Pro-Palestinian Student Activists Plan First National Conference
Pro-Palestinian student activists are planning a national conference this month that they hope will bring new coordination and potency to the anti-Israel movement on campus.
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One People Under a Sukkah
If I have one wish for Sukkot, my favorite Jewish holiday, it’s this: no more plastic fruit. Each year, Jewish people are commanded to fulfill the mitzvah of building a sukkah — a temporary shelter in which they eat (and sometimes sleep) throughout the weeklong holiday, which this year occurs from October 12 to 19….
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Kosher Meat Still Slaughtered Inhumanely
Agriprocessors’ 2008 kosher slaughter scandal provoked solemn vows of reform among producers of glatt kosher meat in the U.S. But despite some industry improvements, America’s leading kosher certification authority continues to authorize the sale of millions of pounds of glatt kosher beef slaughtered by means that animal welfare experts condemn as inhumane, a Forward investigation…
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Disputed Practice Persists at Iowa Plant
Practices at the glatt kosher Iowa slaughterhouse once home to the scandal-ridden Agriprocessors meatpacking firm are improving, observers and plant operators say. But some techniques employed at the plant continue to draw criticism from activists. Agriprocessors, once the country’s largest kosher slaughter operation, went bankrupt in the wake of a 2008 immigration raid at its…
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Jews and Latinos Seek Common Ground
It was billed as a broad coming together of two of Los Angeles’s most important ethnic communities. But percolating underneath the closed-door sessions and the concluding public declarations of common cause on such issues as immigration, racism and anti-Semitism at a recent “summit” between local Jewish and Latino groups was a more immediate issue: the…
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Weiner Costumes Selling Fast for Halloween
If New Yorkers thought they got rid of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner back in June, they better think again. The sexting congressman is back to haunt the city. Or at least its Halloween parties. The Weiner costume is a big seller for Halloween at Ricky’s NYC, purveyor of all things for the spooky season. Dubbed…
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Settlers Attack Israeli Army Patrol
Dozens of Jewish settlers surrounded an IDF patrol vehicle on Wednesday evening near the Shilo settlement, setting up roadblocks and physically assaulting IDF soldiers. The incident began after rumors circulated that the Gal Yosef illegal outpost is about to be evacuated. At approximately 9 P.M. the settlers erected roadblocks and blocked the entrance to the…
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‘Boardwalk Empire” Star Steve Buscemi Co-hosts Reel Works Gala
HBO “Boardwalk Empire” Star Steve Buscemi Co-hosts Reel Works Gala A dapper Steve Buscemi, who portrays corrupt city official Enoch “Nucky” Thompson in HBO’s luminous series “Boardwalk Empire,” and his wife, artist, filmmaker and choreographer Jo Andres, faced the photographers with grace as hosts of the 10th anniversary gala benefit of Reel Works Teen Filmmaking,…
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Reporters Roundtable: Obama and the Jews; Occupy Wall St.
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman to talk about President Obama’s Jewish outreach. Then Josh is joined by web producer Nate Lavey and Ezra Glinter, the editor of the Forward’s Arty Semite blog, to discuss the ongoing Occupy Wall St. protests and attempts to hold Jewish services…
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Alan van Capelle Named to Lead Social Justice Group
Alan van Capelle, a well-connected political activist with roots in the labor and gay and lesbian rights movements, will become president and CEO of the recently merged Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice, the group announced October 3. Van Capelle, 36, will assume leadership of the organization in January 2012. JFSJ, which has…
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Lost Memories
Maybe you’ve had this experience: One day, you’re going about your business and spot a mundane object. In my case, it’s a bowl of hard candies. And there’s something about this object that moves you in an unexpected way. All of a sudden, that bowl of candy stands for more than a sweet snack. It…
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