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Oldest Knesset Guard Dog Retires
The Knesset’s oldest guard dog has retired. Kai, a 7-year-old Labrador retriever, was forced to leave his position after failing to pass a fitness test, Ynet reported. The dog had participated in a variety of security missions, including sniffing for bombs. He has lived in the Knesset Guard’s kennel since he was a puppy, according…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Crown Heights Today; Hasidic Klezmer
This week, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward editor Jane Eisner, opinion editor Gal Beckerman and staff writer Paul Berger to discuss race and economic relations in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights 20 years after riots shook the community. Then Forward contributor Binyomin Ginzburg calls in to discuss the soulful klezmer music of…
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Five Ways To Meet Your Future Mate
If you know me, and you are single, you have probably had the awkward experience of meeting someone who I thought would be just PERFECT for you. Someone from my temple or work, or some bald but very nice guy I met earlier that week in front of the post office. My husband says that…
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Why No One Talks About Black-Jewish Relations
Twenty years after the violent riots that raged through the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, the state of the black-Jewish relationship — a source of much anguish in the riot’s wake — has almost disappeared from the Jewish communal agenda. It is still debatable whether a local conflict that pitted Caribbean blacks against Hasidim of…
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In-Law Accuses Rabbi Pinto of Money Laundering
The father-in-law of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto has accused the prominent Sephardic kabbalist of money laundering, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. In documents filed in a Jerusalem court, Shlomo Ben Hamo, Argentina’s chief rabbi, alleged that his daughter and her husband, Pinto, had pressured him into serving as guarantor on the…
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Excerpt From Forward’s Coverage of the Riots
The marchers come up President from the corner of Utica Avenue — “the accident site,” as it has come to be known — where Gavin Cato was killed by the car from Rabbi Schneerson’s motorcade. They have just been listening to Al Sharpton and Sonny Carson — the Al Sharpton “of Tawana Brawley fame,” the…
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How Do We Talk to Our Children About Israel?
When I was a kid, starting from about the age of 7, I imagined that I would move to Israel. Obviously, I didn’t fully understand what “aliyah” really meant; I was just obsessed with the idea of the Jewish state. I plotted and planned, wrote short stories about an alter ego named Tamar who lived…
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August 26, 2011
100 Years Ago in The Forward Sarah Cohen, 18, was walking home from work on Manhattan’s Lower East Side when a thief accosted her, snatching her purse. The thief wasn’t fast enough, and Ms. Cohen managed to grab him. But along came another thief, apparently a friend of the first one, and grabbed the purse…
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‘Russian Dolls’ Gets Thumbs Down From Brighton Beach
Vulgar. Distasteful. Primitive. Ugly. These are just a few of the adjectives Russian speakers spat out in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn on August 12, the day after the premiere of Lifetime’s new reality show, “Russian Dolls.” But for all their feelings about the negative light in which the show cast them, some were…
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Living Apart in Crown Heights
Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood. But while hostilities and distrust between the Lubavitch and black communities may have dissipated or shifted, residents of…
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70 Years After Destruction, Memory of Lithuanian Community Lives in Diaspora
People from my grandfather’s hometown in Lithuania were known to be proud of their roots. It was said that if you asked a traveling Keidan Jew where he was from, he would puff up, thump his chest and say, “Me? I’m a Keidaner!” — so forcefully that outsiders gave them the Yiddish nickname “gribl in…
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