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Qaddafi’s Hatred of Jews Turned on Him
Crossing the Ras Ajdir border into Libya from Tunisia on October 24 and 25 required two attempts and three hours, and culminated with an instructive initiation into a post-revolution reality. The Libyan side felt like a scene from “Lord of the Flies”: gun-toting, barely uniformed teenagers attempting to enforce a semblance of authority; trucks roaming…
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Berman Beats Sherman in Endorsement Race
U.S. Rep. Howard Berman has lined up support from Democratic colleagues in the increasingly heated Los Angeles race with fellow Jewish Rep. Brad Sherman. Berman has the backing of nearly two-thirds of California’s Democratic congressional delegation, Politico reported. The web site said the 22 endorsements run the spectrum from ultra-liberals like Rep. Maxine Waters to…
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Unlikely Founder of Vilnius Jewish Library
Wyman Brent may be about the most unlikely person you could find to establish a new Jewish library in the Baltic nation of Lithuania. Brent is neither a scholar nor an intellectual. He doesn’t speak Lithuanian and isn’t even Jewish. He is a wiry, soft-spoken, long-haired atheist from California; the type of man who signs…
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Iran Only Year Away From Bomb: Barak
Iran is less than a year away from being unstoppable in its goal of producing a nuclear weapon, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with CNN released on Saturday. In an advance transcript of an interview to air on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” program on Sunday, Barak said Israel was focused on…
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Qaddafi’s Hatred of Jews Turned on Him
Crossing the Ras Ajdir border into Libya from Tunisia on October 24 and 25 required two attempts and three hours, and culminated with an instructive initiation into a post-revolution reality. The Libyan side felt like a scene from “Lord of the Flies”: gun-toting, barely uniformed teenagers attempting to enforce a semblance of authority; trucks roaming…
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Newsman Discovered Links to Jews
As Mark Whitaker was about to graduate Harvard, diploma and a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford in hand, his father gave him some memorable advice: ?Beware of what you ask for, because you might just get it.? The context here is important, as Whitaker relates in his fascinating new book, ?My Long Trip Home? (Simon &…
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‘Forgotten Bookmarks’ Between the Pages
You know how easily it happens (or happened, back in the day when people read actual books): You’d use your grandmother’s favorite chicken soup recipe or the only negative of the twins’ birth from the 1950s as a bookmark, then you’d get busy with the twins or the chicken soup, and you’d put down the…
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Women ‘Roar’ and Honor ‘Lions’
WOMEN ‘ROAR’ AND HONOR ‘LIONS’ AT UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK LION OF JUDAH LUNCHEON Sheila Birnbaum, head of Skadden Arps’ Mass Torts and Insurance Litigation Group, received the Karen Klitzman Award at this year’s UJA Federation of New York’s Lion of Judah luncheon at The Pierre on November 2. (The award is named for a…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: No Statehood ‘Tsunami’
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward editor Jane Eisner, Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman and Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff to discuss the fallout from the Palestinian’s statehood bid, which Ehud Barak once described as a potential “diplomatic tsunami.” Then, the group turns to the new funding models that have been proposed…
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Touro Under Scrutiny Over Israel Class
Touro College, a New York-based Jewish university, came under pointed questioning by curriculum experts after the Forward revealed that it granted academic credits for an online course put together by a pro-Israel advocacy group. Touro offered students credit for taking Israel Inside/Out, an online class cobbled together with materials like interviews with pro-Israel activists and…
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Basya Schechter Sculpts World Music
Singer Basya Schechter, who for many years has led the band Pharaoh?s Daughter and who just released ?Songs of Wonder? (Tzadik), a collection of Yiddish songs based on the poetry of Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, is having a moment. And for good reason. Schechter makes music that is both appealing and intriguing. As an…
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