Some school bus drivers in Lakewood, N.J., are expressing their displeasure with having to work on Thanksgiving driving Orthodox Jewish students to school. About 200 bus drivers will work on the holiday – half the number of a regular school day – taking some 18,000 Orthodox students to private Jewish schools in Lakewood, according to…
In late October, a gang of 15 to 20 thugs armed with metal rods and clubs attacked a man on the street. They beat him, causing serious internal injuries, a head wound and cuts. And then they drove away in the commercial truck in which they came, leaving the man lying in a pool of…
Not being an avid soccer fan, I needed an article in the English language edition of the Israeli daily, Haaretz, to alert me to a new expression that has been making the rounds, i.e., a ?Jew goal.? As recently defined by Haaretz?s Anshel Pfeffer, a Jew goal is ?an attack on the goal in which…
Miriam Rosenbaum is not your typical yeshiva girl, though she is deeply devout and modest to a fault. The Princeton University senior is the first Orthodox woman to win a Rhodes Scholarship ? and she wants to use the honor to champion the education of Jewish girls. ?I hope that Orthodox girls realize they can…
Ryan Braun, the slugging outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers, was named the National League Most Valuable Player, making him the first Jewish ballplayer to win the award in nearly five decades. Braun, the son of an Israeli-born Jewish father and a Catholic mother, received 20 of 32 first-place votes and 388 points in voting announced…
Egypt’s government submitted its resignation to the country’s ruling military council on Monday, as the death toll in clashes between protesters and police rose to 24 since their onset on Friday. Later Monday, Al Jazeera reported that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces accepted the government’s offer to resign. The move followed the resignation…
Ronan Farrow, the over-achieving son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. The 23-year-old, who graduated college at 15 and already aced Yale Law School, will study international development at Oxford University in Britain. He’s now working as a special advisor for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. “Rhodes is…
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…
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…
An emotional Judy Gross recently pleaded with thousands of Jewish community leaders to help free her husband from a prison in Cuba, marking a public shift in what has been, up to now, a strategy of quiet diplomacy on his behalf. “Let the Cuban government know that the Jewish community wants Alan home,” Gross implored…
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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