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The Doors Are Open to All at Rabin Medical Center
The Doors Are Open to All at Rabin Medical Center in Israel Dinner “When a patient checks in, no one asks their religion [or] affiliation,” said Abraham “Barry” Cohen, chairman of the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center, in an address at the organization’s November 13 “The Best of New York Meets the Best of…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Why Israelis Dislike Americans
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward opinion editor Gal Beckerman and Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman to discuss why America’s foreign military aid to Israel is threatened by the Congressional super-committee’s failure to come to a debt deal. Then the group turns to a recent series of advertisements produced by the…
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Nude Photos Leaked From Dead Sea Shoot
Close-up pictures from a massive nude photo shoot orchestrated by celebrated artist Spencer Tunick have reportedly leaked online in recent days, in what shoot organizers claim was done against their wishes. In September, 1,200 male and female volunteers participated in the mass nude photograph at the Dead Sea, including men and women ranging from 20…
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All You Need to Tie the Knot Right
A wedding expo is, above all, an education in the do’s and don’t’s of tying the knot. And at My Big Fat Jewish Wedding Expo — a one-stop shop for all things matrimonial — these lessons were wrapped in layers of tradition. Dozens of vendors ringed the main banquet hall in Brooklyn’s Grand Prospect Hall,…
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Synagogue Hopes To Build Mosque’s Trust
When members of New York City’s West End Synagogue were recently disinvited at the 11th hour from a long-anticipated Friday gathering with Muslims at Harlem’s Masjid Aqsa, some involved in organizing the meeting feared that hard-line mosque members were behind the cancelation. But at the synagogue the next morning, the mosque’s imam, Souleimane Konate, showed…
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Alan Gross’s Wife Calls for More Pressure on Cuba
The wife of American contractor Alan Gross called for increased pressure on Congress and President Obama to get her husband released from a Cuban jail. Judy Gross spoke Monday at a protest on her husband’s behalf outside the Cuban Interests Section in Washington. The rally was organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater…
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U.N. Calls for Calm After Rockets Hit Israel
The United Nations International Force in Lebanon vowed Tuesday morning to ensure that the border remain calm, hours after four Katyusha rockets were fired into Israel. UNIFIL commanders held emergency meetings with representatives of the Israel Defense Forces and the Lebanese Army following the overnight attack. UNIFIL released a statement declaring that it had deployed…
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What I Dread This Hanukkah
Remember when the most annoying part of the holiday season was the fact that jack o’ lanterns had barely made it into pumpkin pies before the radio started playing “Jingle Bells”? For Jews it seems there’s something new to dread this holiday season, besides drowning in Christmas jingles and a barrage of Santa commercials: the…
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With Sharp Elbows, Simon Greer Pushes Ahead
If Simon Greer won’t have lunch with you, don’t take it personally. For that matter, don’t take it personally if he will. Greer, who will soon head the foundation funding much of the Jewish social justice sphere, has an unabashed attitude toward power. “I spent a lot of time building a relationship with [billionaire, liberal…
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When Even Challah Seems Haunted
What makes a home Jewish? I?m not talking about the discussions, the jokes, the smell of pickled fish. I?m talking about walking into, in this case, my ailing mother?s apartment in Skokie ? the town where the Nazis marched because it was sooo Jewish ? and wondering: How do you know a Jewish lady lives…
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Conservatives Grapple With Gay Wedding Rite
Having recognized gay rights with their 2006 acceptance of gay unions, Conservative rabbis are now wrestling with the issue of gay rites. The recent efforts of three leading rabbis to construct a kosher wedding ceremony for same-sex couples hews closely to the traditional Jewish heterosexual ceremony, in an effort, they say, to ensure that same-sex…
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