cream egg or two during Lent. I’ve got no tsimmis in my intestines and no…
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Bernie Goetz’s Shooting Victim Found Dead
A man who was shot and wounded by New York subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz was reportedly found dead in a suspected suicide, 27 years to the day since the famous incident. James Ramseur, now 45, was found in his room in a seedy Bronx motel with two empty bottles of pills by his side, the…
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Song, Dance and Gourmet Food at Food Allergy Initiative Ball
Song, Dance and Gourmet Food Under a “Chuppah” Tent at Food Allergy Initiative Ball “Fourteen years ago, six parents met in a midtown office. We did not know each other, but we had one thing in common: We all had children who could die from food allergies,” gala dinner co-chair Sharyn Mann said on December…
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