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Jewish Funds for Justice Loses Three Top Leaders
The Jewish Funds for Justice, a leading American Jewish organization focused on domestic economic and social policy, is losing three of its top executives just as it works to broaden its public profile. Despite the departure of CEO Simon Greer and two key aides, the group insists it will push ahead with ambitious expansion plans….
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Egg Creams Make a Comeback
New York is having an egg cream revival — again. That thought occurred to me in July, while parked on a counter stool at Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, in Carroll Gardens, sipping the fizzy drink made from chocolate syrup, frosty milk and seltzer. Brooklyn Farmacy, which is fittingly housed in an actual former pharmacy,…
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New Index Ranks Top Israeli Beaches
The waves that come crashing into Tel Aviv’s Gordon Beach are usually inviting. But this summer, they’re repugnant. On July 11, for the third time since the bathing season began in May, Israel’s Health Ministry declared the water polluted, reporting traces of sewage and warning the public not to enter the water. If you’re setting…
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U.S. Critics of Islam Vow To Continue Activism After Oslo
Leading anti-Muslim voices in the United States said that they have no plans to adjust their activities or rhetoric, despite claims that their writing and political outlook provided sustenance for the alleged perpetrator of the terror attacks in and around Oslo. Anders Breivik, who was detained near the Norwegian capital on an island where at…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Israelis Protest Rent; Debating Peoplehood; Weiner’s District
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by opinion editor Gal Beckerman, Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff and staff writer Nathan Guttman to discuss the rent protests that are shaking Israel and the role these protest might play in Israeli politics. Then the group is joined by Daniel Septimus, the CEO and publisher of…
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‘Stroller March’ Protests Hit Israel
Thousands of people gathered in 16 locations across Israel Thursday, in what has been dubbed “the strollers march,” to protest the high costs of raising a family. Parents marched with their children in simultaneous protests in Tel Aviv, Rishon Letzion, Holon, Yehud, Modi’in, Ashdod, Sderot, Ra’anana, Nes Tziona, Rehovot and Be’er Sheva. A similar march…
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American Cadets Visit Auschwitz in Search of Answers
In an upstairs room at the only remaining synagogue in this town, 37 miles west of Krakow, 13 future American military officers wrestled with ethical questions in the actual shadow of Auschwitz. Clad in jeans and T-shirts, the students from West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy and the Honors Program of…
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Author Janet Reitman Takes Look ‘Inside Scientology’
Though Scientology is a religion according to the United States government, to others it is a corporation, even a cult. Once best known for its famous followers — Tom Cruise and John Travolta among them — today Scientology is more noted for lawsuits and allegations by former members of censorship and extreme punishments. Janet Reitman,…
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Yid Lit: Janet Reitman
Though Scientology is a religion according to the United States government, to others it is a corporation, even a cult. Once best known for its famous followers — Tom Cruise and John Travolta among them — today Scientology is more noted for lawsuits and allegations by former members of censorship and extreme punishments. Janet Reitman,…
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Hyman Bookbinder, ‘Passionate Moderate,’ Dies at 95
Hyman Bookbinder, the legendary longtime Washington representative of the American Jewish Committee who died July 21, was the most passionate moderate I have ever known. Fair and intense, he was fierce in his convictions, but equally committed to civility and decency. I first met Bookie, who was 95 at the time of his death, when…
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As Chefs Become More Observant, Kosher Menus Go Gourmet
Duck leg confit served with white bean cassoulet. House-made lamb bacon. Mexican-inflected California cuisine. Not the offerings you would have expected at a kosher restaurant 20 years ago, perhaps not even a decade ago. But a handful of high end, innovative kosher restaurants, primarily in the gastronomic capitals of New York and California, have sprouted…
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