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JCPA Delays Action on Campus Civil Rights
American Jewry’s primary umbrella group for addressing domestic concerns has backed off for now on trying to pass a controversial resolution warning Jewish organizations against using federal civil rights laws to “censor” perceived anti-Israel activities on campus. At its board meeting on October 24th, a task force of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs sent…
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Washington’s First Letter to Jews Is Lost
Just a little more than a year after George Washington became America’s first president, Levi Sheftall, a Jew from Savannah, wrote him a letter. Sheftall, president of Congregation Mickve Israel, congratulated Washington on behalf of his fellow Savannah Jews, who had high hopes for religious freedom in their new country. But as if to prove…
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Dad Says Ilan Grapel Is No Spy
In a conversation with Haaretz on Monday, the father of suspected Israeli spy Ilan Grapel said he hoped a deal between Israel and Egypt to secure his son’s release had in fact been signed, saying that he had not been given official word by Israeli officials. Earlier Monday, the Prime Minister’s Office indicated that Israel…
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Jewish Chaplains Get Memorial of Own
When the USS Dorchester, a U.S. Army troop ship carrying 900 soldiers and civilians, was attacked by the Germans in 1943, a rabbi, a Catholic priest and two Protestant ministers helped soldiers onto lifeboats and handed out life jackets, giving away their own as the ship sank off the coast of Greenland. The four chaplains…
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Wolf Kahn’s Palette Gets Brighter With Age
Wolf is at your door. At least it feels that way after the summer exhibit ?Wolf Kahn: Color & Consequence,? at the Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe gallery, in Manhattan?s Chelsea, and the September release of a revised edition of the definitive ?Wolf Kahn? by Justin Spring with Karen Wilkin and Louis Finkelstein. Kahn, born…
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Social Workers Help L.A. Synagogues
“A couple comes to meet with me,” Rabbi Morley Feinstein recounted, haltingly describing a difficult moment. “They’re senior citizens… extraordinarily caring, dynamic and wonderfully connected as volunteers in the community… sat in my office… said they could no longer afford the cost of synagogue membership, and they actually said to me, ‘We’ve had to think…
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Rosenberg Sons Revisit Secretive Past
Fiction and fact intersected dramatically when the real-life sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg made a rare joint public appearance for a screening and discussion of “Daniel,” a movie inspired by their parents’ infamous trial on conspiracy to commit espionage charges. During their 1951 trial, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Jewish New Yorkers and Communists, were…
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Lorraine Bracco, Penny Marshall and Dr. Andy Jagoda Share Stage
Lorraine Bracco, Penny Marshall and Dr. Andy Jagoda Share Stage at Brain Injury Gala “My father is from Poland. My mother is from Sarajevo,” Dr. Andy Jagoda told me at the Brain Injury Association of New York State’s Journey of Hope Gala, held on October 11. Jagoda, a recipient of BIANYS’s Champion of Hope Award,…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Shalit Deal Skeptics; College Kids on Occupy Wall St; Petitioning to Free Rubashkin
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward editor at large J.J. Goldberg to discuss why the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is sending out emails critical of the deal to free Gilad Shalit. Then, David A.M. Wilensky of the Jewish student magazine New Voices lays out why some…
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President Confuses Jews and Janitors, Or Does He?
It took a friend to bring to my attention President Obama?s recent and underreported slip of the tongue, made during an address to the Congressional Black Caucus on September 24, in which he confused the words ?janitor? and ?Jew.? Though mentioned on the Forward?s Shmooze blog, the media made scant mention of the incident for…
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Settler Turned Peace Activist Now Occupies Wall Street
At the Downtown Manhattan base camp of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, young Lubavitchers filter through the activist crowd, seeking Jews. But when one approached Kobi Skolnick, a 30-year-old Israeli with a heavy Hebrew accent, Skolnick lied. “No, I’m Palestinian!” he told the lulav-bearing Lubavitcher. Skolnick is, in fact, Jewish. And not only that…
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