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In London, Ottolenghi Has Got ‘Em Eating From His Hands
Ottolenghi. In London, the very name conjures up tantalizing mounds of meringues, appealing piles of brightly cooked vegetables and the gleaming, chic emporia containing foods that proudly bear the title. Households around the city and country feature his two cookbooks, “Ottolenghi” and “Plenty,” (published in America on March 23) with coffee tables and kitchens vying…
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URJ Names Rick Jacobs To Take Helm of Movement
The Union for Reform Judaism has designated a prominent congregational rabbi and critic of the URJ as its new president and the de facto leader of the Reform Jewish movement in North America. Rabbi Richard Jacobs, currently the senior rabbi at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, NY, will succeed Rabbi Eric Yoffie as president of…
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In the Search for an Alternative to God, One Rabbi Offers Some Answers
Greg Epstein looked a bit overwhelmed. The morning yoga session was over, and now he was helping a local folk singer get set to play during the potluck brunch, all the while welcoming the guests streaming into the new humanist community center in Harvard Square. And then the featured speaker arrived, a former NPR journalist…
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Reporters’ Roundtable: The Fogel Photos
Host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with editor Jane Eisner about the murder of five family members in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, the government’s release of the brutal crime scene photographs and the Forward’s decision not to publish those photos. Then Josh is joined Mary Jane Fine, who reported for the Forward from the Mets…
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Slain West Bank Israelis Mourned in New York Memorial
The two adults and three children murdered in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Itamar last week were killed not because they were settlers but because they were Jews, American Jewish leaders told a New York memorial service for members of the Fogel family Thursday. The hour-long service, held at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on New…
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Gay Community Faces Rift Over Cancellation of a Pro-Palestinian Fundraiser
They’ve long faced off on college campuses and in the media, and now Israel’s supporters and detractors are in a pitched battle for the hearts and minds of the gay and lesbian community. This fight bubbled over earlier in March when New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center canceled a pro-Palestinian group’s event…
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Commemoration Events for March 16 – March 23
March 16 remembrance . response . reform Presented by the Fashion Institute of Technology First year students in the Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design program will design and install an exhibition at FIT — remembrance . response . reform — to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Students will create display vignettes…
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The Triangle Fire: A Working Legacy
Watch a video tour of where the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took place 100 years ago. Chris Connor, a retired New York City fire marshal, discusses what went wrong on March 25, 1911, and the enduring legacy of the deadly fire: Produced by Gabrielle Birkner Edited by Nate Lavey
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Triangle Boss a Witness
Originally published in the Forverts, December 23, 1911 Isaac Harris, forced to give evidence on the witness stand, said that there had been five fires in the Triangle shop, and that he had given instructions to inspect the girls’ pocketbooks. Witnesses forget what they said right after the fire: Isaac Harris, from 342 W. 101st…
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A Wild, Inexplicable Mass Murder
Originally published in the Forverts, March 26, 1911 Few fire escapes, locked doors, crooked and narrow stairways, a shop crammed with machines — signs of criminal negligence that robbed 144 workers of their young lives. There was no reason; it was murder, a mass murder. The bosses of the Triangle Waist Company, with permission of…
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Revered as Business Guru, Rabbi Faces Questions About His Organization’s Finances
On the streets of Ashdod, a hardscrabble port city in Israel’s southern desert, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto is considered the local saint. Six middle-aged men sitting outside a cafe nodded with recognition when asked about the 37-year-old scion of Moroccan rabbinic royalty. “He’s an honored person here,” one said. Another man, hearing the kabbalist’s name,…
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