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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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Christian Pro-Israel Group Stakes Claim on Right
Once a novelty, the shofar-blowing, hora-dancing Christian evangelicals are now an integral part of the pro-Israel advocacy scene. At its 5,000-strong national conference in Washington, Christians United for Israel, the large Christian-Zionist movement, made clear it is stepping up its activity on the two issues that now top the pro-Israel agenda: fighting efforts to delegitimize…
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Yivo and League for Yiddish Showcase “Other Zions: From Freeland to Yiddishland"
Yivo and League for Yiddish Showcase “Other Zions: From Freeland to Yiddishland” On July 6, it was a full house at the Center for Jewish History with the exhibition “Other Zions: From Freeland to Yiddishland,” sponsored by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Before the State of Israel became a reality, the Freeland League for…
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Nach Waxman Sells Passion for Food at Manhattan Cookbook Store
In the quiet moments before Kitchen Arts & Letters opens for the day, owner Nach Waxman unlocks the door for a visitor and apologizes. “I’m sorry for the disarray,” Waxman says, his white-bearded face smiling wryly beneath a Blue Bunny ice cream cap, his trademark suspenders secured in the fashion of a man at work…
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Orthodox Children Face Unchanging Milestones
For a blue-eyed 13-year-old named Yochanan, the lure of sleep-away camp this year is a religious ceremony at summer’s end. Yochanan will have a small bar mitzvah there in August, reading from the Torah in front of his bunkmates for the first time. A second, more formal ceremony will take place in September, in Brooklyn’s…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Eli Valley’s Cartoon; Parenting After Leiby Kletzky
Forward reporter Naomi Zeveloff is joined by artist-in-residence Eli Valley who has a new sci-fi inspired cartoon that pillories Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his views of American Jews. Then, Naomi speaks with opinion editor Gal Beckerman and columnist Lenore Skenazy about the killing of Leiby Kletzky and how it affects the way parents raise…
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